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Useful utilities offering functionality not found elsewhere	Posted by	Messages	Last Action
Find all links to a file
Find Links Utility	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
XML Schema validation utility written in VB using the DOM
Schema Validation Utility (VB/DOM)	Aaron Skonnard	1	September 14, 2004
Allows you to build and edit XML Infosets (graphically).
Infoset Editor	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Compresses XPath expressions using all allowed abbreviations
XPath Compress	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
COM interop shims for accessing the unmanaged ICorPublishProcess family of interfaces.
ICorPublishProcess, ICorPublishAppDomain Interop Shims	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
A series of ATL templates to encapsulate the new OLE DB 2.5 cotypes
ATL Consumer Templates for OLE DB 2.5	Bob Beauchemin	0	April 08, 2004
A database driven UDDI-like repository that produces DISCO documents on demand
UDDI-Lite	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Cleans VC++ intermediate files
CleanVC	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
An interative utility that tells you whether or not the XML you're typing in is valid according to the DTD
Interactive Validation Utility	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Explore SSPI and authentication protocols like Kerberos
SSPI Workbench	Keith Brown	0	April 08, 2004
Evaluates XPath expressions as you type
XPath Expression Builder 3.0	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
C++ code that verifies Windows passwords.
SSPI Password Verifier	Keith Brown	1	August 30, 2004
Generates SOAP 0.9 requests and allows you to send them to a designated SOAP 0.9 server
Generic SOAP 0.9 Client	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Evaluates XSLT documents interactively in DHTML
DHTML XSLT Interactive Evaluator	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
DbSerializer - custom attributes for database persistence
Custom Attribute DbSerializer	Richard Blewett	0	April 08, 2004
Mapping the ASP.NET Http Pipeline
ShowPipeline	Keith Brown	0	April 08, 2004
XML Schema validation utility written in VB using SAX
Schema Validation Utility (VB/SAX)	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Generate <machineKey> section for machine.config
GenerateMachineKey	Keith Brown	0	April 08, 2004
Displays ASP.NET security contexts
showContexts	Keith Brown	0	April 08, 2004
Open related source files in DevStudio
GotoRelatedSrc	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
A service that listens to a POP3 mailbox and runs commands based on the messages it receives.
PopRouter	Craig Andera	2	January 24, 2005
Explore window station and desktop security
Window Station / Desktop DACL Editor	Keith Brown	0	April 08, 2004
Utility that displays various statistics about the types within a set of assemblies.
Assembly Statistics Utility	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
A protocol handler for Java
Java Protocol Handler	Brian Maso	0	April 08, 2004
Utility that displays information about the serializability of a given type
Serializable Utility	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Utility to generate a public key token from a public key represented in text format
Generate token for public key in text format	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Winforms application for decoding hidden view state in .aspx pages
View State Decoder	Fritz Onion	0	April 08, 2004
Utility that displays the AttributeUsageAttribute properties for a given attribute class
AttributeUsage Utility	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Classes for using multiple parameter sets with OLE DB
MultiParm	Bob Beauchemin	0	April 08, 2004
Utility demonstrating the use of .NET crypto classes for generating and verifying digital signatures
Digital Signature Generation	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Command-line utilities for MSXML 4.0
MSXML 4.0 Command-Line Utilities	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
A COM wrapper for the open source ZLIB compression library
COM Wrapper for ZLIB	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Displays the command line for a running process
Running Process Command Line Utility	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Evaluates XPath expressions as you type
XPath Expression Builder 4.0	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Transforms the POST'ed XML document against the XSLT file specified in the URI
XSLT ISAPI Extension	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
COM interop shim for adjusting the CLR-managed thread pool using the ICorThreadpool interface.
