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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>MSDN Just Published</title><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/</link><description>Keep current with all the new technical articles, columns, specifications, and resources published on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN).</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>1440</ttl><item><title>Nothin' But ASP.NET: Provider Design Pattern, Part 2</title><pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Implement the Provider Design Pattern in your ASP.NET 1.1 applications today, and dynamically replace or extend the behavior of published APIs without needing source access to the API itself.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspnet/html/asp04212004.asp</link></item><item><title>Using ASP.NET with FrontPage 2003</title><pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Discover how to use the powerful, professional design, authoring, data, and publishing tools in FrontPage 2003 to create high-end dynamic Web sites with ASP.NET.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_fp2003_ta/html/odc_FPUsingASPNETWithFrontPage2003.asp</link></item><item><title>The Delegate Type in J#</title><pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Use the Delegate Type in Microsoft Visual J# .NET to treat methods as data.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vjsharp/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/bjthedel.asp</link></item><item><title>Developing Games for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition</title><pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Get recommendations for developing games that run separately, full-screen, outside of the Media Center user interface—plus references for developing games that run using the Media Center extensibility model.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnxpmce/html/devgameswinmc.asp</link></item><item><title>Frequently Asked Questions about Developing Software for the Tablet PC</title><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Find answers to common questions about the Tablet PC development environment.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dntablet/html/tabdevfaq.asp</link></item><item><title>Writing Custom Web Services for SharePoint Products and Technologies</title><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Discover techniques for effectively creating custom Web services that enhance the power of Windows SharePoint Services for your SharePoint-based solutions. Use the sample download to upload documents to a library and check files in to or out from a remote application.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_SP2003_ta/html/ODC_WritingCustomWebServicesforSPPT.asp</link></item><item><title>Best Practices for Supporting Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Devices</title><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn best practices to follow to help ensure your applications work well with the features of Microsoft input devices to provide the best possible user experience.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwui/html/BestPracticesforSupportingMicrosoftMouseandKeyboardDevices.asp</link></item><item><title>Service-Oriented Architecture: Considerations for Agile Systems</title><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Employ principles of good service architecture to design business software that delivers agility and adaptability.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/journal/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnmaj/html/aj2service.asp</link></item><item><title>Get Embedded: Going Virtual</title><pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>At the ESC West show, Mike Hall finds the solution to his hardware dilemma by installing Windows XP Embedded and Microsoft Virtual PC on the same machine.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnembedded/html/embedded04232004.asp</link></item><item><title>Accessing Oracle 9i Stored Procedures Using ADO.NET</title><pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Use the .NET Oracle Provider in the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 to access Oracle stored procedures and functions.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnadonet/html/msdnorsps.asp</link></item><item><title>CLICKONCE Deploy and Update Your Smart Client Projects Using a Central Server</title><pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>One stop shopping for ClickOnce Deployment</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/05/ClickOnce/default.aspx</link></item><item><title>Combining XML Documents with Xinclude</title><pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn about XInclude, an emerging W3C standard, and XPointer. Discover a specific implementation of XInclude for the .NET Framework.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnxmlnet/html/XInclude.asp</link></item><item><title>C++ Write Faster Code with the Modern Language Features of Visual C++ 2005</title><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>What you need to knopw about the new syntax in Visual C++ 2005</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/05/VisualC2005/default.aspx</link></item><item><title>C# 2.0: Create Elegant Code with Anonymous Methods, Iterators, and Partial Classes</title><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Find out what's coming up in C# 2.0</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/05/C20/default.aspx</link></item><item><title>Moving from WS-Routing to WS-Addressing Using WSE 2.0</title><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>See what the issues are surrounding Web services routing and the need for transport-neutral addressing. Learn about core WS-Addressing concepts and secure routing.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/wsroutetowsadd.asp</link></item><item><title>Visual Basic: Navigate the .NET Framework and Your Projects with “My”</title><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Get the lowdown on Visual Basic 2005.