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The folks at NetBlender have put together a short screencast that shows their winning entry. They highlight the use of Virtual Earth and how it is synchronized with the video. Definitely worth checking out!

Mobility is becoming an important part of application development. This falls into either connected or disconnected mobile applications. In this screencast, Thom takes a look at building connected mobile applications using the ASP.NET Mobile Controls with Visual Studio 2005. The Openwave…

After a review of the three general situations that would cause you to create you own custom membership provider Patrick walks you through the creation of a very primitive membership provider and see it in action. Also featured in this screencast is a quick look at the membership database…

Visual Studio 2005 has many new added security features to help you the developer create a secure applications with little effort. The permissions calculator coupled with the ability to emulate security zones found in code access security allow you to test your applications in a simulated…

System.Security.AccessControl is new to .Net 2.0. This wonderful namespace is the holy grail of namespaces when it comes to modifying Access Control Lists on objects. Are you tired of using that old p/invoke calls, tired of creating huge security holes by attempting to muck with windows API's…

In Part 1 we looked at the basics of Web Parts with Visual Studio 2005 and ASP 2.0. In this second installment Thom takes a look at some of the more advanced customization features. These include how to build a catalog and personalizing a Web Part Page.

Microsoft Word is probably one of the most commonly used software packages. What many people don’t realize is that it exposes a very rich and fully featured object model. The object model is based around three basic objects. This is the top level Application object and the underlying Document…

The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System brings significant enhancements to the development of business solutions that rely on solutions based on Office, Excel, InfoPath and Outlook 2003. Extending the previous versions, the integration of these tools into Visual…

In this screencast, Thom takes a look at one of the new features of ASP 2.0 called Themes and Skins. A theme is a collection of property settings that allow a Web page to define a common look and for pages and controls. Themes are made up of elements: skins, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS),…

The Web Services platforms represents the evolution of past distributed component technologies. They really were the result of developments and companies struggling with the various interoperability issues that were common with other technologies. Web Services aren’t the only distributed…