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ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles, Forms Authentication, and Security Resources
Another great, extensive post by Scott Guthrie. We have already done work with the ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Roles, both in Winforms and Webforms, but I sure wish I had this list of resources when I started !
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Patterns & Practices Security Training Modules
J.D. Meier's (from the MS Patters Practices PAG team) blog entry points to some short and useful security videos given by Keith Brown.
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Free Online SQL2005 Courses
You can now take online SQL Server 2005 courses for free - here.
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In Case You Missed it - TechEd Europe has been moved and reformatted
Since 1999, I haved looked forward to attending and speaking at the annual TechEd EMEA at the beginning of July. It normally took place either in Barcelona or Amsterdam - both fun places to visit. Well, the format of the show is being changed and moved to November. The official announcement is here. You can read Hans' take on it over here.
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Step-By-Step Guide to Converting Web Projects from VS 2002/2003 to VS 2005
Here is a nice article on upgrading your ASP.NET 1.1 / VS 2003 web sites and applications to ASP.NET 2.0 / VS 2005
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8 Free eBooks from APress
[From Ohad]
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Speaking at Seattle .NET Developers Association
I am happy to be back in Redmond and speaking again at next week's meeting of the Seattle .NET Developers Association. I'll be doing a presentation "Designing Data Access Components and Passing the Data Through the Tiers". I have given variations of this session in the past, but this time I will also be incorporating some new ideas and lessons learned from a distributed architecture framework that we have been developing.
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ReportViewer: A great control - but beware...
One of the coolest controls in VS 2005 is the ReportViewer control. It is a powerful control for previewing, printing, and exporting (XLS or PDF) reports based on data in your database. However, this control is something of weird animal - it is not part of the .NET framework, but is an add-on control that is part of Visual Studio. This fact results in 2 main issues:
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More Interview Segments on Upgrading to VB.NET and ADO.NET
In addition to the first segment that I mentioned was posted last month, there are now a total of 4 segments of that interview available here for your listening pleasure - let me know what you think!
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ASP.NET Product Team in Israel Next Month
Yosi Taguri from MS Israel posts that the ASP.NET product team will be visiting Israel next month. There will be a public seminar on March 13th (see Yosi's post for the agenda). There will also be an opportunity for a few teams to work directly with the ASP.NET team on migration their existing 1.1 applications to 2.0. Contact Yosi (yosit@microsoft.com) if you think you have a candidate project.
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More Info on the Soon-To-Be-Released ASP.NET Project Model Update
Back in December, I mentioned (with great excitement) an effort within the ASP.NET team to return to VS 2005, the ASP.NET web project model that we knew and loved from VS 2003. Alot of progress has been made on this effort - you read all of the details in this post by Scott Guthrie himself.