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/05/VisualBasic2005/default.aspx</link></item><item><title>MSDN TV: Highlights of the WinFS Data Access API</title><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Watch Mike Deem provide a quick look at the basic concepts of the WinFS data access API: objects based on schemas, powerful query support and support for WinFS concepts such as relationships.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20040422winfsmd/manifest.xml</link></item><item><title>NET FRAMEWORK 2.0: Craft a Rich UI for Your .NET App with Enhanced Windows Forms Support</title><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Find out what's new in Windows Forms controls, working with themes, binding and displaying data, other data-specific features of Windows Forms</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/05/NETFramework20/default.aspx</link></item><item><title>Security in Longhorn: Focus on Least Privilege</title><pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Leverage the increased security of "Longhorn" by living in a least privileged environment.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/leastprivlh.asp</link></item><item><title>Overview of MSBuild, Part 1: From a Project Author's Perspective</title><pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Presents the new Microsoft build engine (MSBuild), shows how to write your own project file, and digs into how it integrates with Visual Studio 2005 (formerly code-named "Whidbey").</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/msbuildpart1.asp</link></item><item><title>Integrating InfoPath 2003 with BizTalk Server 2002</title><pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Explore the ways in which organizations can use InfoPath 2003 and BizTalk Server together to create business process solutions.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_ta/html/ODC_IPIntegratingInfoPathwithBizTalk2002Gen.asp</link></item><item><title>Integrating Word, Excel, and InfoPath with SQL Server 2000</title><pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Discover how new capabilities in Excel 2003, Word 2003, and InfoPath 2003 provide a variety of ways to connect to and interact with SQL Server data.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dno2k3ta/html/ODC_OfOfficeandSQL.asp</link></item><item><title>Developing an Alerts Web Service that Uses Outlook 2003 Alerts</title><pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Leverage Outlook 2003 alerts to notify users of your third-party applications of specific events.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ol2003_ta/html/odc_olalertswebservice.asp</link></item><item><title>.NET Rocks! - Keith Pleas and Harry Pierson</title><pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>This show is about architecture: Why to How. 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This page links to the download and to articles designed to show off features of the Visual C++ 2003 compiler.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/</link></item><item><title>Evolution of the SQL Server Data Access Model</title><pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Get an overview of data access layers that work with SQL Server, including ADO, the XML interface of SQL Server 2000 (SQLXML), ADO.NET, and the upcoming ADO.NET 2.0, by Dino Esposito.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnsql2k/html/sqlserverprog.asp</link></item><item><title>Gaming with the .NET Compact Framework: A Simple Example</title><pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>This sample expands upon the GAPI series of articles by creating a simple playable game demo. (37 printed pages)</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/BustThisGame.asp</link></item><item><title>Gaming with the .NET Compact Framework</title><pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Create a playable game demo with this latest installment of the GAPI wrapper series of articles.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/GManGame.asp</link></item><item><title>Developing Smart Device WiFi Applications with the .NET Compact Framework</title><pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn to create a Multi-Communication Framework that allows .NET Compact Framework and Full .NET Framework applications to share information in a WiFi friendly way.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/MultiCommFramework.asp</link></item><item><title>Conformance to ISO Standards for C++</title><pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Demonstrates how Visual C++ can be used to incorporate the .NET Framework into C++ applications.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/conformance.asp</link></item><item><title>Visual C++ Optimization Overview</title><pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Demonstrates a few of the many code-optimization features offered by the Visual C++ 2003 compiler.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/optimization.asp</link></item><item><title>Security Checks at Runtime and Compile Time</title><pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Demonstrates Visual C++ compiler and library features for helping developers increase the robustness and security of their applications.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/securitychecks.asp</link></item><item><title>Accessing Microsoft Office Data from .NET Applications</title><pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>See how to get Microsoft Access and Excel data out of your Office files and into your .NET applications, and how the OLE DB provider can be used to write generic code that makes working with .xls or .mdb files easier.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/default.aspx?pull=library/en-us/dnadonet/html/odatanet2.asp</link></item><item><title>Writing Managed Applications for the .NET Framework</title><pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>See how Visual C++ can be used to incorporate the .NET Framework into C++ applications.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/frameworknet.asp</link></item><item><title>MSDN TV: First Look at ADO.NET 2.0</title><pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>ADO.NET 2.0 extends and enhances ADO.NET in multiple directions. 