Here is the same content in en-us.

New Technologies and a New MagazineHey, remember the Web? Back around 1996 it was big news. People suddenly realized that with just a telephone line and Internet Explorer, they could go shopping without ever leaving the comfort of their home! Over the Web you could buy furniture, art, books, and appliances, all of which would make your home comfortable enough to stay there and do some more online shopping, accelerating the vicious cycle of consumerism. Cool!Over the years, however, the Internet has become an integrated part of the technology picture. Standalone client programs without Internet connectivity are a rarity today. More and more, it seems like innovation is happening at the fringes rather than at the core. Ideas like “breadcrumb” navigation and those annoying Flash ads that obscure the screen you’re trying to read until the “low mortgage prices” cube has finished spinning (before you can find the faint “Close X” button) are just a few examples. But don’t be fooled. There’s still a lot of new stuff to learn about Web programming.This month, we are highlighting a couple of these Web and Internet technologies. We’re talking about the new GridView component in ASP.NET 2.0. It’s a lot like the DataGrid, only better. Carl Franklin discusses peer-to-peer chats and how to design them using the .NET Framework. And Dino Esposito uses his Cutting Edge column to show you how to do partial page refreshes with either ASP.NET 2.0 or 1.x.We’ve received a flurry of letters from readers of late asking whether we can provide source code in more languages. As part of our { End Bracket } column, we’ve asked contributing editor John Robbins to take a look at this request and his solution was to whip up a tool that helps translate C# projects into Visual Basic .NET. To see it, flip to the back page right now!Back yet? Great. If you’re like many of our readers, your job takes you beyond mere development into the world of IT. Perhaps you’re a Windows power user, able to punch your way through arcane Control Panel settings and weird registry entries. Perhaps you know how to make a wireless network function properly without getting your building chalked for being an open access point. Who knows, maybe you even have a second career in the offing—driving in the South American racing circuit. (Probably not, but we need to set up the photo that’s on this page.)It’s become an MSDN Magazine tradition to produce an annual issue that discusses security. While we were planning this year’s version (due out in November), we realized something that in retrospect seems obvious: the people who are interested in security as developers are also looking for solutions for administration. From this simple idea comes a new project. This autumn, we will be publishing a special sister publication, designed for the IT professional—TechNet Magazine.The inaugural issue will provide gobs of technical information about security in the IT world, as well as other real, hands-on information that you (or your admin friends) can use right away. Just surf on over to http://www.technetmagsubs.com and sign up today. We’ll hold the rest of the Editor’s Note until you get back.While you were off signing up for TechNet Magazine, we took the liberty of wheeling our new MSDN Magazine race car into the Editor’s Note. We have been introducing MSDN Magazine to several countries worldwide, including a Portuguese edition in Brazil. So how did the Brazilian publishers choose to advertise the magazine? A t-shirt? A squishy ball? Okay, let’s stop the “list of novelty items” charade—we all know the answer is the semi-official MSDN Magazine race car! At press time, we have no news of how the car actually finished, so we won’t make any painful quips about how we crossed the finish line first with great content or how we displayed the yellow caution flag when covering beta software. All in all, that’s probably for the better.Thanks to the following Microsoft technical experts for their help with this issue: Uwa Agbonile, Mike Ammerlaan, Keith Ballinger, Jay Bazuzi, Rebecca Dias, Mike Fitzmaurice, Kirill Gavrylyuk, Matthew Gibbs, Chris Hays, Polita Huff, Bryan Keller, John Koropchak, Ronald Laeremans, Rangan Majumder, Constantin Mihai, Erik Olson, Matt Powell, Kurt Schmucker, Maura Van Der Linden, and Reid Wilkes.

Active Directory, ActiveX, BizTalk, DirectX, FrontPage, JScript, Microsoft, Microsoft Press, MSDN, SharePoint, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual SourceSafe, Visual Studio, Windows, Windows NT, and Win32 are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Windows Server is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Other trademarks or tradenames mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

MSDN Magazine does not make any representation or warranty, express or implied with respect to any code or other information herein. MSDN Magazine disclaims any liability whatsoever for any use of such code or other information.

Receive the MSDN Flash e-mail newsletter every other week, with news and information personalized to your interests and areas of focus.

View the original article here