(John Charles Olamendy) This article is the first one part of a series of articles intended to illustrate the principles and applications of Microsoft Biztalk Server. The integration of enterprise applications have been a desirable goal of many organizations for years. With the consolidation of conc

(Michael Youssef) In this article we will use methods of the SqlCommand class to insert and update data. We will look at a technique for making sure that the Close() method of the SqlConnection and the SqlDataReader classes is called even when an exception is raised.

(Rachel Wireman) Interacting with Microsoft Office (as well as taking advantage of the mountains of built-in classes and functions) can be a powerful addition to your business applications. You can perform highly valued operations using the interoperability assemblies that ship with Office products

(Lars Powers and Mike Snell) The majority of this book focuses on unlocking the productivity promises of the Visual Studio IDE. However, we thought it important to also cover some of the recent advances in the .NET languages and the Framework. These items (the IDE, the languages, and the Framework)

(Scott Guthrie) One of the questions I get asked fairly regularly is: “how can I can easily change different configuration settings in my web.config file based on whether my application is in a dev, qa, staging or production mode?” The most common scenario for this is one where an application uses

(Usama Mosaad) During the implementation process, building applications with consistent code is considered one of the main objectives, which the development team aims to, because it affects the final product quality. Consistent code is the term that means writing code that follows the coding best pr

(Ann Jose) This article describes the philosophy behind the Open Source DotSVN library and how the same can be used to connect to a Subversion File repository from .NET applications.

(Mike McIntyre) Visual Basic 2008 extension methods enable you to “add” functionality to existing types without creating a new derived type.

(Jason Schmitt) Source code reviews and inspections have long been considered economical methods for rooting out functional and design flaws in code even before applications make their way to testing. As security has grown in importance, and with the advent of web applications and professional hacke

(Jim Mischel) Among the many interesting and useful things added in version 2.0 of the .NET Framework was the Predicate generic delegate. It’s not especially exciting by itself, but when you combine it with new methods in the Array and List classes, it becomes quite useful.