(Nilpo) Inevitably, as you progress to more complex scripts, your scripts will need to be able to make decisions and take separate actions based upon those conditions. For this, VBScript provides conditional statements.

(Mark Whitehorn) Business intelligence (BI) is becoming an important part of more organizations’ day-to-day operations, and active data warehousing is a prime enabling technology. (R)

(David Consdorf) Spring.Net is a framework aimed at providing comprehensive infrastructural support for .Net enterprise applications. At the core of Spring.Net is the concept of Dependency Injection, otherwise known as Inversion of Control. With the example code provided, you can follow along as you

(Ged Mead) I’ve been experimenting with the interaction between Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend (Version 1 with SP1). One thing I realised early on (right from the Orcas Beta days) is that Blend is a great help when you want to fine tune color gradients, create lines, shapes and paths or cre

(Jim Mischel) In order to allow direct assignment, we need to define implicit conversion operators so the compiler understands that it’s okay to convert an integer type to Int128. The easiest one to write is converting from UInt64 (ulong in C#) to Int128, as shown here:

(Jon Galloway) We made heavy use of the ASP.NET membership and profile system for Video.Show (a Silverlight 1.0 video community website system, available on CodePlex). In addition to storing basic profile information, we created a custom profile with some additional fields. It’s a really easy way to

(Tom) Recently we have seen quite a few issues where the problem turned out to be an orphaned critical section. When you have a dump with this problem you can run the following commands to see this:

(David Catherman) The Dataset Generator in Visual Studio 2005/8 generates a data entity structure that meets the requirements of a good object relation mapper (ORM), except for a couple small areas. This article shows the code that needs to be added to provide tier separation and how it can easily b

(Wei-Meng Lee) One of Silverlight’s key strengths is its ability to provide rich, interactive features. Besides using it to perform cool animations and transformations on graphics and videos, another good use of Silverlight is for developing applications that could not otherwise be developed using c

(Jim Mischel) Since we want the new Int128 to act just like the other integer types, we’ll implement all of the interfaces that the other types implement. The .NET documentation is quite helpful in this regard because it tells us which interfaces those types implement. The Int128 structure definitio