(Jim Mischel) The .NET Framework has support for integers and unsigned integers up to 64 bits long. On a 64 bit processor, which has a native 64 bit type, operations on these long integers are very fast. Even on a 32 bit processor, the operations are normally pretty quick because the processor instr

(Jay Miller) Many times, my code has an enumeration defined; it parallels the items that need to be displayed in a list. Keeping the list and enumeration in sync if items are added can be a challenge. To alleviate that problem, I’ll show you a function that you can use to populate a list from the en

(Payton Byrd) Service Oriented Architecture is often used as both a adjective and a noun, but I really believe it is only one of those. Why and why should you care? I’ll tell you!

(Devin Rader) As portals gain in popularity, both as consumer-focused information portals and corporate collaboration tools, developers are increasingly being told to integrate customized portal features. In this article, I’ll take a look at the solutions Microsoft offers for creating Web portals an

(Tess Fernandez) As you already know, I spend my days analyzing dumps for customers, and more often than not I don’t have access to the customer’s code.

(Scott Mitchell) When filling out a form on a web page you have probably experienced the fact that if you hit enter when typing in a single-line textbox the form is submitted. This is a feature that browsers provide to make it possible to submit a form without having to touch the mouse. For example,

(AzamSharp) In the last article Client Callbacks in ASP.NET 2.0 I introduced the concept of remote scripting in ASP.NET 2.0. This article takes one step further and set up a real world problem and solves that problem by using Client Callbacks. This article focus on DropDownList dependencies. Conside

(Jack Vaughan) Even people with hot rod hearts hardly lift the lid on their engines anymore. There is not much in the modern car on which they can work. The same has become true in software engineering. (R)

(Adiseshu Dasari) I am going to present some of best approaches to improve the performance of ASP.NET applications. You should think about the separation of your application into logical tiers. You might have heard of the term 3-tier (or n-tier) physical architecture. These are usually prescribe

(Tony Patton) The buzz around .NET Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) is hard to ignore, especially since Microsoft is embracing it with the latest release of the .NET platform (beginning with C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9.0) and Visual Studio 2008.