(Paul Kimmel) I have met very few developers or development teams who prefer ADO.NET objects to custom objects. Similarly, many are writing their own custom data access layers. This should convey a loud and clear message to Microsoft and other software vendors: ADO.NET is great, but developers prefe

(Shari Rogalski) Oscar Wilde once said, “It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.” His observation in the 19th century has a new kind of resonance in modern corporate life. Besieged by the wizardry of the electronic age, collecting structured and unstructured data

(Ken Getz) I’ve been writing quite a bit of courseware lately, and many of the demos for the courses require the presenter to step through a number of simple procedures, demonstrating various features of Visual Studio® or the Microsoft® .NET Framework. For example, I recently worked on a course in w

(Praveen K Prasad) During the development of the simplest “Hello World” application, we can see many bugs & other problems kicking us from back, this article shows how to get rid of the most common problems out here.

(David Simmonds) The bridge pattern allows us to operate a two part system which translates an expression of the intent to do work into the actual work to be performed. It accomplishes this by pairing two different parts of a system that are dependent on each other for accomplishing a given task.

(Steve Schofield) This code sample shows how to retrieve a list of computers from Active Directory and use a For/Next to loop through the collection. I’ve used this code sample on several scripts and using Active Directory as the authoritative source for a list of machines is handy. The process runn

(Joydip Kanjilal) Windows Services are long running executable applications that have no User Interface, can be configured to start automatically and can also be started manually. Windows services are not meant to interact with users and should not have a user interface. These applications are act

(Anand Thakur) With upcoming usage of Internet, distributing the software over the Internet is very common now. Assemblies/Components are deployed across wide network. If you the software company and want to distribute code through Internet, you can build an assembly and sign that assembly with digi

(Arthur Fuller) Normalization is one of the commandments of IT database pros, whether you are a data modeler, DBA, or SQL developer. We learn its principles early, as well as something about normal forms.

(Rick Strahl) ASP.NET 2.0 includes many new data binding features that can significantly simplify a variety of data binding scenarios. Unfortunately, one very common scenario-simple control data binding-has changed very little. While this is a common scenario in forms-based Web applications, it rema