(Sajad Deyargaroo) Graphical User Interfaces have become the most preferred user interfaces among the computer users. GUIs have made the work with computers much easier without any need to type all the commands on keyboard as in text-based user interface. Microsoft started experimenting with GUI sin

(Jay Miller) I have run across some old code recently where some classes exposed public variables directly to the outside world. Even though the code works, it is very fragile. The code looked something like this: public class Person { public string Name; public int Age; }

(John Peterson) When people talk about error handling in ASP.NET, they’re almost always referring to either the Try…Catch…Finally syntax or the use of ASP.NET custom error pages. While both of these technologies are godsends, they’re not your only options. You can also handle errors programmatic

(Irina Medvinskaya) If you want to allow users to print form components in run-time, the PrintDocument component lets you offer users this functionality. The PrintDocument component is an object that allows users to send an output to a printer from Windows Forms applications. In this tip, I show you

(Tim Patrick, Steven Roman, Ph.D., Ron Petrusha and Paul Lomax) In this second part of a two-part article, you will learn about comparison operators, the like operator, and more.

(Tess Fernandez) When you debug asp.net applications it is often useful to find out which requests are currently executing, how long they have been executing, what the querystring was etc. Since getting this information from a dump can be a long and tedious process even if you know what you are doin

(A.P.Rajshekhar) Bluetooth is a way to connect devices wirelessly. This technology has a variety of uses. Python is an easy to learn scripting language that has been growing in popularity. The two can work well together, as will be explained in this article.

(Tim Patrick) Welcome to .NET! I might as well have said, “Welcome to the Solar System,” because like the solar system, .NET is huge. And it’s complex. And it’s filled with black holes and other things that don’t always make sense. Yet it (.NET, not the universe) turns out to be a fantastic system i

(Irina Medvinskaya) VB.NET developers are often tasked with having to display a lot of necessary information on the screen with limited space. If you can split the data on the screen logically into different sections, you should consider using the Tab Control. In this tip, I will show you how to use

(Ryan Steele) While many organizations have been getting better at ensuring quality within CRM applications and understand the importance, they still struggle with the critical task of testing data warehouses and marketing databases. This column talks about some best practices regarding data warehou