By Kent Sharkey on 5/14/2008 4:30 PM

The new ASP.NET MVC framework provides developers with an alternative to the traditional WebForm model. It enables developers to more easily create highly testable Web sites with clean URLs and structure.

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By Kent Sharkey on 5/2/2008 2:14 PM

You frequently need to store important information in your application's configuration files, such as connection strings, user IDs or paths to files. Therefore, it would be a good idea to secure these files — or at least the sections needing security — to prevent unauthorized access. With Visual Studio 2005 and above, you can encrypt the contents of your configuration file — either from the command-line or your own code — and the resulting configuration file works normally.

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By Kent Sharkey on 5/2/2008 2:09 PM

While many developers are comfortable creating Web sites with ASP.NET or other technologies, users continually want more responsive applications. Silverlight is a new technology from Microsoft that attempts to bridge the gap between the reach of a Web application, and the responsiveness of a Windows application.

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By admin on 2008-03-28 05:09:13Z

The latest version of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework launched on Feb 27, 2008. Since then, there have been numerous articles and presentations to showcase the new features, and developers will feel the pressure to immediately install the new release and get developing using the latest features. What's in the new version, and is it safe to make the leap now?

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