(Jeff Cogswell) I’m always surprised when I find open source and even commercial libraries where the authors have a note in the readme or web page that says something like, “The next version will add multi-threaded support.” Many of these libraries are intended for ASP.NET, and having no multi-threa
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Resuscitate Your .NET Programs with the Application Recovery and Restart API
(Seth Livingston) icrosoft has gone to great lengths to help you make your software applications more appealing to users. You can create rich user experiences with Windows Presentation Foundation, smooth web applications with ASP.NET AJAX, data friendly applications with LINQ, and much more. But whe
Looping Statements in VBScript
(Nilpo) As you begin to create more complex scripts with VBScript you will develop the need to repeat sections of your code in order to repeat some actions. Looping statements provide a device for repeating code segments.
A Guide to Basic Computer Forensics
(Tom Cloward and Frank Simorjay) There are countless ways malicious people can use a computer to perform illegal activity—hacking into systems, leaking trade secrets, unleashing new viruses, using phishing messages to steal personal information, and so on. And we are constantly hearing about new exp
Dissecting ASP.NET Version 3.5’s Web.config File
(Scott Mitchell) In November, Microsoft released the final version of ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. As discussed in An Overview of ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008, version 3.5 is not a major reworking of the .NET Framework. Rather, it adds new classes and functionality on top of the existin
Crystal Reports in ASP.NET
Crystal Reports is the standard reporting tool for Visual Studio .NET used to display data of presentation quality. You can display multiple-level totals, charts to analyze data, and much more in Crystal Reports. Creating a Crystal Report requires minimal coding since it is created in Designer inter
Automated .NET Hang Analysis
(Tess Fernandez) In my constant effort to make my job obsolete, I have created an “add-in” for windbg that automatically checks for hang conditions in a .NET memory dump.
ASP.NET Caching
(James Sullivan) In this article, I would like to share my experience and knowledge about ASP.NET Caching and how it can improve your website performance. As you all might know that performance is key requirement for any application or piece of code that you develop. For mission critical website, Ca
VBScript: Multidimensional Arrays, Statements, and Commenting
(James Payne) We left off discussing variables and arrays in our last tutorial. I hinted at the existence of the mighty multi-dimensional array, but ran out of time before I could discuss this beast. However now I have an entire article to fill, so prepare to be amazed…multidimensionally.
Create A Data Access Layer (DAL) without writing any code
(Martin Millar) You spend a lot of your time writing very repetitive code just to grind out standard objects that mirror your database tables and all of the CRUD operations that goes along with this. If only there was a way to take care of this and allow us to dive straight into the business logic a
