(Bipin Joshi) Performance is an important consideration in modern software systems. Developers look for each and every opportunity to fine tune their applications for performance. To that end, ADO.NET connection pooling can significantly help you to write data access code that is performance oriente

(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.

(Nilpo) VBScript—and programming in general—relies very heavily on numeric data. All computer data is stored and processed in binary (numeric) form. However, this data is not limited solely to binary. To properly understand how VBScript operates, it’s important to fully understand numeric data.

(Jeffrey Palermo) On October 6, 2007, Scott Guthrie officially unveiled the ASP.NET MVC Framework at the AltNetConf in Austin, TX. It’s interesting he chose to present it for the first time at this particular venue because the target audience contained some of the most avid open-source software user

(Tom) So often times, we get an exception of interest, either we see it in the Event Log or we see it in a dump and we want to get a dump at the time of the exception to see what was happening. So how do we go about doing that? Well, the answer is, there are a few ways […]

(Bipin Joshi) In majority of data driven applications developers deal with SQL queries that select, insert, update or delete data from the database. However, at times you need to retrieve schema information from the database. Suppose you are building applications that performs data import and export

(John Charles Olamendy) This article is intended to cover one of the most critical responsibilities of database administrators in order to maintain data integrity. I will explain with some examples the main concepts of data backup and recovery in different database management systems.

(Samer Salem) With the new advanced version of ASP.NET, enhancements have been done to the use of validations. One of which is that ASP.NET validations work on most browsers other than Internet Explorer. We will show in this article the six types of validations: RequiredFieldValidator, RangeValidato

(Somnath Dey) Performance tuning can be tricky. It’s especially tough in Internet-related projects with lots of components running around, like HTML client, HTTP network, Web server, middle-tier components, database components, resource-management components, TCP/IP networks, and database servers. P

(Jim Ferguson) The ADO.NET DataTable object contains a lot of useful information that you might not be aware of. For each row in the DataTable you can determine the row’s state (is it original, new, deleted, modified etc.) and you can have access to the “before” values of modified rows as well as th