(Scott Guthrie) Earlier today we shipped a public beta of our upcoming .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 releases. These servicing updates provide a roll-up of bug fixes and performance improvements for issues reported since we released the products last November. They also contain a number of feature

(Kenneth Downs) For a database application, all security in the end becomes a question of who can read and write to what tables. While this is obvious to veteran database programmers, it is not always so obvious to relative newcomers. A programmer who thinks primarily in terms of code will be used t

(Scott Lysle) This article provides an approach to building an application that may be used to collect, store, and retrieve data without relying upon a database to get there. If you need to store a limited amount of data, if your users won’t be sharing data with other users, and you do not require

(Todd Anglin) With the introduction of Silverlight 2.0 beta 1 at MIX08 in March, the infant Silverlight platform took a big step forward. It now has rich support for data binding. It has a vastly increased subset of WPF’s UI engine. It even has radical new technologies like Deep Zoom. But most impor

(Robyn Page and Phil Factor) If performance is important to an application you are developing, then a ‘performance culture’ should permeate the whole development process, right through from initial design through to acceptance testing.

(Anton Ponomarev) Microsoft Report Viewer 2005 control does not support export to Microsoft Word formats by default, but following the steps outlined in this article, you will be able to get Report Viewer to generate reports in Microsoft Word formats (DOC, RTF, WordprocessingML and OOXML) when worki

(Robert Pittenger) This article is a follow-up to my article Building ASP.NET Pages Dynamically in the Code-Behind. The previous article presented the concept and included a very basic example. This article shows how to implement a more complicated sample project – collecting data from a form and di

(Bipin Joshi) Since their introduction ASP.NET application services are popular and widely adopted means to implement membership, profile and role based security in web applications. Starting from .NET framework 3.5, Windows applications can also avail these features under the banner of Client Appli

(Timothy Khouri) Due to the disconnected nature of the web, developers have often wondered how to display certain metrics such as a real-time progress bar. This article will show you how to easily build a real progress bar that actually reports progress of a process running on the server using ASP.N

(Suprotim Agarwal) At some point or the other, we as ASP.NET developers, have faced the requirement of reading and writing images to the database. We have seen loads of articles floating on the internet which discusses about storing and retrieving images from the database. Some of them are good. How