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What's the easiest way to set up a Web log?
A The easiest way to set up your own Web log is to go to a site like blogger.com and register as a new user. It provides a Web interface for creating a customized Web log that you can use immediately. There are many other sites like blogging.com that provide support for Web log features.
If you'd like more control over the blogging infrastructure or would like to host your blog on your own server, you can also use one of many blogging application...
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This document contains frequently asked questions about Microsoft .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework. (15 printed pages...
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As the Internet and World Wide Web have become more ubiquitous and more accessible to non-computer–savvy individuals, a variety of Web applications have sprung up to enable various forms of communication. One of the most popular of these is the blog (or weblog), which provides an easy means for an individual to publish to the Internet. Another popular communication application is the Wiki, which establishes a sort of virtual whiteboard on the Internet to which anyone can contribute....
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Q What is blogging all about?
Q What's the easiest way to set up a Web log?
Q What's a feed and how can I subscribe to it?
Q Which RSS version is the most current?
Q What do RSS 1.0 and 2.0 look like?
Q So, what is Atom anyway?...
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I read in your December 2005 column how to enumerate files using interop to access the file management functions in Kernel32.dll (see .NET Matters: BigInteger, GetFiles, and More). I don't need to enumerate files, but rather I need to enumerate the NTFS Alternate Data Streams within a particular file. Do you know any way I can accomplish this?
A First, nothing in the Microsoft® .NET Framework provides this functionality. If you want it, plain and simple you'll need to do some sort of interop,...
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This FAQ tries to answer some commonly asked questions about the fundamentals of the .NET Framework - topics like assemblies, garbage collection, security, interop with COM, and remoting. The most commonly-used parts of the class library are also covered. Other aspects of the .NET Framework such as ASP.NET, ADO.NET and WinForms are not covered....
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The C# compiler is able to extract XML comments from C# source files. If at compile time, the /doc command-line option (or the equivalent option in the Visual Studio® .NET IDE) is used to specify a target documentation file, all of the comments are extracted from the source files and are written in an XML format to the target file. Visual Studio .NET can then use this file to display IntelliSense® when the XML file is in the same directory as the compiled assembly (the documentation file must al...
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Judging by the hundreds of questions I've received on the topic, developers are very interested in the Entity Framework and its data access and modeling implications. While I cannot possibly respond to every one of them, in this month's column I will answer some of the more common questions I have been asked. Understanding entity modeling, the mapping of entity models to relational databases, and Entity Data Model (EDM) design are the first steps in grasping the Entity Framework. I'll start this...
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Last month you mentioned data shredding in a question about converting from relational data formats to XML. What exactly is data shredding and what do I need to know about it? Here shredding refers to extracting relevant data out of hierarchical XML and putting it into flat relational storage. Shredding is an open problem with many different solutions, but in general, the more hierarchical the XML is (that is, the more deeply nested the data), the more joins are required to turn the flat, shredd...
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Can you tell me why Microsoft Internet Explorer some-times prompts me for credentials when I'm already logged on to my computer? I hear this question frequently. If you configure IIS to force integrated authentication, you'd expect that domain users would be able to use their single sign-on with your Web site, right? I remember being surprised by this behavior when I first saw it....
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I'm creating new Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) styles for my project. For the best compatibility between several display resolutions and browsers, is it better to use pixels (px) or points (pt)? Font sizes aren't usually specified in px in a production environment—instead, pt or em (a relative size) are generally used. Most sites that really want to control layout and have a target browser in mind (usually Microsoft® Internet Explorer) tend to use pt because they can get something like 8pt Verdana...
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Is there a trick to using .js and cascading style sheets (CSS) includes so they're cached instead of fetched when a request is made? To accomplish that kind of caching you can enable content expiration using the HTTP Headers property sheet in the IIS administrative snap-in by selecting the Enable Content Expiration checkbox. This will tag the HTTP response using an Expires header (see Enabling Content Expiration). You can also use the Cache-Control header to achieve the same effect if you're usi...
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I've heard it's better to use absolute/relative positioning as opposed to a table-driven layout on a Web page. Is that true? I've also heard that it's really better to use cascading style sheets (CSS) only and try to avoid the use of JavaScript altogether. What are the issues I will most likely encounter when I make the choice? There was one case here at Microsoft in which a site had to be localized to work with 31 different languages. The site was originally written for English only and had abs...
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I have a windowless JavaScript menu that gets overshadowed by a windowed dropdown list. How can I prevent this? All windowed elements paint themselves on top of all windowless elements, regardless of what their container wants. However, windowed elements do follow the z-index attribute with respect to each other, just as windowless elements follow the z-index attribute with respect to each other. See How the Z-index Attribute Works for HTML Elements for more on how this works....
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I want to do some work with large numbers, larger than the sizes allowed by UInt64. Does the Microsoft® .NET Framework have any support for this? The base class libraries (BCL) don't expose publicly any big number libraries, although some of the cryptography-related classes do make use of an internal big number implementation. However, all is not lost. While you can search the Web to find a plethora of implementations in C#, C++, and a variety of other languages, it might not be necessary. If yo...
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My digital camera allows me to take pictures using a "sepia" filter which results in photos that look like they were taken in the late 1800s. While this is cool, I'd rather take the pictures normally and then apply this change later on. I can probably do something like this in Digital Image Pro 10, but I'm working on my own photo utility library in .NET and was hoping to add this functionality. What's the best way to change the coloring of a bitmap? There are a few ways to change the colors that...
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I have an application that downloads ActiveX® controls in an HTML page. On certain machines the download fails, but if I give the user local admin rights, the download succeeds. What are the specific privileges that need to be granted to a user for them to be able to download ActiveX controls via HTML pages? Don't hack your user privileges to allow them to install ActiveX controls, as this would allow users to install any arbitrary code and trash the machine. You should deploy the ActiveX contro...
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Access control lists (ACLs) can be complex beasts, and user interfaces for editing them are incredibly tricky to implement properly. That's why I was really excited when Windows® 2000 shipped with a programmable ACL editor, shown in Figure 1. Technically this is more than an ACL editor; it also allows you to edit the owner of an object and both the discretionary and system access control lists (DACLs and SACLs, respectively). But I'll call it "ACL editor" here rather than the more technically co...
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I am writing some code that writes strings from Registry keys, value names, and value data strings into an XML document that I operate on programmatically and sometimes display in an HTML report. I also sometimes need to regenerate the original data string from the XML document. My problem is that there are valid ANSI characters such as 0x07 (BEL) that appear in these Registry strings which are not valid XML characters and, according to the specification, are not valid to escape....
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Recently I had the opportunity to return to school to complete a graduate degree. This experience made me realize two important things: there are some cool ideas in academia that seem to never find the light of day in the professional setting, and the academic world at large is not yet very familiar with the Microsoft® .NET Framework. Thus was born my goal of introducing lesser-known ideas to the professional masses while introducing the .NET Framework to the academic world. One particular conce...
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