(Tony Patton) At the TechEd North America 2008 Developers conference, I heard an interesting talk that focused on .NET programming basics, which spurred a lively discussion on reference types and value types. The more people talked, it was obvious how many people misunderstand the subject. With that

(Viram) The article or rather a code snippet demonstrates a simple application of insert, update, delete using datagridview. Here, sample data is used and one can customize this gridview according to her or his need. There are some unique features in this datagridview like: –Adding columns at ru

(Josh Smith) This article explores how to use the ViewModel pattern to make it easier to work with the TreeView control in WPF. Along the way, we examine why people often have difficulty with the WPF TreeView, what a ViewModel is, and two demo applications that show how to combine a TreeView with a

(George P. Alexander Jr.) I was catching up with my feeds and took note of Defence In Depth’s Robert Vamosi’s interview with Jeremiah Grossman from WhiteHat Security on April’s mass SQL Injection attack carried out on IIS web sites that ran with SQL Server as backend . What caught my attention was t

(Chi-Wei Wang) The reporting needs for an organization often can change, requiring updates to existing reports as well as the addition of new reports. Having to update and re-deploy software each time reports are updated or added can quickly become time consuming. Rather than writing custom code for

(S. M. Sohan) At times, the execution of a LINQ to SQL query may take a longer time and exceed the default value of the DataContext class’s CommandTimeout property. The following article will present a way to achieve an application-wide CommandTimeout for your DataContext class.

(Paul Kimmel) In this article, youll learn how Lambda expressions work, including closures and currying. Youll also learn why Lambda expressions are needed along the way. Enjoy!

(Isaiah D. Williams) Generics in Visual Basics 2005 make it possible to re-use code and still have strong typing. With Visual Basics 2003 a different collection had to be defined for each data-type causing repetition of code. Generics allows for classes and methods to facilitate unrelated types. A

(konda reddy) This article explains the methods of transferring huge data from any data source to SQL Server database using Asp.Net 2.0s SqlBulkCopy class.

(Scott Mitchell) When using Microsoft’s ASP.NET AJAX framework and an UpdatePanel whose ChildrenAsTriggers is set to True (the default), anytime a user interface element within the UpdatePanel would normally cause a full page postback, a partial page postback is performed instead. For example, click