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Spam Prevention without CAPTCHA Images
The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit offers a control that reduces spam on web logs and forums without requiring users to enter a CAPTCHA.
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MSXML and Internet Explorer
A new version of IE has been released, and with it more confusion about which is the right version of MSXML. Adam Wiener clarifies the situation.
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Oracle Whitepaper on Benefits of .NET Introp
As part of Oracle's Middleware Fusion announcements last week, Oracle has published a whitepaper on the benefits and techniques for interoperability with .NET for software projects using Java or any of Oracle's products.
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Preventing SQL Injection Attacks in .NET Applications
Back in September InfoQ reported on Michael Sutton's alarming study of SQL injection vulnerabilities. Fortunately Scott Guthrie shows us that preventing most of them in .NET is not that hard.
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Collection Initializers in C# 3.0
What is a Collection? While merely academic in earlier versions, this seemingly innocent question has important ramifications in C# 3.0.
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Record and Playback Registry Changes
Jon Galloway has released a tool that allows developers to record and playback registry changes.
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Adobe Releases Flash Player Beta for Linux
Adobe has recently released a beta of Flash Player 9 for Linux. This allows Linux users to view sites that make heavy use of Flash like YouTube, Yahoo Maps Beta, and InfoQ's own Flash based interviews and presentations.
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Interop using OpenXML Spreadsheet Markup Language
OpenXML is a new standard useful for transfering data across process boundaries in a heterogenous environment. By using XML as a common interoperability technology, when someone wants to move data from one type of system to another, that will be relatively easy to accomplish. The licensing mechanism is completely open, and the documentation is rich.
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Upgrading SQL Server - xp_execresultset
SQL Server 2000 had a useful, though undocumented, function called xp_execresultset. Unfortunately for those currently using it, SQL Server 2005 has dropped this feature.
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RubyCLR Creator to Join Microsoft
John Lam, the creator of RubyCLR, has accepted a position at Microsoft. While he hasn't yet revealed his new duties, he has stated that he will not leave the Ruby community.
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ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 released today
Today the Microsoft ASP.NET team announced the released of ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1. There are many changes from the previously released builds and announced support for the Safari web browser. An exciting additional note is promised support for a source modification license.
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Unit Testing with VS Team System - A First Glance (Updated)
A brief look at the unit testing features in Visual Studio Team System.
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InfoQ Video: Architecting Toronto.com with .NET Casestudy
Toronto.Com attracts over 700,000 unique visitors per month, and offers comprehensive and searchable access to business and event listings. Originally built in 1997, the previous J2EE foundation for the site was found hard to evolve in the face of new requirements. In this presentation, Scott talks about how the site was re-architected to .NET 2.0.
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Things to know about Windows Workflow Foundation
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications. Harry Pierson delves into the details of WF in a recent blog post. Update: Paul Andrew responds on his blog with "Ten Reasons why WF is not a Toy".
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Agile at Microsoft: Developing XML Notepad
InfoQ had the opportunity to interview Chris Lovett of Microsoft's XML team regarding XML Notepad and its development process. XMLNotepad is a free XML editor written in C# with features like a search tool that supports RegEx and XPath, an XSLT transformation results view, and a schema validator. The interview is about software development processes used to build the product.