(Paul D. Sheriff) Some programming issues are universal. For example, every developer must deal with the question of whether a user has changed any values on a given form, for the purpose of determining whether the data must be saved back to the database. There’s no point saving data back if it hasn

(Jay Miller) I’m a huge fan of the visualizers that Visual Studio provides. They provide a wealth of information in a way that does not get in the way and are an invaluable asset when debugging. There are times, however, when looking at objects during an interactive debugging session isn’t appropria

(Rani Osnat) Although databases have been around for a long time, it is only in recent years that particular attention is paid to database security, and even so, this has been progressing slowly. Driven mostly by the need for regulatory compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and other legal and regulatory r

(Jim Mischel) One of the truisms of search is that if you search for something once, you’re likely to search for it again. In addition, some things are searched for much more often than others. It makes sense, then to cache the results for the most common searches so that you don’t have to query the

(Rod Stephens) Direct3D is Microsoft’s high-performance, three-dimensional graphics library. Using Direct3D, you can build amazing scenes containing hundreds or even thousands of three-dimensional shapes, three-dimensional charts and graphs, surfaces that change in real time, and even arcade-style a

(Scott Guthrie) Last week we shipped Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5. This release is a big one for .NET, and delivers a ton of new capabilities and improvements for web, client, office and mobile development.

(Brian Mains) The label control is a simple control for rendering output or other HTML-based content. Overall, the label is somewhat limited in what it can do, as compared to the other .NET controls. For instance, a label can only render the text it has been given, and can show/hide that text. What

(Paul Kimmel) First the architect created partial classes. Partial classes were deemed good, so next the architect created partial methods.

Data Visualization is of immense importance these days. In this tutorial we will graphically visualize a data set (iris) uploaded by user. Iris data set can be downloaded as a part of Data Visualization sample project, used in this tutorial.

(Jon Galloway) Visual Studio 2008 has been out for over a week. I’ve upgraded three machines (two Vista, one XP) from Beta 2 to RTM, then upgraded a couple of projects. I’ve also been watching blog posts and listening in at the Twitter water-cooler to hear about other developers’ experiences, proble