(Scott Roberts and Hagen Green) Let’s say that your IT department has finally completed the AddressBlock template part and distributed it to the entire company. It has been six months, and now hundreds of form templates use this address block. Form template designers love this component because it s

(Brian Mains) Previously, I wrote about Enterprise Library 3 validation in ASP.NET pages, using the existing Validator classes defined in the Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Validation namespace. Through inheritance, it is easy to create your own custom validation and we will look at a few ex

(Andrew Sutton) VB.NET 2005 provides “native” functionality to display a splash screen on application startup. To add a splash screen to a project the follow the steps outlined below: –Add a splash screen form. –Make the application display the splash screen on start up. –Customise the sp

(Dino Esposito) I recently came across a relatively large Web site that was full of extremely simple Web user controls—ASCX files, to be precise. The developers considered this approach necessary after they discovered unexpected behavior in a server control they were using.

(Scott Mitchell) Working with data in ASP.NET version 1.x required writing data access code. This involved establishing a connection to the database, specifying the SQL command, and then executing the command. ASP.NET 2.0’s data source controls greatly simplifies this process by encapsulating the da

(David M. Simmonds) Design Patterns in VB.NET is specifically designed to help Software Architects and Programmers to take advantage of GoF design patterns so that they can build software which is flexible and easy to maintain. You will find that application of the concepts which you learn in this s

(John D.) In this article we’ll create a simple database in Microsoft Access and then create a user interface in Visual Basic 6.0.

(Bipin Joshi) Many months back I wrote an article that explained a trick that allows you to add a new row to DataGrid. Just like DataGrid control the new GridView control doesn’t allow you to add new rows. Developers often use the following techniques to add new rows in such case: –They place a

(Parthasarathy Mandayam) The NEWID() function returns a uniqueidentifier for each row of data that is returned.

(Irina Medvinskaya) Data access is a core of most applications and an ability to efficiently access and modify a database is required for developers on a regular basis. In this article, you will look at accessing SQL-based data utilizing C# and ADO.NET and displaying the data in a data-bound grid co