(Rod Stephens) See if you can tell what’s wrong with the following sequence: ND, MN, WI, SD, NE, KS, MO, IL, IN. Unless you have a PhD in North American geography, you may have trouble even realizing that there is a potential problem much less finding it. If you take a look at Figure 1, however, the

(Brian Mains) I wrote in a past article about unit testing ASP.NET pages. It is also possible to work with user controls, with some additional considerations. User controls inherit from System.Web.UI.UserControl class; however, it is possible to create an intermediate class, between the UserControl

(Manoj Srivastava and Amit Kataria) Migration from ASP to ASP.NET can drastically improve the performance of your applications. A software created using ASP.NET is more robust, scalable, reliable, and secure as compared to the software created using ASP. ASP.NET, which is a new version of ASP, remov

(Todd Hoff) Alan Watts once observed how after we accepted Descartes’ separation of the mind and body we’ve been trying to smash them back together again ever since when really they were never separate to begin with.

(John Tränkenschuh) I teach Visual Basic. I love it. It’s been good to me, all the way back to VB3. VB usefulness is growing wildly, but why do actual VB coding practices seem to lag a bit?

(Seth Livingston) The Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor (RPM) (see Figure 1) is a new application in Windows Vista that unifies the approach to monitoring real-time and historical reliability and performance data. The Performance Logs and Alerts (PLA) API gives you programmatic access to f

(Irina Medvinskaya) FileSystemWatcher is a component in Visual Studio .NET that allows you to respond to file system changes. It’s very handy whenever you need to perform a certain action in response to a file being updated and in numerous other situations.

(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

(Thiru Thangarathinam) Any application you write may require some sort of caching to meet the performance requirements of the business. Until the release of Enterprise Library, developers were forced to roll out their own caching implementations; however, developers now finally have a standard out-o

(Scott Mitchell) Many data-driven applications have date/time values that are automatically populated with the current date and time. For example, in an online messageboard, whenever a user makes a post the current date and time is recorded and saved with that post. Another example is in application