(Scott Wisniewski) I’ve always had a bit of a fascination with drawing maps. I also think that Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic 9.0 are amazing. As a result, when I got the opportunity to play around with Visual Studio and then write an article about it, I figured the perfect topic would be a tut

(Paul Kimmel) For the most part, I’ll assume you have a basic idea of what a Lambda Expression is. I will provide a very quick overview, but the focus is on the difference between Lambda Expressions that are emitted as code and those that are emitted as expression trees and what their different uses

(Scott Guthrie) I’ve helped a few people over the last week who have run into issues with VS 2008 where it would immediately crash when the IDE was launched, or upon creating new projects (usually failing with a “Visual Studio has encountered an unexpected error” dialog).

(Ged Mead) So Visual Studio 2008 is finally here! After what seems like a long time using Betas, VS 2005 extensions and various other weirdly named WIPs, it’s great that the full, final version has arrived.

To give a same look to the overall site Master Pages are used since long. They give you the power to customize your web pages but keeping the same overall look of the website as well. To add to this, one of the cool advanced features of the new Master Pages feature in ASP.NET 2.0 is the ability to n

(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET membership, role and profile features make it easy to develop a membership driven web site. However, equally important is a way to administer and manage the users registered with the web site. If you have managed any membership driven web site then you would be familiar with th

(Rick Sherman) Data warehousing (DW) and business intelligence (BI) have been evolving and getting more sophisticated over the years. As IT folks, consultants and analysts gain more experience, they often share those experiences when they work at other companies, publish articles or conduct training

(Jason Gilmore) In the first installment of this two-part series, you examined the data validation features available within the Rails framework’s Active Record implementation. Among other tasks, you learned how to use built-in methods such as validates_presence_of() and validates_length_of() to pla

(Nikhil Kothari) Hopefully everyone had a good few days off. Before the holiday break, I did some app-building on top of the ASP.NET MVC framework. Actually rather than building some sort of fancy app, instead I was prototyping some features on top of the framework bits slated for an initial release

(Scott Mitchell) On November 19, 2007, Microsoft officially released the ASP.NET version 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Like with the progression from ASP.NET 2.0 to 3.0, the features in ASP.NET 3.5 are additive, meaning that the core assemblies installed from the .NET Framework version 2.0 are still u