(Kevin Hoffman) Imagine if you will that you have a variable of type List and you are doing some querying on this variable. Everyone, no matter what application they’re writing, will at some point need to write code that retrieves an element from a list. Contains and IndexOf do a pretty go

(Tony Patton) The CSS Friendly Control Adapters 1.0 override the default HTML generated by the ASP.NET Web controls to provide a more standards-based approach to presentation via CSS. I will show you how to use the Menu control in your ASP.NET applications. I begin with an examination of setting up

(Scott Mitchell) ASP.NET 2.0 added a number of built-in client-side enhancements that were missing from earlier versions. Many of these new features were detailed in an earlier article here on 4Guys, Client-Side Enhancements in ASP.NET 2.0. One of the least undocumented yet most helpful client-side

(Jeff Levinson) The list of new and enhanced features in Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 is quite extensive. I’ll start diving into the details of these new features in future columns. In the meantime, this column will focus on some of the new features of Version Control, specifically, Annotate, F

(George P. Alexander Jr.) In my last post (that was a long time ago…was travelling a lot), I had mentioned about common scenario where we developers have made nice looking stored procedures which in real time, would be required to run against fairly large volumes of data or the scenario where it w

(Brian Mains) This article shows how the page and user controls within the page can communicate together with a little more work. It shows how the use of interfaces or custom page classes can make the application more efficient and reduce code.

(Chris Sully) This article is part 2 of the fourth in a series looking at ASP.NET 2.0 though it follows on from my earlier overview articles on the subject. Here’s what we’ve covered thus far: I: we looked at the enhancements to existing controls. II: we proceeded to provide an overview of the

(Shyam Mohapatra) As businesses mature day by day, there is less margin for inefficiencies in the business operation. As the complexity in running a business grows, people are looking for ways to simplify and standardize process, implement corporate governance and extract more value out of informati

(Peyton McCullough) Programming involves manipulating objects. However, often objects are not isolated. Rather, objects often only make sense in context with other, similar objects. Because of this, it becomes necessary to organize objects. There are two methods of organization: arrays and collectio

(Scott Guthrie) Two weeks ago I blogged about a new MVC (Model View Controller) framework for ASP.NET that we are going to be supporting as an optional feature soon. It provides a structured model that enforces a clear separation of concerns within applications, and makes it easier to unit test you