(Tess Fernandez) This is a bit of a continuation of ASP.NET Memory Issue: High memory usage in a 64bit w3wp.exe process so if you haven’t checked it out you might want to just glance over it before reading this one to get the context of the problem and some notes on 64 bit debugging.

(Zach Smith) There are many instances where you may want to use the information gathered from a performance counter. From memory usage, to ASP.NET page recompilations, there is a wealth of information available from performance counters. The problem comes when you want to use that information in a p

(Brian Mains) The observer pattern is a design pattern, largely popularized by the Gang of Four, which allows objects to receive notifications from another object. Imagine a newsletter signup page, where you can signup for various newsletters that are broadcasted by email. There needs to be the abil

(Josh Fitzgerald) The 2007 TechEd conference had some big announcements concerning Visual Studio. The first announcement introduced the official name of the next version of Visual Studio. Long known as Orcas, the next version has been officially named Visual Studio 2008. The second announcement that

(John Peterson) Microsoft Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" is now Windows Server 2008, though you may not be able to tell from the latest Beta which is still branded as Code Name "Longhorn". Whatever you want to call it, the latest version of Microsoft’s server platform is getting closer to shipp

(Irina Medvinskaya) If you need to show hierarchical data in a tree-like format in VB.NET, you should use the TreeView control. This flexible control allows you to change numerous properties in order to fit your needs. The TreeView control also lets you add nodes and sub-nodes; you have the option o

(Ged Mead) If you glanced at my earlier blog item on WrapPanels you may remember that I raised the question as to whether it was really necessary to have so much laboriously repeated detail for the five buttons, i.e.:-

(Anuva Das) This article is related to my previous article entitled “Creating And Designing Report using iReport – Part 1.” This article explains advanced features such as subreport and crosstab of ireport and how to generate reports using them.

(Tess Fernandez) By default when you run IIS on a 64-bit machine you will still be running a 32-bit w3wp.exe, so apart from a few differences, like being able to use 4 GB virtual bytes instead of 2 GB virtual bytes the difference in debugging an issue on 32-bit vs. 64-bit is not that big. You will

(John Paul Mueller) Many organizations have a mix of .NET and Java code today. Unfortunately, it appears that the two language platforms are incompatible, causing considerable woe for users and developers alike; or are they? The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that you can interact with Ja