(Neil Knobbe) I got caught the other day with a “what the heck” moment.

(Scott Lysle) This article describes a simple approach to determining whether or not a logged in user is a member of a group within the context of an asp.net web based application. The approach shown is based on the use of Windows based authentication in conjunction with a web site configured to den

(Bill Wagner) It’s often simple to build standalone new functionality. The .NET Framework and the C# language provide a rich set of tools that make it easy to build the functionality you need. It can be much more difficult to design something new that fits into an existing application. Often, you’ll

(Marc Clifton) I am writing this article because there is not a lot of information on the web about using the DataTable.GetRowType() method, and the code examples that I found were plain wrong or incomplete. Furthermore, there doesn’t appear to be any automated tools for creating just a typed DataT

(Alex Homer) For the past year or so, I’ve been involved in documentation of frameworks that help developers to write better code, and to create applications that are more efficient and easier to test, debug, maintain, and extend. During that time, it has been interesting to see the continuing devel

(Mark Blomsma) Delegates play a tremendously important role in developing applications for the .NET Framework, especially when using C# or Visual Basic. Events, a special application of delegates, are used all over the framework. And the application and possibilities of delegates has only grown over

(David Ebbo) Unlike Linq To Sql, Entity Framework directly supports Many to Many relationships. Ill first describe what this support means.

(Kenneth Downs) This week I would like to address the assertion that "code is data" and how the application developer might benefit or be harmed by this idea in the practical pursuit of deadlines and functioning code. For some reason my essay written back in May, Minimize Code, Maximize Data got pic

(Ged Mead) Continuing my look at features that seem to be Missing in Action (MIA) from Windows Forms, vbCity colleague Matt pointed out to me that the Anchor property seems to have disappeared.

(Payton Byrd) In the previous posting in the MVCA series, we looked at how to implement a simple version of the Model base that uses generics to allow a DataSet (typed or non-typed) to hold the data of the model. Now we’ll look at how the pattern allows the application handles user interaction.