(Vishal Kumar Patil) In many projects we encounter the situation where we need to load controls dynamically on the form, as well as position and align them properly. Generally we do this when we are not sure about the number of fields to be displayed and their text size. Imagine a situation where th

(Jeff Cogswell) Once you understand just how prevalent objects are in JavaScript, you can start to do some pretty powerful things. In this week’s installment on JavaScript programming, I show you how you can extend the built in objects in JavaScript.

(Brian Prince) Monster.com, TJX, Pfizer—the list of companies and organizations affected by database breaches grows bigger and badder every week, but most enterprises remain focused on the perimeter and ignore the database.

(Scott Mitchell) The polling User Control examined in the first two installments (Design Decisions and the Data Model and Building the Polling User Control) is functionally complete at this point. A page developer can add, edit, or delete new polls and poll answers by manually inserting, updating, o

(Jacques Guillaumier) Cross Site Scripting (or XSS) is one of the most common application-layer web attacks. XSS commonly targets scripts embedded in a page which are executed on the client-side (in the user’s web browser) rather than on the server-side. XSS in itself is a threat which is brought ab

(Glyn Heatley) A primary objective of any analytic architecture is business enablement – the ability to provide business users with access to quality information that can be used to drive decision-making. The analytic architecture, in the simplest terms, helps turn operational data into information

(Timothy Ng) Lambda expressions, new in Visual Basic 2008, are a handy addition to any programmer’s toolbox. They are callable entities that are defined within a function, and they’re first-class citizens; you can return a lambda expression from a function and you can pass lambda expressions to othe

(Dennis Wallentin) All my managed COM Add-ins solutions extensively use Windows forms. With .NET it’s very easy to create help that are directly associated with Windows forms which I hope this blogpost also will show.

(Chris Neeman) The first of the Framework components that we are going to be looking at is central authorization. This component contains two classes, the login and logout classes. Not only do these classes log a user in and out, they also record the times and dates that a user logged in and logged

(Kevin Hoffman) When you go to debug anything that runs underneath IIS7 through Visual Studio 2008, if you’re using Windows Vista, then you have probably run into the error message “Unable to start debugging : strong name validation failed.” This is an extremely annoying message and obviously you ne