Thread Pool Control Sample	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Create custom COM interception plumbing
Universal Delegator	Keith Brown	0	April 08, 2004
Password verification and login
DevelopMentor Security Utilities	Keith Brown	0	April 08, 2004
WS-Inspection Samples and Whitepaper
WS-Inspection Samples	Bob Beauchemin	0	April 08, 2004
Command-line utilities for checking wellformed-ness, validation, evaluating XPath expressions, and executing XSLT transformations using .NET's System.Xml
.NET XML Command-Line Utilities	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Peer into process/thread tokens
Token Dump Component	Keith Brown	0	April 08, 2004
Command-line utilities for MSXML 3.0
MSXML 3.0 Command-Line Utilities	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Visual Debug Pack
Visual DbgPak	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Explore logon sessions, window stations and tokens
Session Viewer	Keith Brown	0	April 08, 2004
Utility that displays every namespace in a different color
XML Namespace Highlighter	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
MFC-based XML editor
XMLEdit	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
An interative utility that tells you whether or not the XML you're typing in is wellformed
Interactive Wellformed XML Utility	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Evaluates XPath expressions passed on the query string and returns the identified document subset rather than the entire document
XPath ISAPI Extension	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
MDirProv2 Sample data provider for .NET
MDirProv2 data provider	Bob Beauchemin	0	April 08, 2004
Lists which .NET Framework assemblies may be called by partially trusted code.
FindAPTC	Keith Brown	0	April 08, 2004
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Snippets and sample code providing insight into using various technology areas	Posted by	Messages	Last Action
How to convert X12 transaction sets, X12 segments, X12 elements, and codelists to XML data.
X12 Tools - How to Convert X12 Documents to XML	Jason Mazur	0	December 08, 2007
Sample DTD
Sample DTD	Jason Mazur	0	January 31, 2006
XML Document Wizard Examples
XML Document Wizard Examples	Jason Mazur	0	January 08, 2006
Example of How to Generate XML
Example of How to Generate XML	Jason Mazur	0	January 08, 2006
Canonicalize XML Example
Canonicalize XML Example	Jason Mazur	0	January 08, 2006
XML Well Formedness Example
XML Well Formedness Example	Jason Mazur	0	January 08, 2006
XML Differencing Example
XML Differencing Example	Jason Mazur	0	January 08, 2006
XML Validation Example
XML Validation Example	Jason Mazur	0	January 08, 2006
XML Parsing Example
XML Parsing Example	Jason Mazur	0	January 08, 2006
XML Editing Example
XML Editing Example	Jason Mazur	0	January 08, 2006
XML Grid Example
XML Grid Example	Jason Mazur	0	January 08, 2006
XML Viewer Example
XML Viewer Example	Jason Mazur	0	January 08, 2006
Apache AXIS Web Services Example
Apache AXIS Web Services Example	Jason Mazur	0	January 08, 2006
Microsoft System.XML Examples
Microsoft System.XML Examples	Jason Mazur	0	January 07, 2006
MSXML Example
MSXML Example	Jason Mazur	0	January 07, 2006
Google API Web Service Example
Google API Web Service Example	Jason Mazur	0	January 07, 2006
This sample shows how to make a composite control in ASP.Net. The control is a standalone game of tic-tac-toe.
Tic Tac Toe as Composite	Nuno Teixeira	0	September 29, 2004
Sample code using reflection to provide a dynamic indexer over arbitrary objects.
The DynoIndexer	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
A suite of SAX samples for MSXML 3.0 and VB
MSXML 3.0 VB SAX Samples	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Custom implementations of XPathNavigator and XmlReader (file system, registry, assemblies, etc.)
.NET Custom XPathNavigator/XmlReader Implementations	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Sample socket-based code demonstrating the use of [Serializable] , [NonSerialized] , and IDeserializationEventListener .
Serialization and Transient Data	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Sample code that defines a custom WaitHandle class for performing blocking wait operations on managed Threads.
ThreadWaitHandle Class	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Sample code demonstrating how to support DllMain-like call-on-load functionality for assemblies.
CallOnLoadAttribute	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Example of class that evaluates a string that is an arithmetic expression.
