(Scott Mitchell) In building a data-driven application, oftentimes both text and binary data needs to be captured. Applications might need to store images, PDFs, Word documents, or other binary data. Such binary data can be stored in one of two ways: on the web server’s file system, with a reference

(Scott Lysle) This article describes a quick and simple approach to creating a tabbed custom control with a gradient background. In this example, the standard Windows Forms tab control is extended to provide a persistent gradient background; this differs from using an approach where a gradient backg

(David Hay) Just about every ASP.NET application needs to keep track of data for a user’s session. ASP.NET provides the HttpSessionState class to store session-state values. An instance of the HttpSessionState class for each HTTP request is accessible throughout your application using the static Htt

(Alejandro Gervasio) You may have already encountered situations in coding PHP applications in which you would like to use inheritance, but could not for one reason or another. Fortunately, there is an alternative for these situations that can help you achieve the same result. In this first article

(Fernando Martinez-Campos) After 20 years as a data warehousing practitioner, I’ve seen my share of data quality issues. The vast majority are unexpected and cost extra development time and budget money. Many have harmful impact on the business. Bad data quality has become an unfortunate fact of lif

(Jonathan Keljo) Many diagnostic tools use the CLR Profiling API-even those that aren’t strictly profilers. So if you’ve ever wondered how these tools work, a look at the Profiling API is a good start. In this column, you’ll see how they work and look at some useful tips and tricks. You’ll also find

(Jan Schreuder) The helper class described in this article offers a number of methods that can be useful when you want to integrate Crystal Reports in your .Net application. Integrating Crystal Reports will be a lot simpler when you use this helper class. The helper class also contains methods to tw

(Pradeep Tiwari) This article provides some tips when working with Master page or SqlDataSource insert function in VS 2005.

(Don MacVittie) IT pros must understand and address the liability associated with granting unfettered access to sensitive data. We explore methods for safeguarding private information while keeping it usable for applications.

(Tony Patton) One of the more exciting features of ASP.NET is the view state concept. It allows you to save Web Form properties across different server requests. While this simplifies maintaining data on a Web page, it does have disadvantages. This week, I examine view state, as well as enhancements