(Robert Verpalen) Linq, the wonderful new world of querying anything you can create a wrapper around 🙂 By default Linq supports any IEnumerable interface, which means every collection, list, array and a whole range of other objects implementing IEnumerable can be used as a source for Linq quer

(Wei-Meng Lee) If you’re a developer, chances are that you’re no stranger to mailing lists. A mailing list contains of a group of users who are subscribed to receive regular emails pertaining to a specific topic. Usually, the process is automated—you send an email requesting to be added to a list an

(David Consdorf) NHibernate is an ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) solution for .NET that provides an easy to use framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a traditional relational database. Handling the myriad of database queries and stored procedures for large applications can become

(Phillip Piper) All projects suffer creeping featurism, things that start simple and elegant end up as the “before” image in a weight-loss ad. This control has grown considerably since it was first written. For those in a hurry, this control has the following features: –It can easily display a l

(Brian Mains) I see a lot on forums the question being asked about DBNull, and why it may cause problems when you read values from a reader, or try to assign it to a value type. This article delves into DBNull more explicitly and shows the differences between various objects.

(Tony Patton) Even though Microsoft is not always the biggest advocate of standards such as CSS, there is robust CSS support in the latest incarnation of its Visual Studio environment, and CSS is easy to apply in ASP.NET applications — but it could be so much easier. The goal of ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Frie

(Scott Mitchell) In a perfect world, once a web application has been deployed and is live on the Internet or intranet, it will never experience any downtime. However, this is not very realistic in the real world because most applications grow and change and get updated over time. For example, as use

(sandeep) The concept of ASP.NET custom HTTP Handlers is not new, but is a bit overlooked one. Performance-wise, using ASP.NET custom HTTP Handler is an excellent choice over ASP.NET web forms when you don’t need the huge overhead of ViewStates, Page life cycle events and support for postback stuff

(Rod Stephens) The first part of this article provided a detailed description of a StateSelector control that lets users select a state from a map. The map itself is a control property named Map. In the Visual Studio Properties window, the article showed how to use a type converter to display a spec

(William R. Vaughn) I spoke at the local .NET User Group a couple of weeks ago and saw some strangers in the audience. I asked them to introduce themselves and they said they were there recruiting for a consulting company that was doing some work for Microsoft. I asked them to highlight the qualific