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You can bring up a device that has no operating system or hard drive, run Target Analyzer to create a device list, format and partition a hard drive with DiskPart, and connect to a network. After an image is installed on the device, you can also use Windows PE to fine-tune the files and registry.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnxpesp1/html/winpepe.asp</link></item><item><title>.NET Rocks! - Bob Reselman</title><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Tune in to Bob Reselman, author of "Coding Slave", a book that claims the software industry doesn't want you to read it. 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Browse the current list of questions and answers or submit your own!</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/faq</link></item><item><title>Using Schemas with Word 2003 and Excel 2003</title><pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Mary Chipman provides an easy to follow introduction for working with the new XML functionality in the Microsoft Office System by walking through common XML tasks in Word 2003 and Excel 2003.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dno2k3ta/html/odc_of_wordxmschemas.asp</link></item><item><title>Understanding Service-Oriented Architecture</title><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Gives a concise explanation of service-oriented architecture, what it is, and how it affects what architects, CIOs, project managers, business analysts, and lead developers do.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/journal/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnmaj/html/aj1soa.asp</link></item><item><title>Metadata-Driven Application Design and Development</title><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Presents an overview of using a metadata-driven approach to designing applications. If the use of software frameworks can be defined by patterns, then metadata is the language used to describe those patterns.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/journal/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnmaj/html/aj1metadat.asp</link></item><item><title>Metropolis</title><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Explore the present and future directions of IT with Microsoft Architect Pat Helland, as he looks at parallels between IT and the evolution of American metropolises.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/journal/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnmaj/html/aj2metrop.asp</link></item><item><title>JOURNAL 1</title><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Forward and editorial for the Microsoft Architects JOURNAL, January 2004.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/journal/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnmaj/html/aj1intro.asp</link></item><item><title>JOURNAL 2</title><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Forward and editorial for the Microsoft Architects JOURNAL, April 2004.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/journal/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnmaj/html/aj2intro.asp</link></item><item><title>Best Practices for Rule-Based Application Development</title><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Takes a high level view of knowledge and looks at different types of knowledge and their mappings to executable computer code to gain insights into when and why rule engines provide advantages over conventional software development tools.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/journal/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnmaj/html/aj1rules.asp</link></item><item><title>Enterprise Architecture Design and the Integrated Architecture Framework</title><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Describes Cap Gemini Ernst &amp; Young's Integrated Architecture Framework, and describes a model for enterprise architecture and its importance in helping software architects understand the business as a whole.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/journal/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnmaj/html/aj1entarch.asp</link></item><item><title>DasBlog: Notes from Building a Distributed .NET Collaboration System</title><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Expounds the merits of weblogs as a means of sharing knowledge, and describes the lessons learned from designing and implementing a weblog engine built using Microsoft .NET technologies.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/journal/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnmaj/html/aj1dasblog.asp</link></item><item><title>Business Process Decomposition and Service Identification Using Communication Patterns</title><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Discusses communication patterns and their role in defining business processes and services. Such patterns afford decomposition of business processes into business, informational, and infrastructural services and the definition of their dependencies, thus providing a solid basis for enterprise information and application architecture.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/journal/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnmaj/html/aj1bizproc.asp</link></item><item><title>SQL Server Professional: Random Sampling in T-SQL</title><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Brian Connolly discusses techniques to sample a table--their advantages and disadvantages--and performs a statistical evaluation of the population samples that each technique produces.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsqlpro04/html/sp04c1.asp</link></item><item><title>FoxTalk: Hidden Secrets of the VFP IDE, Part 2</title><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Cathy Pountney uncovers many ways to work within the IDE, especially those that aren't so obvious or aren't documented.