(Scott Guthrie) Over the last few weeks I’ve been writing a series of blog posts that cover LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SQL is a built-in O/RM (object relational mapper) that ships in the .NET Framework 3.5 release, and which enables you to model relational databases using .NET classes. You can use LINQ

(Irina Medvinskaya) Whenever you need to allow a user to open a particular file without forcing the user to type the full path and file name, you can use the OpenFileDialog class. OpenFileDialog has a number of properties and methods that make it a flexible way to get users to pick a file. In this t

(Jim Mischel) With the exception of interlocked operations, the synchronization primitives we’ve discussed to this point are native to .NET, and work only within a single application domain. Monitor and ReaderWriterLock are simple and effective, and in most .NET programs make up the majority of the

(Kevin Hoffman) I recently got to dig into LINQ to SQL for a little while. I’d been spending a lot of time with Astoria and LINQ to Entities, but as we know – Astoria and the Entity Framework don’t currently work on VS 2008 Beta 2, so the only choice left when Astoria is missing is to write an .asmx

(Scott Mitchell) Many websites include some sort of polling user interface through which visitors can cast their vote on the topic du jour. The typical polling user interface includes some question text, like “What is your favorite programming language?”, along with a series of radio buttons listing

(Matt Goebel) If you are a developer, and have been for longer than six months, there is a good chance you have written an application or two before Microsoft’s latest creation, Vista, came onto the scene. If you are a perfect developer, one who has never strayed from all the coding guidelines, has

(Tony Patton) My examination of ASP.NET site map navigation controls — Site Map, SiteMapPath, and TreeView — wraps up this week with coverage of the Menu control.

(Bill Stallings) A statistical database (SDB) is one that provides data of a statistical nature, such as counts and averages.

(Jay Miller) This week, I’m passing along a tip I ran across several months back when trying to track down some resources that weren’t being released as I expected. Normally, you can let .NET’s garbage collection take care of cleaning up after your objects, unless you are using unmanaged resources s

(Mike Gold) Global warming is an indisputable fact and the unfortunate by-product of lax industrial regulation and poor consumer education. Another discernible truth is global shrinking. Conversely, global shrinking is a good thing. Human communication is no longer impeded by distance. We can condu