Starting in the spring of 2007, daylight saving time (DST) start and end dates for the United States will transition to comply with the Energy Policy Act of 2005. DST dates in the United States will start three weeks earlier (2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday in March) and will end one week later (2:00

(Scott Mitchell) One of the main challenges of building a programming framework is balancing the desires to create a standardized, straightforward API for accomplishing common tasks and providing flexibility and customizability so that developers using the framework can mold the framework to fit the

(Santhosh Babu) This article discusses various options for state management for web applications developed using ASP.NET. Generally, web applications are based on stateless HTTP protocol which does not retain any information about user requests. In typical client and server communication using HTTP

(Mike McIntyre) Visual Studio 2005 sometimes automatically adds a BindingNavigator for a BindingSource to a Windows form.

(Bill Lewis) Surveys of software development organizations relentlessly deliver the message that an acceptable project success rate still eludes us. Model-driven methods such as the Object Management Group’s Model Driven Architecture (MDA) promise improvements in this state of affairs, but have yet

(Thiagarajan Alagarsamy) The Windows API is the name given by Microsoft to the core set of application programming interfaces available in the Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is designed for usage by C/C++ programs and is the most direct way to interact with a Windows system for software app

(Leo Wrobel) Every so often it becomes necessary to write an article a little off the beaten path to describe what people should—or shouldn’t—be doing in areas somewhat tangential to disaster recovery planning. One example is the legal and regulatory reasons for planning; for example, the Sarbanes-O

(Yogesh) This article shows how to allows pages to automatically maintain the current scroll position across postbacks.

(Bob Reselman) A fundamental tenet of programming is that you separate behavior that’s subject to a high degree of change from behavior that won’t change much over time. Sometimes this is easier said than done, particularly if you’re working with web applications. If you have full access to the code

(Jayant Kulkarni) The article, or rather a code snippet, demonstrates a simple application that inserts, updates, and deletes by using DataGridView. The application uses asynchronous architecture for most calls to database. This shows that, without hanging the UI, you can allow a user to continue wi