Arithmetic string evaluator	Dan Sullivan	0	April 08, 2004
Sample implementation of IHttpModule that logs requests and response packets to a log file on disk.
Logging HTTP Module	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Demo perf optimizations in CAS stackwalk
TestStackWalk	Keith Brown	0	April 08, 2004
An MFC-based application that monitors stock quotes from several different quote Web quote providers (Yahoo! Quotes, ETrade, Quotes.com)
HTML-based StockWatcher	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Sample ConfigFileReader class for parsing arbitrary configuration files and arbitrary key/value sections.
Arbitrary Configuration File Parser	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Sample code demonstrating the use of the StrongNameIdentityPermission attribute.
StrongNameIdentityPermission	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Run a program in a different logon session from C#
Secondary Login from C#	Keith Brown	1	June 02, 2004
A progress indicator with a percentage display.
PercentageProgress	Ian Griffiths	0	April 08, 2004
Sample server side ASP.NET custom control with DevStudio designer integration
ASP.NET Custom control with designer integration	Fritz Onion	0	April 08, 2004
Sample dynamic context property supporting automatic method call logging.
TraceHook.net	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Illustrates how to build a namespace-aware DTD, where the namespace prefix is parameterized
XML Namespaces and DTDs	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Illustrates how to use XML in ASP as an in-memory cache
XML as an In-Memory Cache	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Sample server-side ASP.NET custom control demonstrating many control-building techniques
ASP.NET Bar Graph control with designer	Fritz Onion	0	April 08, 2004
Builds DHTML menus (expand/collapse) via XSLT
XSLT-based DHTML Menu Builder	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Sample custom remoting channel sinks that capture and transmit client-side security principal information to the server.
IdentitySink Remoting Channel Sink	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Using Oracle Refcursors with .NET
OracleSP	Bob Beauchemin	0	April 08, 2004
Several examples of extending XSLT documents with JScript or .NET functions
Extending XSLT with JScript and .NET	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
User Right Enumerator
Who has this right?	Keith Brown	0	April 08, 2004
Illustrates how to use IE5's UserData behavior for XML-based persistence
IE5 and UserData XML Persistence	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Sample code illustrating how to register additional trace listeners.
Registering Trace Listeners	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Sample code that supports per-assembly configuration files.
Per-Assembly Configuration Files	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Sample code demonstrating the how to support the "Synchronized" idiom for providing just-thread-safe-enough types.
Supporting the Synchronized Idiom	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Hello World in IL
Hello World in IL	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Sample code demonstrating how to create and deploy publisher policy for a strongly named assembly.
Publisher Policy Sample	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Sample code demonstrating how to support events in .NET remoting.
Remoting Events	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Sample code demonstrating the use of the WinForms Control.Invoke mechanism for safe multithreaded updates to controls.
Updating WinForm Controls From Different Threads of Execution	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Illustrates how to load an ADO Recordset from an XML stream
ADO and XML Integration	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Illustrates how to implement dynamic sorting using a combination of XSLT and DHTML
XSLT, HTML, and Dynamic Sorting	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Sample code that implements IDataReader to return a list of running processes for a given machine.
IDataReader Process Snapshot Sample	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Sample code demonstrating the use of IIS/ASP.NET to host .NET remoting servers using the binary formatter.
Using IIS/ASP.NET to Host .NET Remoting Servers	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Tracks Amazon sales and review information for a list of books
Amazon Book Tracker (Sales/Reviews)	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Sample code demonstrating RemotingServices.Marshal and RemotingServices.Unmarshal to serialize and deserialize object references to persistent media.
Marshaled ObjRef Demo	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Illustrates how to leverage XSLT's declarative programming model to implement an RPN calculator
XSLT RPN Calculator	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Sample code and configuration file demonstrating side-by-side assembly support without using the GAC.
Side-by-side assembly support without using the GAC	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
Sample custom context attribute that automatically publishes and updates performance counters for method call statistics.
Automatic Performance Counters	Mike Woodring	2	August 05, 2004
Sample custom configuration section handler supporting arbitrary nested element names.
