Cooking with C#, Part 2 -- Suppose you need to examine the HTML from a remote web server to pluck out items of interest, or perhaps you'd like to secure exclusive write access to a shared resource while allowing multiple threads to still read from it. You can achieve both goals by following these recipes from C# Cookbook.
Finalists for the 2004 Jolt Awards -- Software Development magazine recently announced the finalists for the 14th annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards. Among the finalists are java.net and O'Reilly Network in the category of "Websites and Developer Networks," and Head First Java and Programming .NET Windows Applications in the "Books--Technical" category. The awards ceremony will take place on March 17 during SD West 2004.
Cooking with C# -- Learn how to convert a string returned as a Byte[ ] back into a string, and how to handle an exception that occurs within a method invoked via reflection, in these sample recipes from O'Reilly's recently released C# Cookbook.
Safari Gets Bigger and Better -- There are now more than 2,000 books from the industry's leading technical publishers available on Safari Bookshelf. As the library grows, so does its functionality: searches are powerfully precise and as broad or specific as you wish; and now, with a Safari Max subscription, you can download chapters to read offline. Safari will help you save time, reduce errors, keep current, and save more money than ever with up to 35% off print copies of your favorite books. If you haven't
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Cooking
with ADO.NET, Part 2 -- Learn how to create
and then synchronize a master-detail pair of DataGrid controls, as well as how to
improve performance when a user pages through a large result set in a data grid,
in these sample recipes from ADO.NET Cookbook.
Developing Smartphone Apps -- Microsoft recently announced support for the .NET CF in the new Smartphone 2003. Developing for the Smartphone is not the same as developing for the Pocket PC, so Wei-Meng Lee explains the UI differences between the two, and gives an overview of the controls supported in the Smartphone platform. Dig deeper with Wei-Meng in his tutorial at ETech 2004: Developing Smartphone Applications with the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework.
Cooking with ADO.NET -- Learn how to asynchronously update data on a database, protect login credentials during network transmissions, and enforce a business rule with column expressions, in these sample recipes from ADO.NET Cookbook.
Longhorn
SDK Annotations -- Working closely with Microsoft,
O'Reilly has seized upon a new feature of Longhorn that allows third
parties to use RSS feeds to enhance the Longhorn SDK docs. Ian Griffiths
leads the way with the first Microsoft-recommended third-party annotations
to Longhorn documentation. Ian is a coauthor of .NET Windows Forms
in a Nutshell.
Cooking with Active Directory -- Try out these two new recipes--the first on finding the domain controllers that are acting as one of the FSMO roles, and the second on determining the last time a user logged into a domain--from O'Reilly's Active Directory Cookbook.
Separating the Wheat from the Chaff -- In this asp.netPRO book
review, Mike Riley
writes that the In a Nutshell approach and easy-reference organization of
ASP.NET in a
Nutshell, 2nd Edition
make it a book any serious ASP.NET developer should buy.
Enhancing
ASP.NET Pages with JavaScript -- Matthew MacDonald
shows you how to use JavaScript in an ASP.NET web page to perform three
common tasks: showing a pop-up window, changing control focus, and handling
frame navigation. Matthew is a coauthor of ASP.NET in a
Nutshell, 2nd Edition.
