(Irina Medvinskaya) Whenever you write the code logic that may be used for more than one control, it makes sense to try to save time by creating only one procedure that will handle the event and perform that logic. In this tip, I show you a way to share the event logic for multiple controls on a VB.

(Aleksey Shevchenko) This article is designed to introduce you the concepts of isolation levels—the concepts that every database programmer needs to know to develop applications that allow multi-user access to the database.

(Tess Fernandez) Normally I write about issues that only manifest themselves in production environment, issues that you can’t really reproduce in a controlled dev environment every time you perform a certain action. In those cases you need to use tools like windbg to gather dumps and do post-mortem

(Jim Mischel) When you make the decision to use compression in your program, the next thing you have to decide is which compression method you’re going to use. This can be a difficult decision that depends on a several factors: cost of the compression package, time to implement, compression ratio, a

(Wei-Meng Lee) Creating reports is one of the most common things developers are asked to do when building a typical business application. Businesses want to know how well a product has sold, the sales total for the month, the inventory status, etc. All these require specialized tools for easily gene

(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

Consider the following scenario: • You have a Windows Form application in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 on a computer that is running Windows Vista 64-bit edition. • You create a DataGridView control. Then, you bind the DataGridView control to a Microsoft Access database. • You run the applic

(Rachel Wireman) In my last article on this topic, you learned how to interact with Outlook via your WinForms applications. In this article, you will explore how to extend the functionality of Outlook with your custom code. The business value here is clear: Give your users an environment in which th

(Tony Patton) The Menu control includes static elements displayed on the page and dynamic items or menus that appear when the user selects a particular menu element. It also supports displaying data from a hierarchal data source control. Elements may be defined in a data source or programmatically a

(Doug Thews) Users should be able to print order confirmations, invoices, and the like directly from your Web application. And no, the old Shift + Print Screen approach from the 3270 mainframe emulation screen days won’t cut it, for the same reason that the JavaScript window.print() command often wo