Custom Configuration Section Handler	Mike Woodring	5	August 04, 2004
Illustrates how to take advantage of MSXML's asynchronous loading functionality
MSXML and Asyncronous Loading	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Sample code demonstrating synchronous and asynchronous sockets.
Synchronous and Asynchronous Sockets	Mike Woodring	0	April 08, 2004
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Technical papers by DevelopMentor staff describing APIs, platforms and internals	Posted by	Messages	Last Action
Learn how OLE DB uses accessors to retrieve data from the data source, as well as provide input parameters to parameterized queries and stored procedures.
OLE DB Accessors	Bob Beauchemin	0	April 08, 2004
Paper on using OLE DB, ODBC, and native data providers with ADO.NET
Migrating Data Access Code to ADO.NET	Bob Beauchemin	0	April 08, 2004
Learn about SQL/J, a series of standards for using Java, embedded SQL and relational and object-relational databases.
SQL/J and Embedded SQL	Bob Beauchemin	0	April 08, 2004
Learn how to create your own Java Security Policy implementations.
java.security.policy: When "java.policy" Just Is Not Good Enough	Ted Neward	0	April 08, 2004
Proposal for a standard component configuration interface (CCI) for Java.
Escaping Properties Purgatory, Part 2	Stuart Halloway	0	April 08, 2004
WS-Inspection Samples and Whitepaper.
WS-Inspection Samples and Whitepaper	Bob Beauchemin	0	April 08, 2004
Learn everything you need to know to exploit the java.net.URL custom plug-in architecture.
Java Protocol Handlers	Brian Maso	0	April 08, 2004
Examine the core APIs and classes that make up the Java security architecture.
Java 2 Security	Brian Maso	0	April 08, 2004
Learn about the benefits of the ANSI C++ standard.
ANSI C	Angelika Langer	0	April 08, 2004
Learn ways to find out which versions of your Java classes are running.
Know What You Are Executing: Finding a list of Loaded Classes	Ted Neward	0	April 08, 2004
Understand the need to know the ins and outs of the Java Virtual Machine.
Exploiting the Java Virtual Machine	Brian Maso	0	April 08, 2004
Learn how to build and use the most exciting new feature of ASP.NET, custom controls.
Designer Integration for ASP.NET Custom Controls	Fritz Onion	0	April 08, 2004
Learn how to use, and avoid problems with, Class.forName() for dynamically loading classes.
Understanding Class.forName() - Java	Ted Neward	0	April 08, 2004
Why developers working in technologies like RMI or Servlets need to be cognizant of Serializable objects, and what to do when trying to store a non-Serializable-implementing object.
Serializing Non-Serializable Objects - Java	Ted Neward	0	April 08, 2004
Learn why Web Services are important, and how to include them in your system architecture.
Understanding Web Services	Stuart Halloway	0	April 08, 2004
Application configuration deserves careful design--perhaps even more than application code. Unfortunately, the lion's share of effort, planning, and tool development goes into making code clean and elegant--with configuration and deployment left as an afterthought.
Properties Purgatory, Part 1	Stuart Halloway	0	April 08, 2004
How to make use of running multiple copies of the JRE.
Multiple Java Homes	Ted Neward	0	April 08, 2004
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Magazine pieces authored by DevelopMentor instructors	Posted by	Messages	Last Action
Build and access Web services based on synchronous RPC-oriented SOAP messaging
Introducing JAX-RPC	Simon Horrell	0	April 08, 2004
The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a minimal set of conventions for invoking code using XML and HTTP. DevelopMentor, Microsoft, and UserLand Software submitted SOAP to the IETF as an Internet Draft in December 1999.
Inside SOAP	Don Box	0	April 08, 2004
Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is a cornerstone of Web services development. When developing a Web service WSDL is a typical starting point, and many toolkits will consume WSDL to produce both client-side and server-side code.
Different WSDL Styles in Axis	Kevin Jones	0	April 08, 2004
An introduction to the family of XML specifications.
