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Developers get .NET source -- look but don't touch

Microsoft intends to release parts of the .NET 3.5 source code in the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2008. Read more »

Rapid app development hits Delphi for PHP 2.0

CodeGear has launched the Delphi for PHP 2.0 integrated development environment to improve its developer tools suite for building interactive Web applications. Read more »

The History of Builder AU

Builder AU has turned five and it's time to look back and see how we got here. Read more »

System.Globalization namespace in .NET

The .NET Framework has built-in support for globalisation in its System.Globalization namespace. This namespace can help you build international support into your applications. Read more »

IDC Web site defaced by 'eco-terrorists'

The Web site of Global IT research firm IDC has been hacked by a group purporting to be Brazilian environmental terrorists to serve a message urging people to take action over global warming. Read more »

Microsoft to offer peek at new tools

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will offer a glimpse this week of future versions of the company's Visual Studio.Net development tools bundle. Read more »

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Combining JavaScript with ASP.NET Web forms

JavaScript provides an alternative for many tasks that negates the need to go to the server. Let's take a closer look at combining the power of JavaScript with ASP.NET. Read more »

Create an ASP.NET Web Form

The ASP.NET codebehind feature allows you to create Web forms with Managed C++, which makes those forms accessible via the intranet or Internet. In this article, Builder.com will show you how to create a Web form. Read more »

Forms authentication in .NET: Using a database

Storing forms authentication information in Web.config has serious limitations. See how to work around them by storing this information in a database. Read more »

Master simple forms authentication in .NET

Using forms authentication, you can quickly build a simple, secure Web app. This walk-through shows you how to apply the strategy in your apps. Read more »

Prepare for the transition from HTML forms to XForms

XForms are an XML-based replacement for conventional HTML Web forms. Learn about the basic elements of XForms and see how to implement them in a standard Web form. Read more »

Ask Chuck: Background colours of an ASP.NET web form

This week Chuck answers a Builder AU reader's question on the difficulty of getting a background colour to work on an ASP.NET web form. Read more »

Perform HTML form validation with ASP.NET

Most business applications involve data input, validation, and some form of output. Web applications are no different. Learn how to validate user input with ASP.NET. Read more »

Implement Web form tracking with ASP.NET

IIS can log a huge amount of Web usage data, but keeping robust logs without dragging down performance requires a skilled developer's help. Use ASP.NET to generate rich Web form tracking logs without unacceptably impeding performance. Read more »

Coding a 'One-to-Many' Form with ASP.NET

Learn how to create a form/sub-form in ASP.NET with this helpful article from Sydney-based developer Ray Gudgeon. Read more »

Secure ASP.NET 2.0 sites with Membership API

Beginning with ASP.NET 2.0, the Membership API was added to simplify adding security to a Web application. This article explains how to use the Membership API with a SQL Server back-end. Read more »

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  • Staff Shadow chasing in browsers

    The punching and counterpunching continued in the ongoing web browser development bout. Each time one browser closes a feature gap, a new feature appears in one of the others -- how we ever put up with the years of browser stagnation, I'll never know. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Chris Duckett Safari gets Gears

    Since its release in May last year, Gears has supported only Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. With the addition of Safari into the Gears fold, it closes the loop of major browsers to support Gears Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

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    Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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