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Enterprise Library Articles Are you using Enterprise Library? Microsoft's patterns & practices group will soon be releasing version 4.0 of Enterprise Library. There are plenty of new features; including the all-new Unity Application Block, and better support for use in ASP.NET applications. We have a growing collection of articles that describe techniques for taking advantage of the extremely useful library of application blocks in Enterprise Library in our Articles Archive.

ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated Get the most from ASP.NET! Discover what ASP.NET 2.0 can do to help you build great Web applications with far less code and effort than ever before! Our new book ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated delves into ASP.NET 2.0 in depth to demonstrate advanced techniques for building Web pages, managing relational and XML data, using the powerful personalization and security features of ASP.NET, and implementing sites for disabled users, mobile devices, and with localized content. It also demonstrates how to build Web Services, how to secure your site, and some of the many ways you can take advantage of other classes within the .NET framework in your applications. Read more...

ASP.NET 2.0 Visual Web Developer Starter Kit Get started with ASP.NET 2.0! Building great Web sites is easy with Microsoft's Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. It includes SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, so you can create data-driven Web sites straight away, without requiring a separate database server or data management tools. This book takes you on a journey through VWD and ASP.NET, exploring the new controls and the exciting opportunities that they enable, and the techniques you need to know to get the most from them. It also contains a CD-ROM that includes a trial edition of Visual Web Developer 2005 Express. Read more...

Who are Dave and Al? might give you some background information about us. Read "The Early Years" or "The Plot Thickens", though bear in mind that not all of the material on this site is strictly non-fiction.

For some time, in the lull that comes between sleep and jet-lag, Dave and Al have been writing technical articles for other Web sites. The topics range across the whole spectrum of ASP and ASP.NET, data management, XML, application design and architecture, accessibility, and more. Many of these articles are available only to subscribers of other Web sites, but in response to requests from visitors an Articles Archive has been established to provide access - where possible - to the articles and the code samples.

Al is a great believer in the power of suggestion. He's always asking people to suggest where he might have left things. In Al's shed, most of the cardboard boxes are marked 'Spiders', and the rest are marked 'Big Spiders'. Everything else seems to find a home buried underneath a pile of garden tools and other unidentifiable things.

Dave, on the other hand, is a one of those organized and tidy people, where everything has a place and there's a place for everything. In fact, in Dave's spare room all the stuff is neatly filed away in a big cardboard box marked 'Stuff'. Well, in one of the boxes marked 'Stuff'. Well, most of the time, anyway.

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