(Rod Stephens) If you read my DevX article “Beautify Your UIs with Perfect Pen and Brush Control,” then you know all about how to draw lines that are thick or thin; dashed, striped, or solid; beveled, mitered, or rounded; and that have standard or customized end caps. You also know how to fill areas

(Tony Patton) Last week I showed how you can use .NET’s Path class to work with string values representing file and directory paths. This week I’ll concentrate on the directory portion of the path with the Directory class, which you can find in the System.IO namespace. The Directory class provides

(Rich Smith) There are many reasons to utilize sessions when creating a web-based application using PHP. Session information, by default, is stored in a file on your web server. But what if that becomes a problem? In this article, I’ll talk about why you might want to move your PHP sessions to a dat

(Craig McMurtry, Marc Mercuri, Nigel Watling and Matt Winkler) To properly understand and work effectively with the Windows Communication Foundation, one should be familiar with certain facilities of the 2.0 versions of the .NET Framework and the .NET common language runtime. This chapter introduces

(James Crowley) Search engine optimisation is pretty much part and parcel of creating websites these days. Getting the basics right don’t require a large amount of work, but can make all the difference. Many of these also improve the general usability and accessibility of your site too – so you get

(Mahesh Chand) The ReportViewer control provides Find and FindNext methods to find a text in the report. The Find method takes two parameters – the text and the starting page number.

(Bilal Haidar) Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 shipped with a complete membership API that allows developers to manage the application’s users and their roles. However, this API best suits small to medium web sites due to their limitation in expressing a detailed member record.

(Aleksey Shevchenko) The national IT job market has been on the rise the past two years. The hiring statistics over these years have revealed an interesting trend: Companies prefer to hire strong application developers onshore and junior/entry-level developers offshore. Furthermore, hiring managers

(Ian Stirk) Databases are often the primary cause of poor application performance.

(Abey George Peter) MARS is a new feature in ado.net 2.0 and Sql Server 2005 that allows for multiple forward only read only result sets.