(Alex Homer) Although originally envisaged as a product for use in Windows Forms (executable) applications, Enterprise Library is proving popular with Web application developers as well. For example, the Data Access Application Block, the Cryptography Application Block, the Exception Handling Applic

(Pankaj Gupta) A Master Page enables you to store the same content among multiple content pages in a website. You can use Master Page to create a common page layout. For example, if you want all the pages in your website to share a three-column layout, you can create once in a Master Page and apply

(Craig Carpenter) It happens. Hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and fires – the so-called “acts of God” that shatter lives and devastate businesses. Their man-made cousins – fire, power failures or worse yet, terrorism – are no less destructive. Together these unanticipated events pose risks to busine

(Matt Nicholson) For the end user, the changes that will come with 2007 Microsoft Office System may seem limited to a bright new user interface and some useful new features. However, this new version offers the potential to transform the working life of anyone involved in implementing a project or f

(Sanjit Sil) The .NET Framework provides a set of classes in the System.IO namespace to allow synchronous and asynchronous reading from and writing to data streams and files which are very much required in our real life applications to read, write, or manipulate files and directories. .NET Framewor

(Jesse Smith) Most developers care about application performance. Even if speed isn’t the most important attribute of their software, they certainly don’t want the application to be slow. But streamlining code may seem too complex, and require skills that you don’t have.

(David Hayden) There is nothing I love talking about more than ActiveRecord and Code Generation 🙂

(Paul Kimmel) The .NET Framework 3.0 incorporates LINQ (Language INtegrated Query), a cool technology that adds dynamic queries to all kinds of objects in a familiar SQL-like style. LINQ code looks like embedded SQL statements, which I actually don’t care for because SQL has never looked pretty to m

(Pankaj Gupta) An ASP.NET Theme enables you to apply a consistent style to the pages in your website. You can use a Theme to control the appearance of both the HTML elements and ASP.NET controls that appear in a page.

(Guy Smith-Ferrier) The CultureInfo class is at the heart of .NET’s internationalization solution. In Chapter 6, “Globalization,” you saw that in the .NET Framework 2.0, the list of available cultures is a combination of those cultures known to the .NET Framework plus those known to the operating sy