(Paul Kimmel) Get the step-by-step details on how to use nested grids in .NET to provide rich web-client presentations. (video)

(Steve Hall) This article shows how to customize the installation of a windows service in Visual Studio 2005 to prompt for a service account username and password. This process involves combining several separate techniques than can each be used for other purposes (like passing setup screen values t

(Becky Nagel) In his VSLive! preconference workshop on Monday, .NET author and consultant Paul Sheriff, president of PDSA, gave his full-day “Architecting ASP.NET” presentation to a ballroom full of attendees. We caught up with Paul right after his talk to find out more about the challenges — and o

(Scott Mitchell) Email serves as a ubiquitous, asynchronous notification and information distribution system. Not surprisingly, there are many web development scenarios where server-side code needs to generate an email and scuttle it off to the intended recipient. Previous articles here on 4Guys hav

(Michael Youssef) If you haven’t used T-SQL stored procedures before with SQL Server and in your ASP.NET 2.0 pages then you need to read this article. Today I will answer questions like the following: what is a stored procedure? How can I create a stored procedure? How can I use it from within my AS

(Mark Dryden) On forum today I saw an interesting post where I had advised the ORPO that a datareader could be binded to combobox, having worked on ASP.NET for the past months now its easier than falling over as you can use the ‘DropDownList’ object. However, for the Windows Combobox object (regardl

(Jim Duffy) From basic, static HTML pages to totally data-driven and data-centric Web applications, the demands on a Web developer are much more complex and demanding than they were just a few years ago. The advent of social networking sites like MySpace, which is written in ASP.NET 2.0; interactive

(Tony Patton) While HTTP modules have been a part of ASP.NET since its inception, I still encounter developers with no idea of their existence or usage. HTTP modules allow you to process incoming requests and outgoing responses to and from an ASP.NET application. This article offers a closer look at

(Arno) In database design, a clustered index defines the physical order in which data rows are stored on disk (Note: the most common data structure for storing rows both in memory and on disk are B-trees, so the term “page” can also be interpretated as “B-tree leaf node” in the following text, altho

(Bruce Armstrong) Microsoft recently released the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0 in order to allow “developers to incorporate VB.NET Forms and Controls into their VB6 applications.”