(John Peterson) Normally the last thing you want is for your web application to be offline. In the 24/7/365 world of the Internet, users expect your site to be available whenever they want to use it. Many of the improvements in the latest versions of ASP.NET and IIS have helped make this goal a real

(Sandeep Acharya) In the world of software development, most of the time we are asked to display some descriptive images to end user at UI. Generally, developers store the images inside the folders as image files and display them at the time of demand. In this case we need to store the physical pa

(Scott Lysle) This article describes an easy approach to creating custom web controls used to display Microsoft DirectX Image Transformation filter effects in an ASP.NET 2.0 web page. The article includes a class library containing eleven different controls, each of which demonstrates some aspect of

(Stephen Toub) In my Windows Forms application, I use a BinaryFormatter to save a large amount of application state, sometimes serializing to disk very large objects. At a later point, this state file needs to be loaded and deserialized by the application, and this deserialization process can take a

(Sanjay Kumar) This below code shows how to display hierarchal data from multiple tables by using ASP.Net repeater control. This article shows hierarchal data from Categories, Products, Orders and Order Details tables of Northwind database.

(Joydip Kanjilal) Microsoft’s ADO.NET heralded the introduction of a disconnected mode of data access, enabling data exchange even across process boundaries efficiently. This is in sharp contrast to the earlier data access technologies with only connected data access mode of operation. It should be

(Liam McLennan) When developing enterprise ASP.NET applications it is common to require the input of dates. The two solutions provided by .NET and Visual Studio out of the box; using a textbox with validation and using a calendar control, are both flawed. A textbox leaves too much scope for the user

(Bill Inmon) Occasionally the notion arises that decision support system (DSS) processing should be real time. Real time means that response time should be in the three-to-five-second range from the moment that a query is formulated and initiated in the processor. The rationale for real-time process

(Dino Esposito) There’s a trend in the software industry towards moving much of the burden of code writing to the infrastructure of the underlying platform. A variety of development platforms ask developers to provide a high-level description of the information they need in a relatively loose syntax

(Jon Shemitz) Color theory may sound like a subject for the Art Department, not for developers. But we’ve all had the experience of choosing a color scheme using the property grid to select named colors and ending up with a really garish color scheme. In an ideal world it might be the case that only