(Brad Abrams) A reader recently asked me to expand on the ASP.NET Authentication + Silverlight concept I started.. Specifically they wanted to do know how they can have a web service that returns different results depending on who calls the service (and what role they are in).

(Kathleen Dollard) I discovered a serious bug in the Visual Basic 9.0 compiler shortly before Visual Studio 2008 was released. The symptom is that certain lines of code are not included in the IL output. Like all programmers, I expect the source code I write to be reflected perfectly in the applicat

In the previous tutorial we worked with asp.net 2 client callback mechanism. We saw how to use this mechanism to make asynchronous calls to the server side from the client and then return the results back to the client, without any postback. This technique extremely improves the performance of you a

(Bipin Joshi) Visual Studio comes with an inbuilt web server. No doubt the inbuilt web server comes handy during development. However, finally your web site needs to sit inside Internet Information Services (IIS). If you are an ASP.NET developers you are probably familiar with IIS6. The new generati

(Bipin Joshi) Visual Studio comes with an inbuilt web server. No doubt the inbuilt web server comes handy during development. However, finally your web site needs to sit inside Internet Information Services (IIS). If you are an ASP.NET developers you are probably familiar with IIS6. The new generati

(Tess Ferrandez) We just released a hotfix for an issue where you get 100% CPU in vbc.exe when compiling large applications in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.

(Brian Mains) The Accordion control is a flexible control that neatly separates the region of the user interface and condenses the overall user interface. This control can support data binding, which I personally did not know until recently. The Accordion control supports binding data to the Header

The try/catch block is used to capture thrown exceptions and to allow an application to recover gracefully from the problems that caused them. This article has been created to determine if the try/catch block causes a substantial performance penalty.

(Jim Mischel) The next problem we have to solve is how to read a text file in memory-sized chunks. In the old days, when all we had to worry about were ASCII strings of one byte per character, we could directly read a large piece of the file into a memory buffer and then scan the buffer, replacing t

(Christian Del Bianco) ASP.NET 2.0 lacks the OptionGroup functionality () in the DropDownList control. This means that is not possible to obtain a select control as show below: