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With previous versions of ASP.NET, developers had to decide whether to create custom controls or user controls. This article looks at a method for easily creating custom controls from existing user controls (ASCX files).

As speech-enabled applications become a core requirement for many enterprise and commercial applications, you'll need to become familiar with the Microsoft Speech Platform.

Extreme ASP.NET: Codebehind and Compilation in ASP.NET 2.0

Neodynamic is pleased to announce a new release of Barcode Professional for ASP.NET. This new version includes barcode generation enhancements and full-integration with Visual Studio 2005. Barcode Professional can generate the most popular Linear & 2D Barcode Symbologies. At design-time Barcode Professional presents an impressive designer that works in most popular Development Tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Visual Studio 2005, Borland C# Builder, and so on.

I-Load is a ASP.NET web control that makes uploading images faster and easier. - Uploads images without writing even one line of code.- Allows either automatic or manual resizing and cutting of the uploaded image - Automatically generates unlimited resizing options from the original image. - Allows previews of the uploaded images. - Works with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 .NET

Online Article: A Low Level Look at ASP.NET Architecture

ASP.NET is a powerful platform for building Web applications, that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility and power for building just about any kind of Web application. Most people are familiar only with the high level frameworks like WebForms and WebServices which sit at the very top level of the ASP.NET hierarchy. In this article I'll describe the lower level aspects of ASP.NET and explain how requests move from Web Server to the ASP.NET runtime and then through the ASP.NET HTTP pipeline to process requests.ASP.NET is a powerful platform for building Web applications, that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility and power for building just about any kind of Web application. Most people are familiar only with the high level frameworks like WebForms and WebServices which sit at the very top level of the ASP.NET hierarchy. In this article I'll describe the lower level aspects of ASP.NET and explain how requests move from Web Server to the ASP.NET runtime and then through the ASP.NET HTTP pipeline to process requests.

Online Article: Building Speech-Enabled Applications with ASP.NET

While sleepless the other night, I was channel surfing and ran across a rerun of the 1968 science fiction classic "2001: A Space Odyssey."If you haven't seen this movie, it's definitely a must see. HAL, one of the main characters of the movie, is a slightly psychotic speech-enabled super computer. HAL is responsible for steering the Discovery spacecraft on its ill-fated Jupiter mission. As I watched the movie I was completely amazed at HAL's abilities. HAL handled press interviews, played a wicked game of chess, has varied opinions on art, controls life support, and can read lips. Not to completely destroy the movie if you haven't seen it, but I have to say that I am grateful that most of the movie's predictions aren't true. However, like the HAL of 1968, speech-enabled applications have become a core requirement for both corporate and commercial developers. In this article, I'll help you explore the Microsoft Speech Platform that comprises the Speech Application Software Development Kit (SASDK) and Microsoft Speech Server 2004. I'll also show you how you can use these technologies with Visual Studio 2003 to both build and deploy speech-enabled applications.

Online Article: Manage Custom Security Credentials the Smart (Client) Way

Both Internet and intranet applications often require a custom store for user accounts and roles. ASP.NET 2.0 provides an out-of-the-box provider model as well as a SQL Sever database just for that propose. Unfortunately, the only way to administer the credentials databases is via Visual Studio 2005, and only for local Web applications. This article presents a full-blown custom security management application that administrators can use. The application wraps the ASP.NET 2.0 providers with a Web service and even adds missing features. This article presents the design approaches, challenges, and techniques involved in developing such an application. The article also walks you through some powerful yet useful techniques such as interface-based Web services, reflection-based Web service compatibility, advanced C# 2.0, Web services security, and Web services transactions.

Here Dino Esposito and Andrea Saltarello cover the plumbing of the Membership API and its inherently extensible nature, based on pluggable providers. To demonstrate the features, they take an existing ASP.NET 1.x authentication mechanism and port it to ASP.NET 2.0, exposing the legacy authentication mechanism through the new Membership API.

Ensuring the security of a Web application is critical and requires careful planning throughout the design, development, deployment, and operation phases. It is not something that can be slapped onto an existing application. In this article, Michael Volodarsky outlines best practices that allow you to take advantage of the security features of ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 6.0 to build and deploy more secure Web applications.