(Scott Davis) I had a very interesting requirement on one of the pages I was working on in my latest project recently. It of course had to render correctly in both the latest version of IE and Firefox. Not too difficult to do. It had to use our existing masterpage. Ok, again, not difficult at all.

(Shaun Eutsey) New technology is wonderful. I love going into things and looking at the nuts and bolts and figuring out how things work. This has led my wife to many hours of despair as I have tried to “fix” things that were not working too well. One thing was guaranteed, after it has been “fixed,”

(Dina Fleet Berry) When uploading a file to a web server, the upload process generally requires the incoming file to be stored in memory until the upload is complete. If an uploaded file is larger than the available memory, memory usage in general and performance in particular will suffer.

(Irina Medvinskaya) In order to implement shortcut menus for a form, you can add the VB.NET ContextMenuStrip control to your form. In the design mode, the control will appear on the bottom of the form. When you click the control, you can add menu items to it.

(Dino Esposito) AJAX applications written for the ASP.NET platform work by sending HTTP requests to a server-side back-end. Aside from pages using the partial rendering engine – a sort of interceptor that uses XMLHttpRequest to place classic postbacks – an ASP.NET AJAX page requests data to a remote

(Tess Fernandez) Sometimes you hear and accept advice but you don’t really know the details behind it. That has always been the case with me and high CPU situations caused by badly formatted regular expressions. The reason I haven’t really bothered to find out why is because I’ve never had a case

(Jon Galloway) SharpZipLib provides best free .NET compression library, but what if you can’t use it due to the GPL license? I’ll look at a few options, ending with my favorite – System.IO.Packaging.

(Wei-Meng Lee) Microsoft Expression Blend is a new full-featured design tool for creating highly-interactive and sophisticated Windows application user interfaces using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). With Expression Blend, a designer can design and create the UI of an application without wor

(Scott Mitchell) In AJAX Basics and Getting Started with Microsoft’s ASP.NET AJAX Framework we looked at the basics of the ASP.NET AJAX framework. We discussed how to download and install the framework and the basics of the UpdatePanel. The UpdatePanel makes creating interactive user interfaces as e

(Michael Youssef) If you read any of my previous ADO.NET articles you will find that I used the SqlDataReader class in many of the examples. Today we will talk more about the SqlDataReader class and use its methods and properties. Some of you may wonder how the SqlDataReader class gets access to the