(srego) It was not readily obvious to me how to compare references (pointers) to an object to see if both references are pointing to the same object in VB.NET.

(Kazi Manzur Rashid) For the last few days, I have been trying to get my hands dirty with the new ASP.NET MVC framework. I saw many discussions on some of the advanced topics like IoC Container/DI, View Engine, Controller factory and so on, but I could not find a simple application to harness the po

(Neil Knobbe) I was taking a look at working with a WPF application the other day when I found, what I thought, was a really neat feature of Visual Studio 2008.

(Michael Sorens) Diagnostics, also known as “program tracing,” is a crucial—and often overlooked and underappreciated—component of application development. I have long been an ardent believer in diagnostic support, and have written diagnostic systems from scratch for a diverse assortment of software

(Jay Miller) LINQ provides a flexible means to work with your data that wasn’t available before. You now have access to SQL-like capabilites that you can apply to your own data types or to built-in data types. In this tip, you will learn how to sort your data and how to reshape the data that your LI

(Jim Mischel) The IFormattable interface implemented by the .NET basic types allows you to format numbers in many different ways, including adding commas, specifying the number of digits after the decimal point, currency, scientific notation, and others. In the .NET CLR, all of those number formatti

(David Catherman) The binding source component in Visual Studio 2005/2008 Windows Forms provides a valuable service for data driven applications by providing automatic data binding between controls and the data source. This article shows how the functionality can be extended to add a few features to

Reports are used by business for various management purposes. Crystal reports is very versatile and easy to use reporting tool that is bundled with the Microsoft Visual Studio .Net. There have been many enhancements in the latest version of crystal reports which make it simpler for developers to exp

(Bilal Haidar) In part one of this series, we have introduced to you the ASP.NET 2.0 application services including Membership, Role, and Profile services. These services can be configured in a matter of few minutes inside the Web.config configuration file and you can start making use of them in you

(Tony Patton) There are many options when it comes to placing text on an ASP.NET Web form. You may type the text directly within the page markup, use a Label control, or use a TextBox control to name a few.