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Q&A with Miguel "Mono Man" De Icaza

Miguel De Icaza has been a major mover of Mono, the open-source framework for .NET since the get-go. These days he shepherds Mono along from within Novell Inc. At Novell's BrainShare conference, he discussed the latest doings with writer Paul Ferrill.

2006-04-07

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Getting Started with Master Pages and Themes

It seems that there is both excitement and confusion surrounding Master Pages and Themes. A big part of the problem is that they always seem to be mentioned in the same breath – like I just did. The reality is that they are two separate but equally important technologies. Each has its own function in ASP.NET but when you use these two technologies together, you get a site design that is amazingly versatile, easy-to-use, and easy-to-adapt. ASP.NET 2.0 provides a whole host of improvements to your web development experience but, in my opinion, these two technologies represent the single biggest reason to migrate your sites to this new platform. Let's take a look at each of these technologies in turn.

2006-04-06

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Securing Your WCF Service

In this article I will show you how you can implement security on a WCF service. There are many options and extensibility points for implementing security in WCF. You can also use specific products, such as the Windows 2003 Server Authorization Manager, together with WCF to implement the authorization requirements of a solution. Out of the box, WCF supports Windows credentials, Username Tokens and X.509 Digital Certificates as security credentials.

2006-04-03

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SSIS: Using InfoPath XML Files in SSIS XMLSource Adapter

InfoPath forms can be saved to XML, these XML Files can later be used in SSIS XMLSource adapter to pull out the data in tables and columns. However, there are some common problems you may meet in these scenarios. This article describes how to work around these potential problems. The issues mentioned in this article is not only specific to InfoPath files, it can also be referenced in other similar situations as well.

2006-03-31

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