(Jeff Cogswell) If you’re coming from another language knowing what objects and classes are, JavaScript’s own version of objects and classes can be a little frustrating at first. The object architecture in JavaScript is quite different from other languages. But that’s not to say it isn’t useful or p

(Olav Lerflaten) Three years ago I wrote an article here on 4Guys titled ASP.NET Charting Using Office Web Components (OWC) that examined how to use OWC as a charting engine in ASP.NET applications. OWC is still a very powerful charting engine, but unfortunately it carries with it some serious drawb

(John Papa) While Visual Studio 2008, the several variations of LINQ, and the ADO.NET Entity Framework are getting a lot of attention in the upcoming .NET Framework 3.5, there are also several key language enhancements on the near horizon. Many of the language enhancements (which will be found in VB

(Scott Guthrie) One of the big features that web developers will quickly discover with VS 2008 is its dramatically improved HTML designer, and the rich CSS support it brings.

(Cindy Maurer) Data warehousing holds much promise to provide competitive advantage through derived business intelligence, but the promise cannot be realized unless you ensure the integrity of your data. To ensure data integrity you must have end-to-end controls and the ability to identify data anom

(Electronic Screw) Most of the time when developing web applications/projects we find the need to display images on the ASP.NET pages. This can include customer pictures, avatars, location maps or other binary data. One good way of doing this is to have a dummy page called, which writes out the bina

(Jagadish Chaterjee) This is the second article in a series that covers programming with Crystal Reports with ASP.NET 2.0. In this article, we will focus on working with parameters using Crystal Reports and passing the parameter values from an ASP.NET 2.0 web site.

(Jon Kruger) Data binding is a great way to work with data and UI controls, but there is a lot more to it than just setting the DataSource property of a grid. The .NET Framework provides interfaces and components that will let the framework do most of the work for you — as long as you set it up righ

(Tony Patton) Encryption support for configuration files was added to the .NET Framework beginning with version 2.0. Last week’s article focused on using ASP.NET command-line tools for encrypting portions of configuration files, while this week’s article covers coding options. The .NET Framework lib

(Peter DeBetta) I’ve been on a project where we are using Team Foundation Server (TFS). As you may already be aware, Visual Studio (VS) automatically tries to connect to TFS. When I am onsite, this is great, but when I am offsite and not VPN-ed into the client site, VS takes a long time to time out