(Justin Finch) If you have been working with WPF and have had issues with your ComboBox or any list control binding then you can stop pulling your hair out. The problem occurs when you try to bind the SelectedValue property of the control to a Nullable Int (int?).

(Srinivas Jadhav) Since too many resources are shared on the process level (i.e. IIS, inetinfo.exe) and it is too easy for an error to bring down the entire server process, ASP.NET provides an out-of-process execution model, which protects the server process from user code.

(Alan Schlukbier) Recently, several project managers approached me about some common misconceptions about data warehousing. Knowing that I had worked for over 15 years as a consultant and completed over 100 data warehouse contracts, they urged me to publicize what is unique to data warehouse project

(Kuldeep Deokule) A new data bound control integrated in ASP.NET version 2.0 allows for a 3-layer architecture. Using ObjectDataSource control, you can separate the presentation layer, business layer and database layer. Presentation layer contains the web page (UI) while the business layer incorpora

(Jim Mischel) Early in the development of the .NET runtime, the designers made a decision to limit the maximum size of a single object to two gigabytes. That was a reasonable decision back then, considering that a computer with just one gigabyte of RAM was considered a hot machine, and the most prev

(Brian Mains) The ASP.NET framework is made of up custom HTML and Server controls that are the building blocks for developing ASP.NET web applications. Other technologies are highly utilized in the web development process, such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; however, for data-driven or server-based

(Jagadish Chaterjee) This is the first article in a series focusing on programming with Crystal Reports with ASP.NET 2.0. In this article, we will focus on adding a Crystal Report to an ASP.NET 2.0 web site and displaying the same using the CrystalReportViewer control in a number of different ways.

(Alejandro Gervasio) Building PHP applications that interact with different database systems can be a daunting task, especially from a developer’s point of view. To tackle this issue with minor hassles, PHP 5.1 comes bundled with a powerful extension called PDO (short for PHP Data Objects), a librar

(Alex Homer) ASP.NET applications usually rely on two of the standard sections in a Web.config file: the section that holds general configuration and application values, and the section specialized for storing connection details for data providers such as database s

(Greg Low) As soon as ASP.NET systems grow to the point that more than a single Web server needs to be deployed, decisions need to be mode about where the session state will be held. By default, ASP.NET session state lives in the memory of the server hosting the application. The problem with this is