25th March 2008

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The Windows Indexing Service is a useful tool for providing web based search facilities. In this code sample, Brett shows how to build a .NET friendly search facility using ASP.NET and C#. He begins with a short introduction and then provides a detailed analysis of the code given at the end of the article.

http://aspalliance.com/1605_CodeSnip_Using_the_Windows_Indexing_Service_with_ASPNET_and_C

Editor's Comments

As Scott Guthrie recently announced and thousands of developers have repeated, Microsoft has made the source code for the ASP.NET MVC Framework available to the public. It is available through the ASP.NET CodePlex project. The CodePlex project is a good place to download the current preview of MVC as well as the source code for the project. It is nice to have this code freely available as it gives developers great insight into how these tools work. I expect in a year or so, ASP.NET MVC will be a reasonably common platform for developing new web applications. For now we can sit and wait for source code changes on the CodePlex project, and perhaps we’ll have a good idea of where this new technology is going. Some people, I am certain, will find bugs in the code, and instead of waiting for a fix from Microsoft will roll their own fix for a local copy of ASP.NET MVC.

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In this article, Deepankar demonstrates the usage of Shell scripts in UNIX and their ability to run any Oracle script file. After reading this code snippet, you will be able to execute a number of oracle queries at one go without any need to wait for the end of one query to run another. This technique will be helpful for bulk insertion of records into a table.

The development of a directory based portal requires a huge effort from number of developers. Why not use ready made software instead of reinventing the wheel? In this review, Anand test drives IndexU 5.4, a search engine optimization tool, in his own site and records his impressions. He first discusses the necessity of the software and then delves into installation and the features included with the product. Anand also examines the basic functioning of both the back-end and front-end system with the help of screenshots and also pin points some of the minor problems he faced with the software.

In this video Mohammad Azam demonstrates how to implement controller action authentication in the ASP.NET MVC Framework. He explains how to add this security as well as why it is so important in MVC. [5:21]

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