(Bertrand Le Roy) ASP.NET has introduced a very powerful component model for the Web at a time when templating engines were limited to inserting code into markup placeholders. The new level of abstraction aims at reproducing the component and event-based model that was familiar to VB developers on t

(Scott Sehlhorst) UML Class Diagrams can be used not only for documenting software design, but for documenting software requirements. One of the challenges in writing clear, unambiguous requirements is being precise about what a particular word means. This is especially true with symbolic terms like

(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

(Paul Kimmel) The concept of object relational mapping (ORM) is not new. An ORM is a class (called an entity in this context) that has properties or fields that map to database columns. In this article, I will show you how easy it is to use LINQ to SQL to define an ORM, mapping a class to a database

(John Charles Olamendy) Sometimes we’re developing applications that require performing searches against database tables in SQL Server 2000/2005. The search must enable using a set of optional parameters (up to 10 parameters for example) as the main search criteria (a null value indicates not to fil

(Kevin Hoffman) First off, let me just say that I’ve been waiting for this day for almost a year now. When Silverlight 1.0 came out, I was terribly disappointed but I was also really eager as well. I saw potential in that JavaScript-only cross-platform runtime. When Silverlight 1.1 came out (which I

(Nannette Thacker) This article is the second in a series of step-by-step tutorials that show how to build an ASP.NET page to import an Excel spreadsheet into a database using Typed DataSets and TableAdapters. Last week’s article, Building the Database, started with an overview of the system. We the

(Tess Fernandez) Last week I published a debugging challenge for Lab 5. It was really interesting to see the results and I have to say I was really happy to see the excellent results from the poeple who commented on the debugging challenge (sounds like my work here is done:)).

(Wei-Meng Lee) With the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft has also updated the VB language to its latest version, 9.0. In VB 9.0, there are several key language enhancements that have been made to support the new Language Integrated Query (LINQ) feature announced earlier by Microsoft. This ar

(Dave) This article gives an overview of the platform invoke service in order to show how managed code calls a native function contained in a DLL. Assume your application might need to take control of Microsoft Office Excel and perform a processing routine. Because the Excel library is not written i