ASP.NET provides a number of ways to maintain user state the most powerful of which is session state. This article takes an in-depth look at designing and deploying high-performance scalable secure session solutions and presents best practices for bot...

The Heartland Developers Conference the premier regional .NET developer conference features two full days of sessions spread over two tracks Center Stage and Behind the Curtain. Get more information and register now....

An access page to MSDN Forums on the Visual Studio 2005 Developer Center....

A look at the technical details behind how the My feature exposes access to .NET Framework functionality and items within a project. This article is not a primer on how to use the My feature but rather delves into how it works....

Shows you a way to implement a Microsoft Word-like object model for your own .NET Framework application following the Model-View-Controller design pattern....

The Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WinFX Beta 1 provides developers with support for building WinFX applications using Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2005....

Jamie MacLennan shows some advanced data mining technology in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services. See examples of data mining-powered applications plus an overview of how to use SQL Server 2005 tools to create and explore data mining models....

In his first installment of DIY Tech with Tony Northrup Tony shows you how you can install X10 devices to control your lights....

The DecimalTexBox control is a text box that allows only decimal values as input and formats the text to display the decimal separators automatically. This sample shows how to handle input keys to validate the input and format the output text....

Get one hundred and one samples in both Visual Basic and C featuring many of the new features available with Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0....

In this column Microsoft Visual C Architect Stan Lippman continues his discussion of templates in C CLI....

In this month s C at Work column in MSDN Magazine Paul DiLascia answers questions about dialog templates and regular expressions....

Are you creating the same kind of tired applications that you have been building for the last 5-10 years If so its time for you to experience what the latest advances in Visual Basic 2005. Sign up now for this free roadshow event with Brian Randell....

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Join developers at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2005 where the next waves of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office System developer capabilities will be unveiled....