(Tony Patton) Most Web developers know better than judging a Microsoft product by its first iteration. For this reason, I was intrigued by the recent beta release of Silverlight 2.0.

(Elissa Fink and Marc Rueter) Business intelligence (BI) today is undergoing a transformation. Historically, BI solutions helped organizations with several key issues, such as routine reporting, alerting and monitoring. However, all of these tasks were based on massive quantities of data stored in c

(Tess Ferrandez) I have written a few posts about stackoverflow exceptions, here, here, here and here. The one I am going to talk about today is one of those unfortunate cases where you are trying to do the right thing and still shoot yourself in the foot.

(Matt Milner) Workflows in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) can be modeled in several ways. Developers model a hierarchy of activities that defines the control flow and program statements to be executed in the workflow.

(Noreen Kendle) As our world has transitioned from an industrial age to an information age, data has become a very valuable resource since it is the raw material used to produce information. In this perspective, data should be as important to a business organization as any traditional asset, probabl

(Tom) A Memory Leak in an IIS process (INETINFO.EXE, DLLHOST.EXE, W3WP.EXE) occurs when Memory Usage in Task Manager continues to consume more than 50% of the physical RAM until running out of system memory or until the process stops functioning.

(Ralph Varjabedian) The TreeView in ASP.NET is a powerful control that helps display hierarchical data. However unlike other controls it does not support binding to a DataSet or an ObjectDataSource. I have seen a lot of developers do this the old fashioned way, filling the tree programmatically, whi

(Michael Ulmann) Using query strings to send data from the browser to the server is a widespread approach. Giving the visitor of a web application the oportunity of modifying them by transmitting them in clear text, is certainly a potential security threat.

(Kenneth Downs) Early in my career, I was fortunate to receive some programming lessons from one of the early pioneers in computer age. While I am sure he would not remember me, I certainly remembered him, and he said one thing that I remember very much: Minimize Code, Maximize Data.

(Oleg Zhukov) Architectural patterns such as Model-View-Controller are gaining more and more popularity nowadays. The reason is simple: they improve applications’ design and raise their maintainability by splitting applications into three layers with distinct responsibilities. However incorporating