(Bipin Joshi) Displaying database records in paged fashion is a common requirement in web applications. ASP.NET 2.0 controls such as GridView and DetailsView have inbuilt paging capabilities. Many developers rely on inbuilt paging to speed up their job. However, inbuilt paging comes with its own pri

(Dennis Wallentin) As a result of that I’m working extensively with ADO.NET I have found another useful (and simple) approach by using the ExecuteScala method to find out if a record exists or not.

(Chris Sully) This article is the fourth in a series looking at ASP.NET 2.0 though it follows on from my earlier overview articles on the subject. Here’s what we’ve covered thus far: I: we looked at the enhancements to existing controls. II: we proceeded to provide an overview of the new control

(Jeffrey Zhao) Cache is one of the most important aspects of building high performance and scalable web applications. As one of the key features in ASP.NET AJAX, calling script method from client would be used a lot when buliding ajax applications using ASP.NET. The following is a sample to show how

(Mark Gendein and Bob Reselman) An architecture that can provide fully functional, data-aware objects that behave consistently regardless of network infrastructure and distributed environment is one of the ongoing dreams of programmers and application architects working in client/server settings. In

(Kevin Tatroe, Rasmus Lerdorf, and Peter MacIntyre) Picking up from where we left off last week, we’ll be discussing shortcuts, query responses, metadata, and more.

(Mike Becker) Microsoft’s 64-bit technology first appeared with Windows Server 2003 for Itanium 2 (also known as IA64 Architecture) and for eXtended technology CPUs (also known as x64 Architecture). It offers many advantages but also raises new issues for the software developer. For example, you may

(brettg) Most non-enterprise applications need the capability to store data locally. Some need only simple storage for things such as settings, whereas others need a full SQL database capability for various needs. I have written many such applications over the years. Until I found SQLite, I had to u

(Kevin Hoffman) I just read that the Silverlight 1.1 next release (they didn’t say if it would be another Alpha or if it would be Beta 1) is going to have some breaking changes in it. This is one of the few times in Microsoft history that I’ve actually been both pleased to see breaking changes and t

(Sudeesh.P) The Win32 hook is a mechanism by which user-defined functions can be intercepted before an event reaches the target application. Hooks decreases system performance due to the additional processing required for each message. So, they should be installed only when necessary and uninstalled