(Tony Patton) One of the trickier aspects of development is working with sensitive data such as social security numbers, employee identification numbers, and so forth. The .NET Framework includes cryptography functionality, but it is often overkill for smaller applications. Beginning with .NET Frame

(Szymon Machajewski) In this article we will discuss some of the challenges of estimating cluster sizes in high availability systems.

(Jeff Langr) Some developers hold design patterns up as a lofty standard, an ideal. I’ve even seen some developers worship patterns so much that they were lax to use them on anything but a high-visibility implementation. On the contrary, many design patterns should really be used fairly frequently,

(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

(Peter Aitken) I think that the tools that the .Net Framework provides for text output are truly impressive. Even so, the precise positioning of text remains problematic. This is the first of two articles that explore tools and techniques for positioning text output. Let’s start with some background

(Rick Garibay) Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is a collection of architectural principles combined to integrate new and existing applications both within the enterprise and in business to business or partner integration scenarios.

(Tess Ferrandez) Last week I was helping a colleague of mine with a viewstate case that turned out to be pretty interesting…

(Edmund H Smith) Many developers hate one thing about software development, writing SQL Statements. SQL is a language on its own and it is ubiquitous in today’s development environment. When there are changes made to the tables, we have to modify the affected SQL statements, be it in the application

(Arup Duttaroy) Part 1 detailed the foundational elements of quality assurance (QA) and discussed the importance of documentation in change management and quality reviews. Part 2 is an in-depth discussion of the QA organization.

(Rahul Saxena) In this article, I am going to show how we can add a column value in a DataGrid. To add a column value in this programme I am using a function. In the function, I am passing the value of that particular column. Let us see how to do this through the below code.