(Debjani Mallick) Java is a purely object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in 1991. Initially it was named “Oak” by Games Gosling and his team. In 1995, it was renamed as Java. Being an object oriented language, it has the features of object oriented programming language e

(Ged Mead) As I’ve said on many occasions in the past, it’s those sometimes tiny little Gotchas that will cause you the greatest amount of aggravation. Here’s one that I’ve been meaning to blog for a while now. It’s a question/problem that comes up fairly often and it usually goes something like thi

(Scott Guthrie) I’m just about to hop on the flight back to Seattle after finishing up a 10 day business trip to Europe where I spoke at conferences and user group events in Budapest, Amsterdam and Zurich. Although trips like these are a little exhausting, I find them really valuable as a way to co

(Alf A. Pedersen) Actually, much relies on the application architechture. In the real old days, computers worked with dumb terminals – that is, the screens were just screens; everything happened at the central site. IBM was big; you filled out a form of some sort, then you transmitted it to a centra

(Paul Avery) PHP, ASP.NET, JSP, and Ruby on Rails (RoR) are the four most prevalent server-side scripting languages found today on the world wide web. A server-side language processes information on a web server and then returns the processed information to a client’s web browser. Any form you see o

(Ged Mead) Let’s face it, ease of printing in VB.NET has never been its main selling point. In fact, because you literally have to draw most of what you want transferred to paper (or save some kind of screen capture to an image file and then print that), it really can be a bit of a pain.

(Michael Livshitz) The ObjectDataSource control can help you significantly reduce lines of your code (and “save” your time!) that you need to write in order to bind the data-bound controls in the presentation layer and the class that retrieves data from the database. Main steps of using ObjectDataSo

(Scott Guthrie) You have built an ASP.NET Web Application using Visual Studio 2005, and want to enable customers to automatically install and deploy it on servers via an easy setup program.

(Rahul Saxena) Delegates are the function to pointer. A delegate keeps the reference of function. Like as pointer in C/C++, same in C# we have delegates. Delegates in C# are reference types. They are type safe, managed function pointers in C# that can be used to invoke a method that the delegate ref

(Alex Homer) In Article 1 of this series, you saw how to create a custom configuration section in a Web.config file and access it using a custom provider. That solves the problem of where to store configuration information and how to use it in your applications, but it doesn’t address another proble