(Chris Peiris and Dennis Mulder) This article discusses Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) hosting options and consuming WCF services. The traditional ASMX Web services were hosted only on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). The hosting options for WCF services are significantly enhan

(Harikrishna S. Aravapalli) Imagine a world where people, machines, products, buildings, computers, food, transport systems and more are all interconnected into a web of objects. The information about them is being captured, processed and analyzed in an event-based environment by an all-powerful, ce

(Abey George Peter) Have you ever tried to called an unmanaged function (eg: MessageBox function inside the User32.dll ) with in a managed code? Let’s try to do that.

(eric2971) Recently, I ran across an issue where I needed to control the background color of the selected items in a Windows Forms ListBox control. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that not only was such a capability not present in the properties, but that the authors of the control seemed to g

(Mark Juras) The purpose of this article is to introduce the concept of a software migration project and compare two migration methodologies.

(Alejandro Gervasio) If you’re looking for a friendly guide on how to implement the template design pattern with PHP 5, then this group of articles might be what you need. Welcome to the final installment of the series that began with “Working with template classes in PHP 5.” As the title indicates,

(Irina Medvinskaya) Developers often deal with various date manipulations in applications. If you need a simple way to figure out how many days there are between two given dates, consider using VB.NET’s TimeSpan object.

(Stephen Toub) When my application attempts to access a file, I get access-denied errors because the file is in use by another application. In the past, I’ve used tools from Sysinternals (microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals) to figure out what that other application is, but I’d like to be able to dis

(Hannes du Preez) In Comparison between VB6 and .NET Objects Part I and Part II, I covered the differences in the Properties Windows and in the Toolboxes respectively. With this article, I will concentrate on the differences in the Visual Basic 6 Project Explorer and the Visual Basic.NET Solution Ex

(Scott Mitchell) The Health Monitoring system in ASP.NET 2.0 is designed to monitor the health of a running ASP.NET application in a production environment. It works by recording event information to a specified log source. The .NET 2.0 Framework includes a variety of built-in events that can be use