(Mark Dryden) Welcome to my course on Strongly Typed Datasets. The intention of this course is to introduce the student to the concept of the Strongly Typed Dataset, its capabilities and advantages in the real world environment. This course is not intended for ADO.NET newbies and *does* require some

(Julia Lerman) Crystal Reports 2008 was released in October 2007. This article (written in Jan 08) explains the ins and outs of the CR2008 versions, integration with VS versions, side-by-side compatibility, upgrading reports and general features of interest to Visual Studio Developers.

(Jon Galloway) ASP.NET 2005 introduced a pretty solid menu which is integrated with a configuration driven sitemap. The cool part is that the menu can be hooked in with your security roles, so you don’t have to worry about hiding or showing menu options based on the user – the menu options are autom

(Matthew Cochran) A while ago I wrote an article about the MVC pattern and just recently received a request for an example closer to a real-world implementation so I thought I would share the approach I have used in live projects.

(Bipin Joshi) Tracing allows you to keep track of various events happening in the system. Tracing allows you to track the sequence of code execution along with the time taken for each step. Together, tracing can throw light on how your code is being executed and the performance of every step. Many r

(Joel Pobar) Compiler hackers are celebrities in the world of computer science. I’ve seen Anders Hejlsberg deliver a presentation at the Professional Developers Conference and then walk off stage to a herd of men and women asking him to sign books and pose for photographs. There’s a certain intellec

(Bill McCarthy) Anonymous types are a new feature of Visual Basic 9 (2008). They provide a quick and easy way to define simple classes for holding values. Both VB 9 and C# 3.0 provide support for anonymous types, but C# supports only immutable anonymous types, whereas VB supports both mutable and im

(Scott Mitchell) Before ASP.NET version 2.0 was released, I wrote a book and dozens of articles on the DataGrid control, which was the most functional data Web control in the ASP.NET 1.x toolbox. While the DataGrid still exists in ASP.NET 2.0, the GridView control serves as a much more functional an

(David Jeavon) I have only just recently had the time to play with the new features available in VS 2008 and one of the first things that I thought I would take a look at were Extension Methods.

(Abhishek Kumar Singh) Remoting is a technology based on communication between one or more different application domains in a distributed environment. It means this enables objects residing on the same domain or computer, else spread among different domains or computers worldwide, to be accessible b