(Michael Sorens) Visual Studio gives developers the extraordinary capability to build a database application with a working graphical user interface using just a few mouse clicks. The canonical form of this with VS2005 uses the DataGridView control. Populating the DataGridView requires a round-trip

(Paul Kimmel) There is an impedance mismatch between objects and normalized relational databases. Everyone knows this. Almost everyone has tried to fix it—think object-oriented databases—and some people have gotten famous off of proposed solutions. (Deservedly so or not.) Well, truth be told Microso

(Scott Guthrie) Last month I started a series of posts covering some of the new VB and C# language features that are coming as part of the Visual Studio and .NET Framework “Orcas” release. Here are pointers to the first three posts in my series: –Automatic Properties, Object Initializer and Co

(sathya) When we had the requirement to read the active directory from .Net, for a project, we were left with many questions and grey areas on mind; sadly there was not much info available on googling. After a thorough study by creating many proof of concepts we got a bit comfortable with the same,

(Don Kiely) I don’t know how I missed this for so long, but last week a new ASP.NET security book came to my attention. I’m happy to announce that the book, released late last year, finally fills the void for a definitive guide to writing secure ASP.NET 2.0 applications. The book is Developing More-

(Catalin Sandu) As both a .NET programmer and ColdFusion developer, I always wondered how I could leverage the world of .NET in ColdFusion. Both platforms come with powerful features and using them together might be a wonderful friendship, if one could only make them cooperate. There are two worlds

(Tom Joyce) Getting consistently high performance out of enterprise-class business applications and infrastructure and delivering it on a consistent basis is extremely difficult. A recent InfoPro survey found that 80 percent of enterprise customers experience an “application brownout” – a disruption

(Tony Patton) Developers often need to know certain aspects of a file such as the name, full path, drive, and file extension. The .NET Framework provides easy access to these details via the Path class contained in the System.IO namespace. This article examines the various pieces of information avai

(Partha S) Automating build processes for .Net applications go a long way in ensuring a proper build and makes the build independent of developer habits. It reduces risk by making the build independent of developer’s local machine environment.

(Irina Medvinskaya) Developers use globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) for various reasons, such as assigning unique identifiers to classes or when dealing with databases. GUIDs are the Microsoft implementation of the distributed computing environment (DCE) universally unique identifier (UUID). GUID