(Jim Mischel) Remoting is a very easy way to get a distributed application up and running. However, there are some hidden costs to making remote calls, and if you’re making a lot of remote calls those hidden costs can add up to some serious time. One such cost is that of waiting for a method to retu

(Paul Kimmel) Archimedes said: “Give me a place to stand and a lever long enough and I will move the world.” Archimedes was referring to the potential power of tools to magnify the amount of work that can be done. Generic delegates and Lambda Expressions are tools. These tools magnify the amount of

(Xianzhong Zhu) In my previous article entitled Explorer Ways to extend ASP.NET AJAX Client-side Function, we only, from the client side’s point of view, focused on adding the client-side functionalities and behaviors to the current ASP.NET AJAX framework. However, creating custom ASP.NET AJAX clien

(Ged Mead) I saw a couple of unrelated questions on vbCity recently – one was about PropertyInfo and the other was in regard to Colors – and seeing them reminded me about how easy it is to use PropertyInfo to get access to and list all the 141 named Colors. There are of course other ways of doing

(Irina Medvinskaya) Developers often need to define a method with the same name that may perform different functionalities. In order to do that, you should use the Overloads keyword in .NET. In this quick tip, I look at an example function that performs different sets of functionalities with the sam

(Bipin Joshi) In the previous lesson you learnt to develop a basic control. Your control inherited from the Control base class and emitted some HTML markup by overriding the Render() method of the base class. Though the control worked fine it lacked one important feature – support for formatting pro

A page in an ASP.NET application consists of several server controls. These are the fundamental building blocks of an ASP.NET application. The Life cycle of an ASP.NET page, depends on whether the page is requested for the first time or it is a postback. Postback is a process by which a page can req

(Satheesh Babu) This article covers how to deploy ASP.NET Application in the production environment. It takes you through some of the concepts like application pool, why we need it and Configuring Application pools. At the end the author discusses some of the common problems that may arise during de

(Jay Miller) If you need to pass an unknown number of arguments to a method, the params keyword is exactly what you need. With params, you can pass a variable number of parameters to a method and any parameters after the fixed parameters will be collected into an array and passed to your method. You

(Albert Raiani) Learn how to use the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools Second Edition for the 2007 Microsoft Office System to add drag-and-drop functionality to your custom .NET Framework application.