(Tony Patton) One of the more popular trends to fall under the Web 2.0 umbrella is the creation of Web applications called mashups. Mashups draw upon existing Web applications or data sources and combine these resources to create a new application. I examine the technologies behind mashups, the arch

(Mike McIntyre) This is part two of a two part article and source code which explains the lazy initialization pattern and how to implement it in an order entry scenario with VB.NET and Visual Basic 2005. In object-oriented programming (OOP), lazy initialization is the strategy of improving applicati

(David Hayden) A question that comes up often enough in the Enterprise Library Forums for me to write this tutorial is – “Can you use the Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block with Typed DataSets?” The answer is yes 🙂

(Peter Aitken) A perennial problem that faces most developers is where to store program settings. Various approaches have been used for this, including the system registry, the application configuration file, and a custom serializable object. I explored some of these in my earlier article Saving use

(Wojtek Piaseczny) This is an example of how to build an ASP.Net LDAP authentication application using ADAM.

(Irina Medvinskaya) There may be times when you need to move and appropriately resize the controls on a form. In this quick tip, I show how to set the controls in VB.NET forms so you can properly resize the controls based on the size of the form.

(Scott Mitchell) When graphic designers create a layout for a Web site, they typically break down page layout into distinct regions, such as a common header that includes the logo and various navigation links, a left navigation menu perhaps, the main content area, and perhaps some sort of site map o

(Patrick Lenz) While it certainly makes no attempt to constitute a complete guide to the Ruby language, this tutorial will introduce you to some of the basics of Ruby. We’ll power through a crash-course in object oriented programming, covering the more common features of the language along the way,

(saifi hasan) In one of my web projects, the requirement was such that the pager should have numeric paging as well as links for previous, next, first, and last pages. The DataGrid did not directly support this type of layout; that’s why I have developed my custom DataGrid that can be used throughou

(Mike McIntyre) This is part one of a three part article that demonstrates how to build an ASP.NET navigation system. In part one, web pages are 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