(Rod Stephens) Drawing text in Visual Basic 6 was all very simple—both the process and the results. First, you would set a form or PictureBox’s CurrentX and CurrentY properties and then call the Print method.

(Praveen Kumar) In earlier version of ASP.NET 1.x we have to write data access code to generate the rowset of data that we want to use in our pages. However with the induction of data source control this task of fetching data is much easier.

(Paul Kimmel) Audacity and hyperbole are great attention grabbers. Do I really think the data access layer (DAL) I discuss in this article is the only one you will ever need? In a sense, yes. The sample in this article can work in most situations, so you may not have to spend much time in the future

(Tony Patton) Personalization is a key component of most Web applications these days. TechRepublic and Amazon are good examples of sites that remember certain user attributes. Providing such functionality with ASP.NET 1.x required some extra work and the use of the Session object, but version 2.0 si

(Nitesh Dhanjani) High risk vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection can be easily demonstrated by security analysts to developers or business executives. For example, a xp_cmdshell request injected into an application vulnerable to SQL Injection can be used to demonstrate how an attacker can abuse SQL

(Jeff Cogswell) With Vista, the latest version of Windows, arriving, you, as a developer, may be faced with learning a new set of technologies. You’ve probably heard many of the terms and acronyms (Windows Presentation Foundation, WinFX, and all that). But what does it all mean? And what do you need

There is a growing consensus that both semistructured and unstructured data sources contain business-critical information and therefore must be made accessible both for business intelligence (BI) and operational needs.1, 2 It is also clear that the amount of relevant unstructured business data is no

(Scott Mitchell) In a previous 4Guys article, Emailing the Rendered Output of an ASP.NET Web Control, I showed how to programmatically render the HTML of an ASP.NET Web control (such as a GridView) and then send that HTML through email. This technique is useful in scenarios where you want to let the

(Joydip Kanjilal) The .NET framework provides strong support for accessing Active Directory Services, letting you create, edit, delete, and search for directory objects efficiently. This article discusses the benefits of Active Directory Services, its specific features, and how to manipulate Active

(Ged Mead) So you want print something out to the printer, but because of the layout you need it to be printed Landscape? You would think – as I did – that all you need do is add something like this to the Print code: e.PageSettings.Landscape = True