(Wei-Meng Lee) A smart tag is a panel that displays next to a control and contains a list of commonly used properties. For example, in the Visual Studio (VS) editor, the Windows Forms DataGridView control uses a smart tag with the title “DataGridView Tasks” that displays a list of commonly used prop

(Jagadish Chaterjee) This is the third article in a series focusing on programming with Crystal Reports with ASP.NET 2.0. In this article, we will focus on working with Crystal Reports with data sources that include ADO.NET datasets and .NET objects.

(meglio) When you bind DataGridView to a custom business object you probably want to allow to sort by column or by multiple columns. You are able to use BindingSource to bind your data, but this component do not realize sorting functions.

(Jagadish Chaterjee) This article gives you an in-depth understanding of how to use “Shadows” in Visual Basic 2005. You will also see how “overloads” can replace “shadows” in certain situations.

(Robert Chipperfield) When does the static constructor of your .NET class actually get called?

(Peyton McCullough) If you’re looking for a portable .NET language and don’t want to use a C-style syntax, you might want to take a look at Boo. Don’t let the name spook you; if you’re comfortable with Python, you’ll feel right at home with Boo.

(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET GridView control is one of the most popular control when it comes to displaying and editing tabular data. However, when it comes to inserting data the GridView has very little to offer. Using a technique as illustrated in my article titled Inserting a New Row in GridView you ca

(Urs Enzler) This article presents a component that is used to add a sort indication image to GridView columns.

(Bennie Haelen) In this post, we take a lot at how we can use WF Rules to implement simple application extensibility. For some applications, you might want to enhance the flexibility and extensibility of your application without having to invest extraordinary amounts of time in devising and testing

(Ged Mead) This tip barely qualifies as a Gotcha! but I have seen some people get stuck with it, so thought it worth a mention.