(George Walsh) AS/400-based independent software vendors (ISVs) are finding it increasingly difficult to sell their wares to new customers. Many companies will not accept a legacy platform such as the AS/400 when there are more modern environments, such as Windows and .NET, which utilize hardware wi

(Rick Leinecker) I recently went to a training seminar in order to learn how to use Microsoft Office 2007. It’s a great package, but what really impressed my was its capability to turn images into text with almost no effort. This technique is known as Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and it has

(Bipin Joshi) Many months ago I wrote an article title that demonstrated the use of DataList and DataGrid controls to create master detail pages. ASP.NET 2.0 introduced GridView control supersedes the older DataGrid control and adds many enhancements. In this article I am going to show how master d

(Scott Guthrie) Yesterday the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit team released an updated version. You can download it from the http://ajax.asp.net web-site, and run samples built with it on the online samples page here.

(Wei-Meng Lee) My previous article discussed the new Application Settings feature in Windows Forms 2.0. The article demonstrated this feature using C#. However, the application settings feature is also available in Visual Basic. Thus, this article continues my exploration of this new feature, this t

(Frank Kettenstock) Effective capacity planning delivers the strategic insight necessary to maximize the utilization of existing resources, while proactively planning for future needs. Part one of this two-part article discussed the benefits of storage capacity planning and the consequences of poor

(Paul Kimmel) Many years ago, while working on a Delphi project, a team member made an assertion about his code relative to everyone else’s. He said that his code represented best practices, and anyone who wasn’t coding the way he was was unprofessional. In short, “everyone but me is stupid.” He got

(Alex Homer) This article shows how you can take advantage of the validation features within the Validation Application Block, part of version 3.0 of Enterprise Library, in your ASP.NET applications. The block supports both UI and object validation, and you can combine these approaches using the sam

(Rick Leinecker) I remember those error codes we used to have to handle and interpret in the early days of Windows programming. There are a lot of system error codes, the Winsock errors, for example, are up in the 10,000s.

(Steve Dunn) This article describes one simple solution for achieving interoperability between Windows Workflow (WF) and ASP.NET. It leverages the power of WF’s powerful visual logic to design page-flow based on user choices. Without WF, enforcing page flow would most likely entail hard-coding such