(Olivier Giulieri) The discrepancies between object and relational models has been long noted, and referred to as the object-relational impedance mismatch.

(Peter Vogel) In earlier columns, I looked at solutions for handling data concurrency (i.e., when two or more users update the same data at the same time). After outlining the problem, I provided two solutions: one to put in your middle-tier business objects and one to put in your SQL statements, ei

(AzamSharp) JQuery is the most popular JavaScript library. One of the main reasons for its fame is the plugin architecture. Anyone can create a separate library that leverage the JQuery library. In this article we are going to look at the BlockUI library which is used to block the user screen while

(Paul Kimmel) An old friend of mine, Joe Shook, laughingly said, “you should read what other people write too once in a while.” Of course, he was right and naturally I do. I must. I read almost everything I can get in my hands including technical books, blogs, and articles because I am surprised by

(Sateesh Kumar) In this article, we will look into new synchronization framework provided by Microsoft. This Sync Framework enables collaboration and offline access for applications and devices. It allows to access data from various locations, sharing and taking data offline. Developers can create a

(Satheesh Babu) My previous article – Building Cascading DropDownList in ASP.Net Using jQuery and JSON discussed about using jQuery and JSON communication to implement Cascading DropDownList control. Clearly, with jQuery and JSON we can prevent need of UpdatePanel control which is really bulky when

(Brad Abrams) While the feedback on .NET RIA Services has been great, many people have commented on the way we store metadata as custom attributes on “buddy” classes of entities.

(Srinath M) When you call a web service method that doesn’t return a value (a void method), you don’t want to waste time waiting until the call returns. But by default, the calling thread blocks until the server responds.

(John Kilgo) I like the idea of highlighting rows in a GridView as the user scrolls the mouse up and down. The effect can be achieved using the RowDataBound event handler to add OnMouseOver and OnMouseOut attributes to handle the color change.

(AzamSharp) When you display data in a GridView you should always be very careful not to show the primary key of the table in GridView. In Datagrid we made these columns invisible and hence the client was not able to see them. Unfortunately all invisible columns of the Datagrid were stored in the Vi