(Scott Lysle) This article discusses the construction of a generic data access layer built on top of a LINQ to SQL implementation. I was reading an article written by the “GridviewGuy” (Azam Sharp – http://www.gridviewguy.com/) a while back and in which the author discussed using Martin Fowler’s r

(Tom) If you try to use a Login Control and change the contents of the control when someone logs in, you have to be really careful how you do it. You can only change things after certain events to ensure that the template is correct. Also, some events that you think you could use, actually cannot

(Bipin Joshi) In the Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we discussed how to use LINQ to SQL features to query and manipulate data. Part 3 introduced you with the inbuilt LINQ to SQL class designer. The LINQ to SQL class designer not only allows you to design classes visually but also saves reasonable

(Srinath MS) ASP.NET 2.0 provides much needed project health monitoring through its Health Monitoring feature. Simply add few tags and their values in Web.Config and your project will be automatically monitored.

(Amirthalingam Prasanna) ADO.NET Data Services allows you to expose data as entities over a service. This provides an elegant way of using a Linq to SQL model or an ADO.NET Entity model over a WCF service layer. The applications accessing the WCF Service layer to work with the data can be any applic

(Daniel Abadi and Samuel Madden) Last week we discussed the myth that a heavily indexed row-store can provide column-store-like performance. In particular, there is a common misconception that a column-store is basically like having a row-store with an index on every column. In fact, an indexed colu

(Mahesh Chand) This article shows you how to create and use a ListBox control available in Silverlight 2.0.

(Stephen Walther) In this tip, I demonstrate how you can eliminate controller methods that simply return views. I show you how to use the HandleUnknownAction method to handle every request against a controller automatically.

(Bill McCarthy) Arrays are fundamental building blocks for in-memory storage. Arrays are pervasive in .NET, forming the major backbone of many classes, including virtually all collections. Yet many myths surround arrays, their type safety, and their ability to have non-zero bounds. Where there are m

(Suprotim Agarwal) A common requirement in our projects is to select a GridView row and pass multiple values of the selected row to another page. I recently got a request from a few readers who wanted an article on this. In this article, we will explore how simple it is to achieve this requirement.