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfoxtk04/html/ft04c5.asp</link></item><item><title>Smart Access: Implementing Proactive User Assistance</title><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Smart Access columnist Rebecca M. Riordan explains a type of user assistance that is frequently overlooked.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsmart04/html/sa04c6.asp</link></item><item><title>Hardcore Visual Basic: VB-Helper: Strong Stuff</title><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Columnist Rod Stephens shows how to prevent a common EmployeeId method error by using strongly typed collections in both VB6 and VB.NET.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnhcvb04/html/vb04c10.asp</link></item><item><title>WS-Addressing Additions and Updates</title><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>This overview describes additions and changes in the WS-Addressing specification since original publication in 2003, and includes examples and implementation considerations not contained in the specification.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/wsaddressdelta.asp</link></item><item><title>Automating Commerical Printing Prepress Tasks in Publisher 2003, Part 3</title><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>In this last article of the series, Andrew May shows how to use the Publisher 2003 object model to automate, customize, and extend prepress operations.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_pb2003_ta/html/odc_PB_Prepress_3.asp</link></item><item><title>Handy Tasks Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and Visual Basic .NET</title><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Outlook contains a number of objects and methods that make it easy to customize the working environment for your own uses. See just a hint of the possibilities that you can put together for your own purposes.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_OL2003_ta/html/odc_OLOMwVBNET.asp</link></item><item><title>Efficient Techniques for Modifying Large XML Files</title><pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Efficiently update or modify large XML files, such as log files and database dumps. Dare Obasanjo shows you how.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnxmlnet/html/largexml.asp</link></item><item><title>Creating Call Events in an Emulation Environment</title><pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Take advantage of the  emulator's virtual radio to create events like incoming SMS messages and phone calls in Smartphone 2003 and Pocket PC 2003.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/callevents.asp</link></item><item><title>.NET Rocks! - Tony Bain</title><pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Hear Rory and Chris Sells talk with Tony Bain about the issues faced when building SQL Server-based applications. Topics include optimization strategies and tools, how DBAs can help, transaction and concurrency control, isolation levels, DB design, and strategies for accessing SQL from Visual Studio.NET.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/</link></item><item><title>MSDN TV: Using High Performance Features in Visual C++</title><pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn how to make use of some new features added to Visual C++ in Visual Studio 2005. These include adding OpenMP to your application, optimizing your application with Profile-Guided Optimization, and building a 64-bit application.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20040408VisualCKG/manifest.xml</link></item><item><title>How PowerPoint 2003 Plays Multimedia Files in a Presentation</title><pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Examine how PowerPoint handles media files, the three Microsoft media technologies it employs, and the factors that influence how the files perform during your presentation.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_pp2003_ta/html/odc_PP_PlayMedia.asp</link></item><item><title>Adding Multimedia to a PowerPoint 2003 Presentation</title><pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Discover how PowerPoint employs Microsoft Windows multimedia technology to play media files, the best approaches for working with media, and the advantages of controlling their behavior programmatically.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_pp2003_ta/html/odc_PP_InsertMedia.asp</link></item><item><title>Lab 6: ActiveX Controls in InfoPath 2003</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn to write a custom ActiveX control that meets all requirements for use in InfoPath. Then learn how to deploy the control to the Controls task pane, insert the ActiveX control into your form, and install and register it on users' computers. (Lab 6 of 16)</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab_06.asp</link></item><item><title>Lab 9: ADO.NET DataSets in InfoPath 2003</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn to create a simple Web service in Visual Studio .NET that receives and submits data to and from a database, and then design an InfoPath form that is based on the Web service. (Lab 9 of 16)</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab_09.asp</link></item><item><title>Lab 8: Data Sources in InfoPath 2003</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn to retrieve data from data sources, create data connections and secondary data sources, and then base your submit logic on whether the user is online or offline. (Lab 8 of 16)</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab_08.asp</link></item><item><title>Lab 7: User Roles in InfoPath 2003</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn to create a new view for a form, create user roles, set up rules based on those roles, and preview a form with specific user roles. (Lab 7 of 16)</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab_07.asp</link></item><item><title>Lab 5: Business Logic in InfoPath 2003</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn to create a simple schema validation, a custom data validation, and a script-based validation using the OnValidate event. Then use formulas to calculate totals, conditional formatting to call attention, and rules to display a message box. (Lab 5 of 16)</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab_05.asp</link></item><item><title>Lab 1: Editing Forms and Working with Form Data in InfoPath 2003</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn to complete a form and add new sections, merge and export data, and sign data with a digital certificate. (Lab 1 of 16)</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab_01.asp</link></item><item><title>XML Schema Design Patterns: Is Complex Type Derivation Unnecessary?