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In this article Bean Software look at how to upload a file to the web server and compress it using the compression methods provided in .Net. They use the open source compression method to compress to a .gz file. The method is available in System.IO.Compression.

Update 1: This story now start to be like a bad joke. Scott Guthrie and Tim Heuer answers sounds like an Abbott and Costello routine, yes you need to be MSDN Premium subscriber, but yes I am, no you aren't, we tell you, you need to be an MSDN Premium subscriber, etc... !! Come on, can we get some "intelligent" answers ?

 Nice! New development by Oleg Tkachenko

Derek Smyth has created a XML debugger visualizer for Visual Studio 2005 which you can download here. Just unzip and place the DLL in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Packages\Debugger\Visualizers'. You can view the XML as text and as a DOM like tree as well as run XPath expressions as a filter mechanism.

While the adoption of web applications for conducting online business has enabled companies to connect seamlessly with their customers, it has also exposed a number of security concerns stemming from improper coding. Vulnerabilities in web applications allow hackers to gain direct and public access to sensitive information (e.g. personal data, login credentials).

There is a situation where you need both IE versions on the same machine to test your web application. Now you can still run IE6 even if you have IE7 installed on your computer. Just download the file attached and extract it.

Bitjuice is a little library to do bitmap/raster graphics in the browser. The aim is to make it easy to write “Ajax graphics” - graphics you can update real-time in the browser. And at the same time, maintain compatibility with all major browsers and old browsers too. That’s why it doesn’t use any new-fangled SVG/Canvas APIs. Just a plain-old HTML table, where we manipulate the CSS cell background style.

A transaction is a group of operations combined into a logical unit of work that is either guaranteed to be executed as a whole or rolled back. Transactions help the database in satisfying all the ACID (Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, and Durable). Transaction processing is an indispensible part of ADO.NET. It guarantees that a block of statements will either be executed in its entirety or rolled back,( i.e., none of the statements will be executed). Transaction processing has improved a lot in ADO.NET 2.0. This article discusses how we can work with transactions in both ADO.NET 1.1 and 2.0 versions.