Does a solution written for Microsoft .NET have to be 100% .NET? This article looks at how hybrid managed-unmanaged solutions are really the norm.

The ASP.NET 3.5 release that accompanies Visual Studio® 2008 introduces a new data-binding control—the ListView. I know what you're thinking: why do we need yet another data-bound control in ASP.NET? After all, we already have more than 10 controls to choose from when displaying collections of data, including the semi-retired DataGrid, the new and improved GridView, the ever-solid and simple Repeater, the unique and flexible DataList, the handy FormView and its somewhat redundant sibling the DetailsView. And of course there are the single-dimensional list controls BulletedList, ListBox, DropDownList, RadioButtonList and CheckBoxList. Well, the ListView can literally replace all other data-binding controls in ASP.NET. That's right, every last one. You could literally eschew every other control in the above list in lieu of the ListView control. The ListView also makes several data-binding tasks much easier than they were with previous controls, including styling with CSS, flexible pagination, and the full complement of sorting, inserting, deleting, and updating features.

This article describes methods for designing screens in a user interface and the technology frameworks that support screen design.

Testing is a major activity in any development lifecycle. If we want to effectively use it, the ease of testing should be addressed from the early stages of building the system.

Premature optimization may be the root of all evil, but at some point in your app's development cycle you're going to need to analyze your code for performance and memory use. Here's a collection of profiling tools and information that will help make you a lean, mean coding machine.

In part one of this two part article, you will learn about five of the top ten "worst offenders" of misconfigurations of application security that can cause overall problems for ASP.NET Web-based applications. Learn more about how to secure the Web.config files of an ASP.NET application.

In this second part of a two-part series, you will learn about application security issues related to authentication and authorization, as well as five vulnerabilities commonly found in ASP.NET web-based applications. Additionally, find out how to keep configuration files from being unintentionally modified by uninformed programmers or administrators, as well as why it is critical to never rely on default setting values.

Chapter 4 of Framework Design Guidelines, titled "Type Design Guidelines," presents guidelines that describe when and how to design classes, structs and interfaces. In this chapter, the authors divide types into four groups and discuss the do's and don'ts of type design.

This installment of Test Run is a guide to using Windows PowerShell to perform ultra lightweight UI automation.

Web Services are an integral part of the .NET framework that provide a cross-platform solution for exchanging data between distributed systems. Although Web Services are normally used to allow different operating systems, object models and programming languages to send and receive data, they can also be used to dynamically inject data into an ASP.NET AJAX page or send data from a page to a back-end system. All of this can be done without resorting to postback operations.