(Deborah Kurata) If you have classes in your application, you’ve got it made. If you don’t have classes, no matter what else you have, it won’t make up for it. Classes are central to development in .NET.

(Abdul Sami) Webparts provide us with an easy way to customize our website on runtime. Aside from their availability in Sharepoint portal server, webparts were introduced in asp.net 2.0. I have tried to cover all the common aspects of webparts in this article, like using different types of webparts

(Tony Patton) The DataGrid control is one of the more powerful and most used ASP.NET 1.1 controls, but it has its share of limitations. Microsoft listened to at least some of the requests from developers and delivered changes with ASP.NET 2.0, including the introduction of two new data controls: Gri

(Dominick Baier) Certificates are used in many places across the Microsoft .NET Framework, from secure communication to code signing to security policies. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced revamped support for certificates and it added a completely new namespace for standards-compliant cryptographic

(Tim Patrick and John Clark Craig) In this final article in a four-part series, we take a closer look at what you can do with forms and menus.

(Jennifer Wood) There was a time when people who created web pages used either Front Page or Dreamweaver. Users who liked the familiarity of a Microsoft interface and didn’t want to mess with the HTML code usually preferred Front Page while people who dreamed in HTML and wanted final control over th

(Rod Paddock) SQL Server Reporting Services versions 2000 and 2005 (SSRS) has many powerful features. SSRS has a well-designed data access engine, a great set of layout tools, and an excellent expression system for creating complex formulas. While the expression system is quite powerful it is not su

(Louis Davidson) No list of mistakes is ever going to be exhaustive. People (myself included) do a lot of really stupid things, at times, in the name of “getting it done.” This list simply reflects the database design mistakes that are currently on my mind, or in some cases, constantly on my mind.

(Dennis Hurst) Over the past several years I have heard people asking the question “should I use vulnerability analysis tools to assess my web based applications or should I look to penetration testing?” I think we, as an industry, may be asking the wrong question. First, let’s look at how the we

(Craig Schiff) Articles on the challenges of business performance management (BPM) usually focus on selecting the right product and getting it properly implemented. While it is true those tasks are fraught with risk, the greatest BPM challenges have little to do with technology.