(Steve Hall) Save the following code as an .ASPX web page on your .NET web server to try this sample using GDI+ encapsulated in a class to display a primitive line chart. The class features an arraylist to hold a dynamic number of chart points and utilizes transforms to simplify the plotting of worl

(Scott Mitchell) Most ASP.NET applications include a number of configuration settings, such as connection strings, mail server settings, system-wide default settings, and so forth. While these settings could be hard-coded in the source code, it’s usually a wiser idea to place them in a configuration

(Tim Patrick and John Clark Craig) If you are writing a desktop application, you are dealing with forms and controls. Since its first release, Visual Basic has made the dream of drag-and-drop programming possible: just add some controls to a form, press F5, and go.

(Mike McIntyre) This article with source code demonstrates how to group ListView Items with the ListViewGroup class and Visual Basic 2005. In the article example, customers are loaded from a database and three groups are created – customer name, region, and country.

(Nuno M. F. Gomes) In my previous article I talked about attributes ‘name’ and ‘id’ length and why their size can easily grow. In this article I will focus my attention answering “Why they are rendered and what are their roles in ASP.NET?”.

(Mike McIntyre) This is part two of a three part article that demonstrates how to build an ASP.NET navigation system. In part one, web pages were added to a web site and then referenced in a ASP.NET 2.0 SiteMap file. In part two an ASP.NET 2.0 Menu control will be tied to the SiteMap file created in

(Alejandro Gervasio) Any PHP developer who has worked with pattern-based programming in PHP for a while knows that the abstract factory pattern is useful for building classes that return (to client code) objects whose type depend on the content where they’re used. Welcome to the final installment of

(mendhak) As a web developer, you may have come across situations in which you wish you were not stuck with the default paging system provided with the ASP.NET DataGrid. But, at the same time, not having to write a custom DataGrid control or relying on a third-party DataGrid control would have made

(Kevin S. Goff) In this follow-up to my January/February 2005 article, “The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Productivity Tips for Crystal Reports and .NET,” I’ll offer some changes to the original article and some new material for Crystal Reports development. While I’ll focus on the version of Crystal Reports tha

(Tony Patton) Standard HTML forms allow you to post or send its data to another page or application via the method attribute of the form element. In ASP.NET 1.x, Web pages utilize the postback mechanism where the page’s data is submitted back to the page itself. ASP.NET 2.0 provides additional funct