(Tess Fernandez) If you use mixed mode dlls (assemblies with .net and c++ code) you need to take care to not have any .net entry points so that you don’t end up with a GC/LoaderLock deadlock like this one.

(Scott Guthrie) One of the core priorities we focused on when building IIS 7 was to enable a rich .NET extensibility model that provides developers with the hooks to easily plug-in and extend the web server.

(Bilal Haidar) In part two of this series, we demonstrated the authentication and authorization by developing an ASP.NET 2.0 web application to host the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Extensions Application Services. After that, we created a Windows client application that was enabled for authentication and a

(Jay Miller) Today’s tip is a very simple one, but if you are like me you will find yourself using it frequently. Do you have string literals that are filled with escape characters because they include characters that have a special meaning? One of the most common places you will find this is in fil

(Bill McCarthy) The .NET Framework provides managed libraries for many Windows APIs, but there are still many Windows APIs that aren’t in the .Net libraries. Today, you have to write wrappers for the unmanaged calls if you want to take advantage of Windows Vista’s new APIs, create a VPN connection,

(Tess Fernandez) This is the last debugging lab in the .NET Debugging Demos series. By now you should have the basics down for troubleshooting hangs, perf issues, memory leaks and crashes in .net applications. Hope you have enjoyed your debugging sessions.

(Matthew Cochran) This article covers different syntax we can use for declaring and executing methods.

(Ken Getz) I feel that all my life, I’ve been channeling Rodney Dangerfield (may he rest in peace). For those of you too young to remember ol’ Rodney, he was a comedian, most famous during the ’80s, whose catchphrase was “I don’t get no respect.” When you hear someone refer to Rodney Dangerfield as

(AzamSharp) A while back an article was published on www.gridviewguy.com which explained how to add a single row at the bottom of the GridView control. You can read the article using this link. Many readers were interested in the idea of adding multiple rows to the GridView. This article explains ho

(Kenneth Downs) Yesterday was Easter, one of those holidays that affects my schedule for preparing these essays. So this week we are going to interrupt the series on queries and do a special essay on constraints. Next week we will be back to queries.