(Mickey Gousset) We’ve talked about the Visual Studio Team System’s work item tracking system in past columns. It’s a powerful yet easy-to-use and extensible way to keep track of all the “stuff” that needs to be done for a project. However, one feature missing from Team System was the ability to cre

(Scott Mitchell) In my job as an independent software developer I help a lot of small businesses enhance their existing company website or internal web applications to include new features or adopt best practices. Many of these businesses have vital line of business applications that were created ma

(George B Gilbert) The code in the accompanying demo project includes all the routines needed to add file system treeview and listview controls to a VB.NET project. The demo project illustrates how to set up a treeview and listview control that provides access to the local file system similar to Win

(Tess Ferrandez) You learn something new every day I was working on an issue with appdomain restarts caused by page re-compilations because aspx pages were created and modified from the code. You can get lifetime event information such as shutdown reasons, compilation information etc. in the eve

(Charlie Calvert and Dinesh Kulkarni) This chapter explores the various rules and syntactical elements that define the structure of LINQ query expressions. The text covers the seven different types of query expression clauses and explains the four ways in which they introduce range variables. In the

(Arun Thomas) This tip shows how to read from a log file using a specified format. The following code takes all the logs for the date mentioned in the date control.

(Paul Kimmel) Until .NET 2.0, when emitting MSIL (Intermediate Language) by the Reflection namespace, you were required to generate a dynamic assembly and dynamic type to contain a method. Once created in memory these dynamic assemblies just hung around. In .NET 2.0 the DynamicMethod was introduced.

(Xianzhong Zhu) To gain a more intuitive reference, let us again take a look at the running time snapshot of the main and only page (Default.aspx) in this system.

(Gil Fink) There are two types of state management – server side and client side. In this post I’m going to introduce the client side state management and explain when to choose client side or server side state management.

(Jay Miller) I recently needed to check on the status of some processes running on a server. I simply logged into the server and fired up Task Manager. This worked fine for a quick one-time check. What is really needed, though, is an automated way to keep tabs on these processes. The .NET Framework