(Melonfire) Waterfall development is a software development model involving a phased progression of activities, marked by feedback loops, leading to the release of a software product. This article provides a quick and dirty introduction to the model, explaining what it is, how it’s supposed to work,

(Jeevan Murkoth) I am sure that most of you have heard about or have had a chance to use Google Maps. It’s a great service and I was really impressed by the responsiveness of the application and the ease with which users could drag and zoom maps from a Web browser. It has in many ways heralded the a

(Scott Mitchell) One of the many factors that contributed to the phenomenal success of ASP was the ease with which developers could create data-driven Web pages. A very common data-driven Web page, especially in an intranet setting, is one that generates reports. Such a page often pulls figures from

Normalization is a design technique that is widely used as a guide in designing relational databases. Normalization is essentially a two step process that puts data into tabular form by removing repeating groups and then removes duplicated data from the relational tables.

(Eric Smith) If you use a return statement within a Try/Catch block, there’s a behavior you need to be aware of in your code.

(David Hayden) One more example you can download associated with the Enterprise Library 3.0 Validation Application Block Presentation I gave at the South Florida Code Camp.

(Wei-Meng Lee) One of the common controls that you will usually use in Windows Forms programming is the DataGridView control. The DataGridView control is a new control in Windows Forms 2.0 and it replaces the DataGrid control in Windows Forms 1.0. It is a very powerful and versatile control that is

(Saripalli Koti Reddy) Microsoft .NET Framework [.NetFx] is one of the most important technological platform to any professional associated with Microsoft technologies. In the vein of any other upcoming technology, .NET Framework is undergoing rapid changes and enhancements to empower its developers

(Brian Eastwood) Not sure if your existing application will run on Windows Vista? The best way to find out, believe it or not, is to open it up and see what happens. (R)

(Peter Aitken) This is the first in a series of articles that takes an unusual approach to teaching programming. Most articles zero in on a specific aspect of development, whether it be a language feature, a framework component, or a design principle. This approach has a lot of value, as proven by t