XPath, XSLT, and other XML Specifications	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
The two accepted techniques of managing session in a Web service are to rely on HTTP and use HTTP cookies, or to use SOAP headers. Axis lets you do both.
Managing Sessions In Web Services	Kevin Jones	0	April 08, 2004
Debug Servlets in Tomcat by running it as a debuggee that a debugger can attach to—and then do it remotely.
Debugging Servlets	Kevin Jones	0	April 08, 2004
Using an XML DOM processor to create XML documents is relatively straightforward. Making these documents namespace aware is also easy; however, if you create a namespace-aware DOM, when you output the DOM as a text file the namespace data is lost.
Output Namespace-Aware XML Documents	Kevin Jones	0	April 08, 2004
The XSLT spec defines an XML-based language for expressing transformation rules that map one XML document to another.
XSLT Alleviates XML Schema Incompatibility Headaches	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Extreme programming means testing often during the development life cycle, and the Cactus environment is ideal for making unit testing easier.
Unit Test Java Web Apps With Cactus	Kevin Jones	0	April 08, 2004
Kevin discusses the basics of using Java in Tomcat.
Java Tomcat	Kevin Jones	0	April 08, 2004
An introduction to the concepts in JAAS and how to make use of these concepts.
Introduction to JAAS and Using JAAS	Stuart Halloway	0	April 08, 2004
You can take advantage of newly introduced client-side persistence behaviors that offer a better solution for managing state.
XML Files: XML-based Persistence Behaviors Fix WebFarm Headaches	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
The Infoset spec standardizes the abstract data model implied by the XML 1.0 and Namespaces recommendations.
XML Files: Addressing Infosets with XPath	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
Questions are answered about WebMethod Validation, SOAP Validation, XmlSerializer, One-way Operations, and more.
XML Files: WebMethod & SOAP Validation, XmlSerializer, and more	Aaron Skonnard	0	April 08, 2004
The 1.4 release of Java introduces the new Java Logging API.
The Java Logging API	Stuart Halloway	0	April 08, 2004
This extensible, powerful framework enhances the construction of Web apps by providing support for form and error handling and support for processing requests.
Create Better Web Apps with Struts	Kevin Jones	0	April 08, 2004
XML technologies work together to generate cross-platform SOAP marshalling code.
Bridge the Language Barrier	Simon Horrell	0	April 08, 2004
SOAP facilitates interoperability among a wide range of programs and platforms.
A Young Person's Guide to SOAP	Don Box	0	April 08, 2004
This article discusses how component technology evolved and how eXtensible Markup Language (XML) will become widely used as a way for software components to interoperate, in essence acting as a gateway between autonomous, heterogeneous systems
Lessons from the Component Wars: An XML Manifesto	Don Box	0	April 08, 2004
I have come to realize that Visual Basic .NET and C# are equal in terms of productivity, performance, and flexibility. Neither one has a clear advantage over the other.
Choosing between Visual Basic .NET and C#	Fritz Onion	0	April 08, 2004
JSP tag libraries allow you to use powerful Java code in your Web site that is cleverly disguised as HTML
Putting up a Good Front	Kevin Jones	0	April 08, 2004
Filters, new with the Servlet 2.3 spec, give Web developers a powerful new tool for building complex applications
Filters for Pre-and Post-Processing	Kevin Jones	0	April 08, 2004
The JDOM API provides the best of SAX and DOM for working with XML
A Better XML API for Java	Kevin Jones	0	April 08, 2004
The Java Message Service provides a more reliable way to send messages than the RPC/RMI model
Get the JMS Message	Kevin Jones	0	April 08, 2004
Web services are probably the largest growing area of development at the moment.
Configure Axis Web Services	Kevin Jones	0	April 08, 2004
The cost to businesses from the SQL Slammer Worm ran into the billions of dollars...
Calculating Return: What Security Can Do for You	Deborah Gage	0	April 08, 2004