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Microsoft to standardise Office formats

Microsoft intends to submit file formats for its new Office 12 applications to the European standards body ECMA International. The company hopes this will allay concern about its level of control over document formats. Read more »

Trojan horse threatens latest Windows XP

Online miscreants have released a Trojan horse that can infect computers running Microsoft's Windows XP, installing programs to remotely control a victim's system. Read more »

Office 2007: FrontPage is out, blogging is in

Don't go looking for FrontPage in the just-released Beta 2 edition of Office 2007. Microsoft has axed its 10-year-old Web site authoring software. Read more »

Control your search with new Google experiment

Google is experimenting with a new Web search interface that allows people to influence the results they get by indicating whether or not they like particular results. Read more »

Microsoft Patch Tuesday brings six critical updates

Microsoft has released six critical patches for August's 'Patch Tuesday', including a fix for six vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. Read more »

Judge halts Defcon hacking speech

A federal judge on Saturday in the US granted the Massachusetts transit authority's request for an injunction preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation about hacking smartcards used in the Boston subway system. Read more »

Understand the ASP.NET DataGrid control

Need to get up to speed on the ASP.NET DataGrid control features? Try this introduction article on for size. Read more »

Microsoft probing ActiveX attacks targeting Access feature

Microsoft has issued a security advisory warning about targeted attacks being launched that exploit a hole in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer in the Microsoft Access database management system. Read more »

Hackers hijack ICANN sites

On Thursday, the domains used by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, were hijacked to redirect users to a protest message. Read more »

FAQ: Yahoo-Google ad deal's antitrust scrutiny

Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny. Read more »

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Build a page framework in ASP.NET

ASP.NET enables you to create an object-oriented page framework to build Web sites. Find out how to put this handy capability to work. Read more »

Achieve common ASP.NET page functionality

In this article we take a look at ASP.NET 2.0's template page feature and how you might create base pages with inheritance. Read more »

Implement custom paging with SQL Server 2005

In previous columns, I covered the basics of using the .NET 3.5 ListView control and explained how to pair it with the DataPager control. Now I'll show you how to use these controls with a SQL Server 2005 backend to implement custom paging, in which only a subset of the data is retrieved for display. Read more »

Store dynamic page responses with output caching in ASP.NET

In ASP.NET, you can cache either an entire dynamic page or a portion of a page. Find out how to perform smart page caching based on a requesting URL, POST parameter, or query string. Read more »

Diving into the data grid: Page changing and deleting

If you want to combine paging and deleting in an ASP.NET DataGrid, you may run into trouble. We'll show you the code that will enable you to get these commands to work together. Read more »

Server-side Web page ripping

In this tutorial we take a quick look at the different ways in which server-side HTTP connections can be made using ASP, ASP.NET and PHP, and how they can be adpated to a range of applications. Read more »

Web Service Behaviour component reduces page refreshes

Web application performance often degrades as the number of roundtrip calls increases between the client and server. Microsoft provides a solution, the Web Service Behaviour HTML component. Learn how it can enhance the browsing experience for your users. Read more »

Build a Web site for Macromedia Contribute users

Macromedia Contribute 2, a simplified Web page authoring program, enables clients and corporate end users to create and publish Web pages without knowing HTML. Read more »

Designing a search-friendly Web site

By controlling the search engine indexing of your Web site, you can ensure that users trying to find your information get there easily. Read more »

Design more cohesively with XML and XSLT

Find out how XML and XSLT transformations can help you bring together your site's design. Read more »

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Design websites with Dreamweaver CS3 layouts

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- Dreamweaver CS3 allows you to accelerate your Web design process by providing 32 sample CSS layouts. Read more »

Q&A with EditMe: A wiki for non-geeks

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Finally, a wiki CMS solution that you can safely give to your clients to use. But sshhhh... don't call it a wiki... Read more »

Know when to walk away, know when to run

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- As a software developer, there are certain projects you want to avoid. For me, that is usually the project where the end-users design the entire application -- you know the type I am talking about. Read more »

Spry Game

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At this year's Adobe WebDU conference in Sydney, Greg Rewis gave a presentation on Spry 1.6, the AJAX framework. Read more »

Are your Web apps ready for the next-gen browser war?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Webkit, Firefox, and Internet Explorer are all scheduled to update their browsers in 2008. Are you ready for Web dev test fest 08? Read more »

Yahoo open search: Good for users, but great for Yahoo

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Yahoo is making a big deal of its new open search initiative. This program, not yet live, will allow site publishers to influence the way the Yahoo search engine displays results for their sites. Read more »

Reader Offer: Silverlight Training

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Get one hour of learning in Silverlight that is all practice-based and fully integrated with Visual Studio. Read more »

Still many questions about software for mobile computers

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The great thing about the development of future mobile computers is that no one school of thought has come to dominate the territory. Of course, that's also a problem. Read more »

Worth getting out of bed for!

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- There some mornings I don’t want to get out of bed... Read more »

Microsoft's two faces of SharePoint

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- One way or another, proprietary and open-source companies need an answer to SharePoint. Content is the center of the enterprise ecosystem, when all is said and done. SharePoint is Microsoft's answer for controlling the next decade of IT. 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

  • Renai LeMay MyPerfect.com.au has potential

    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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