(Irina Medvinskaya) Developers are often required to make a specific action take place on a form on a regular basis or after a set time interval. One way you can achieve this functionality is by using VB.NET’s Timer control. In this quick tip, I show you how to work with the Timer control in your ap

(Bilal Haidar) Last week we were trying to generate some source code in the form of a C# class out of an XML file that contains some settings configuration at run time and yet, be able to have an intellisense at design time. This is all said and the .NET environment is .NET 1.1. After so much resear

(Scott Mitchell) There are different types of state in an ASP.NET web application: page state, session state, and application state. Page state is state that is specific to a particular user’s visit to a particular page and is commonly used to remember any programmatically changed state of the page

(Andrew Hillier) Over the past 20 years, the IT infrastructures of most organizations have moved away from a reliance on centralized computing power toward distributed systems.

(Tony Patton) In the .NET Framework, memory management is supposed to be handled automatically by the system. This allows you to concentrate on the important issues of application design and development. Unfortunately, this utopia has not been completely realized as memory issues still appear in .NE

(David Jeavons) Before we start, we will need to create a new database on our SQL Server to work with. The database is called AddressBook and will contain one table with the same basic structure as the Access database used in the previous two articles. At the end of this article is a download link f

(Mike McIntyre) The Select…Case statement is used to execute one of several groups of statements, depending on the value of an expression. This article and source code reviews and demonstrates different possible ways to vary the expression list used to test the value of an expression in a Select..

(Sandeep Acharya) ILDASM and Obfuscator. These two words are not very common to the beginners of .NET. So before going over these two things, we must know their background. First, we have to know what is the significance of ILDASM and Obfuscation.

(Michael Sorens) Input validation is something that every program needs, and every programmer dreads. Most developers craft hard-coded program logic to verify that a phone number consists of 7 or 10 digits; that an IP address consists of 4 octets; that a country name matches 1 of 193 choices, etc. W

(Jack Gudenkauf and Jesse Kaplan) The Microsoft .NET Framework has made it very easy to take components built by different developers and companies and integrate them into your own applications. But it’s only easy if you know which components you’re building against. If those components are not know