(Bipin Joshi) Companies often need a mechanism to showcase their products in the form of a web based slide show. Of course you can use plain JavaScript to develop such slide show but using ASP.NET AJAX makes your life easy. In this article we will develop a simple slide show with the help of page me

(Don French, Tom Bondur, Iana Chatalbasheva, Jane Tatchell and Jason Weathersby) BIRT provides a powerful scripting capability with which a report developer can provide custom code to control various aspects of report generation.

(Irina Medvinskaya) Whenever you need to display data in a console or get it ready to be printed, you may need to align columns for a fixed width display in VB.NET. In this tip, I look at a simple way to pad strings for a fixed width display utilizing the PadLeft and PadRight methods of a String obj

(Matt) You are data binding to a table. One of the columns, say US state, should have a limited domain, but for various reasons, values outside of that range appear. For example, you might be importing the data from a second system that uses the state field for country and state.

(Jason Schmitt) As web application security breaches and attempts rise, developers are increasingly being asked to take more responsibility for the security of their applications, and application framework vendors are building more robust security features into their platform software. Many develope

(Steve Cook, Gareth Jones, Stuart Kent, Alan Cameron Wills and Alan Cameron Wills) This book describes the Microsoft Domain-Specific Language Tools (the DSL Tools). The DSL Tools are part of the Visual Studio SDK, and may be downloaded from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/DSLTools/. The DSL Tools

(Jim Azar) The Master Pages introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 are a great feature, however, they don’t provide a good way to perform the most basic search engine optimization. If you want your web pages to be listed properly and ranked well in search engines, then you need to specify good titles and meta ta

(Chris Kanaracus) Microsoft announced ASP.NET Futures in May of 2007, a collection that includes early versions of new tools for ASP.NET and the Silverlight cross-platform browser plug-in.

(Uday Denduluri) Code access security is a concept of .NET Framework that restricts the execution privileges of the code on the resources and its operations. Usually administrators configure security policy of the code. This is done by sets of permissions with groups of code called as Code Groups. I

(Shari L. Gould) While increasing productivity and efficiency in the editor is important, developers now have a choice to also add an extensive set of user interface controls and frameworks at a remarkable price point that seems to be striking a resonant chord with the Visual Studio .NET community.