(Mike Gold) This article will get you started in using the Visio ActiveX control that allows you to use Visio inside of a .NET Windows Form. The article will step you through a simple example of drawing shapes inside a Visio Drawing and connecting the shapes together.

(Tony Patton) The goal of every Web site is to increase site visibility and user traffic. One way to increase site traffic is through search engine optimization. Another method is to use sitemaps, which allow you to specify what pages a search engine should process or index. The sitemap concept was

(Jeffrey Juday) Databases and reports are the flesh and bones of every business intelligence (BI) solution. With internal company database and reporting standards, often the toughest platform decision is selecting a tool to populate the reporting database. Typically, developers use an Extract, Trans

(Rod Stephens) From the beginning, the Tag property has been a Visual Basic programming staple. Any time you want to attach a little extra bit of information, you can put it in the Tag property. In .NET, the Tag property became even more useful, allowing you to store objects rather than just strings

(Adam Langley) Visual Studio is a great environment for Rapid Application Development. It also provides a rich extensibility API for customising it for your specific needs. A good example of this is the highly utilised “Custom Tool” facility.

(Mohammad Hefny) When developing an ASP.Net application, it is very common for many developers to use Session for passing data between different pages in the web application. Usually developers tends to leave Session data in memory until the whole session is closed when the user closes the window br

(Pat Wong) They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and nowhere is this more evident than in the use of bar charts.

(Rajendra Kumar Sahu) Some applications, be it desktop or web, require working with images. Aptly speaking, the good paradigm is banking applications. Withdrawal of an amount of money from a bank account requires signature verification of the account holder. Normally, specimen signatures of custo

(Thiru Thangarathinam) Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the latest service execution environment from Microsoft that enables you to seamlessly expose CLR types as services and consume services as CLR types. WCF is a unified programming model that combines the best of breed features from XML

(Prashant Patil) Design Patterns can help the designers solve the complex design problems with ease. There are many design patterns for the varying designing issues from the perspective of the object creation, object composition and object behavior.