(Ged Mead) Sometimes you don’t have control over how the data is saved to a text file. For instance, some items might be saved with quotation marks around words or phrases. If you want to read the file but not show these marks then you’ll need a way to remove them.

(Rico Mariani) From time to time customers or partners ask me about our plans to create a 64 bit version of Visual Studio. When is it coming? Why aren’t we making it a priority? Haven’t we noticed that 64 bit PC’s are very popular? Things like that. We just had an internal discussion about “the 64 b

(Satheesh Babu) Cascading DropDownList is a technique where we populate a child DropDownList based on the parent DropDownList selection. For example, when we select a state in States DropDownList, it will populate the City DropDownList based on the state selected for a personal information input for

(Arno) Microsoft Team System / Team Foundation Server is a really nice line of products. Besides version control we heavily rely on TFS Work Items for organizing development tasks. One of our largest project is conducted using Scrum, so we are utilizing Conchango’s Scrum Plugin for Team System, plus

(John Charles Olamendy) This article is intended to illustrate how to implement optimistic concurrency control in ASP.NET. Optimistic concurrency control is a mechanism to check when multiple users concurrently access and change a common data item; they don’t overwrite one another’s change. I’m goin

(Kevin Gallagher) There are a multitude of reasons for altering a template. For instance you probably do not write new applications much but instead work on one project for a long time then move to a new project. Usually developers writing a new Windows forms application have several mundane tasks

(Sergey Zwezdin) The LINQ to SQL platform works faster than the ADO.NET Entity Framework. It occurs because LINQ to SQL has no difficult mappings which exist in ADO.NET Entity Framework. However, many examples, which are shown in ADO.NET Data Services, are based on ADO.NET Entity Framework. It is lo

(Ged Mead) One of the things that first caught me out in WPF was the simple topic of colors. For example, let’s say you want to reset the BackColor of a Form in Windows Forms.

(Anmol Gupta) This example assumes the main page from which users will pop up the calendar is named Calender.aspx. The following procedure shows how to create the popup calendar:

(John Goodson and Robert A. Steward) Designing your database application and the configuration of the database middleware that connects your application to the database server for optimal performance isn’t easy. We refer to all these components as your database application deployment. There is no on