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Getting Started with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

 If you've been wanting to get started with AJAX, but haven't known where to start, this is your lucky day. The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is designed to provide a rich infrastructure for you to write your own ASP.NET AJAX extenders and controls, but it also provides a number of exceptional controls that can be used right out of the box by developers without any previous AJAX experience.

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Implementing the .netTiers Template Library as a .NET Website's Data Layer - Part II

 This is the second article in the .netTiers series. The first article included getting started with the template settings, generating the libraries, a first look at the admin site, a page selecting data out of the database and a page inserting data into the database. This article will include .netTiers discovery of custom stored procedures, SourceTable configuration, and adding custom code to the .netTiers library.

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Implementing the .netTiers Template Library as a .NET Website's Data Layer - Part I

 Data layers allow the abstraction of your application's SQL calls to a separate set of objects. The .netTiers template library (using CodeSmith) can help you build a data layer for your .NET Web application. This article will start with an existing sample database and will walk you through the process of using .netTiers to creating all the Create Read Update Delete (CRUD) stored procedures and a data layer for a .NET Web site.

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Building a .NET Console Application for Scheduled Tasks

 This article walks you through the process of building a simple .NET command-line application that is designed to be scheduled to execute. The sample application will send an HTTP request to a web server and send the returned HTML as the body of an email message. Once the application is complete, the article will examine how to schedule it to run using Windows Scheduled Tasks.

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Designing N-Tiered Data Access Layer Using Datasets - Part 4

 Part of the business logic encapsulated in the Typed DataSet is the ability to add specialized queries to the table adapters to retrieve the data with different filters. By manipulating the XML schema that defines the dataset and adding the correct XML metadata, Visual Studio will generate the added queries for us. In this article, filtering queries will be automatically added to each table adapter for each field that is indexed on the table in the database.

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