</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn about derivation by restriction and derivation by extension of complex types—the pros and cons of both techniques—and discover alternatives to achieving the same results.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnxml/html/comptypder.asp</link></item><item><title>Lab 2: Designing a Form in InfoPath 2003</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn to lay out, add controls, and add a color scheme to a simple sales form. You will also learn how to select print settings and preview the form. (Lab 2 of 16)</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab_02.asp</link></item><item><title>Lab 4: Controls in InfoPath 2003</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn to create a file attachment control that lets users attach documents to their forms and how to customize controls by changing their property settings. In addition, use advanced InfoPath controls to manage the way that data is displayed in a form. (Lab 4 of 16)</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab_04.asp</link></item><item><title>Lab 3: Publish a Form in InfoPath 2003</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn to publish a form to a Windows SharePoint Services form library, send a form as an e-mail message attachment, save a form you have filled out back to the form library, and disable design mode for your users. (Lab 3 of 16)</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab_03.asp</link></item><item><title>Lab 10: Digital Signatures in InfoPath 2003</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn to enable digital signatures for an entire form or for parts of a form, and then how to work with the InfoPath object model for digital signatures. (Lab 10 of 16)</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab_10.asp</link></item><item><title>Lab 16: External Automation in InfoPath 2003</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn to write script that automatically opens, updates, and saves forms without user interaction. (Lab 16 of 16)</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab_16.asp</link></item><item><title>Lab 15: Managed Code Business Logic in InfoPath 2003</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn to integrate InfoPath with Visual Studio .NET, debug managed business logic, access .NET Framework Classes from InfoPath business logic, set up .NET Framework Security for your form, and  use roles in managed code. (Lab 15 of 16)</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab_15.asp</link></item><item><title>Auto-Generating Wrapper Classes for Stored Procedures, Part 1: Using the AutoSproc Tool</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Save time by using the AutoSproc code generation tool to auto-generate wrapper classes for stored procedure calls.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/autousa2.asp</link></item><item><title>Auto-Generating Wrapper Classes for Stored Procedures, Part 2: The Internals of the AutoSproc Tool</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Review the AutoSproc tool, which uses a code generation technique using classes from the System.Reflection.Emit namespace. It is assumed that the reader is fully conversant with the System.Reflection namespace, but not System.Reflection.Emit or CIL.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/autointe2.asp</link></item><item><title>Lab 13: Schemas in InfoPath 2003</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn to create new groups in the form's schema, move existing groups to new locations in the schema, and then replace one schema with a different one. (Lab 13 of 16)</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab_13.asp</link></item><item><title>An Extensive Examination of Data Structures - Part 6: Efficiently Representing Sets</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Scott Mitchell discusses data structures for implementing general and disjoint sets.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/datastructures_guide6.asp</link></item><item><title>Lab 12: Workflow Support in InfoPath 2003</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn to create and deploy an Approval action that uses the HWS Assign and Delegate actions, create an InfoPath form that uses the Approval action, and then configure BizTalk Pipeline to process InfoPath forms. (Lab 12 of 16)</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab_12.asp</link></item><item><title>Lab 14: Custom Task Panes in InfoPath 2003</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Learn to add a custom task pane to a form. In addition, learn to create context-sensitive Help by adding script to the OnContextChange event. (Lab 14 of 16)</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab_14.asp</link></item><item><title>Writing a Portable Data Access Layer</title><pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Find out how to write smart applications that work transparently with different data sources, from Microsoft Access to SQL Server to Oracle RDBMS.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/default.aspx?pull=library/en-us/dnadonet/html/wriportap2.asp</link></item><item><title>Wonders of Windows Forms: Extending Windows Forms with a Custom Validation Component Library, Part 1</title><pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Michael Weinhardt explores the programmatic validation infrastructure native to Windows Forms and builds upon that foundation to develop a custom library of validation components designed to provide a more productive validation experience.</description><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnforms/html/winforms03162004.asp</link></item></channel></rss>