(Abdulla Hussein AbdelHaq) In this article, Abdulla examines the creation of a new custom GridView control from scratch, which allows the developer to include a checkbox column to the GridView control automatically with embedded JavaScript code to check/uncheck the checkbox column without the need t

(Ged Mead) PerformClick is one of the many casualties of a move from Windows Forms to WPF. Of course, it’s probably not something you would need to use often, but just in case you do then there is a way.

(Greg Osborne) A vital part of database application programming is the identification and use of lookup items similar in functionality to constants. Prior to .NET, a developer could define their lookup values in database tables, but to use them as constants in their applications, they would have a s

(Suprotim Agarwal) I wrote this article sometime ago in response to a query asked by a dotnetcurry.com viewer. The user had a requirement where he had two dropdownlist in the GridView and the second one was to be populated at runtime based on the selected value of the first dropdownlist A case of c

(Brian Mains) ASP.NET AJAX has many helpful features that make developing ASP.NET applications asynchronous. Sometimes though, with the out-of-the-box controls in the ASP.NET framework, it is hard to tap into the existing control architecture to add custom JavaScript capabilities. Oftentimes, creat

(John Gay) Many companies, particularly those undertaking business intelligence (BI) initiatives, struggle with data issues. The problem is rarely a lack of data, but rather an overabundance. To make matters worse, despite decades of experience in using databases to manage information, disparate dat

(Jani Jrvinen) Today, .NET developers using only Microsoft’s solutions have the chance to use Visual Basic, C#, and C++ to develop their applications. All three of these languages are based on a programming paradigm (model) called imperative programming where you as a developer specify the exact ste

(David Kean) You may have already read Justin Van Patten’s post about the upcoming breaking changes to the String class for .NET 4.0. This change will affect the behavior of the String.StartsWith, String.EndsWith, String.IndexOf and String.LastIndexOf methods by changing them to perform an ordinal (

(Scott Guthrie) Silverlight 2 provides a rich platform for building cross-browser/cross-platform RIA applications.

(Scott Nelson) The purposely provocative title of this article is meant to capture the attention of people with two opposing mindsets. The first are the proponents of agile methods who will want to pick apart any arguments against their preferred approach. The second are those who oppose agile and a