(Bipin Joshi) Many months back I wrote three articles – Creating DataGrid Programmatically, Creating DataGrid Templated Columns Dynamically – Part I and Creating DataGrid Templated Columns Dynamically – Part II. Even today these are amongst top viewed articles. This indicates how commonly developers

(John Peterson) This time out we’re going to introduce the concept of skin files and show you how they allow you to easily apply formatting to ASP.NET server controls.

(Irina Medvinskaya) It’s usually a good practice to make sure that only one instance of your application can be run at a time. In order to determine if there are other instances of an application running, you need to get a list of all the processes running and see if an instance of the application i

(Dave Martin) We can access any information within seconds – the Internet expectation is fast. For many clients, businesses and management the development expectation is also fast but the reality can be slow and disappointing with unexpected costs or delays. Some of the key reasons are frequently po

(Ged Mead) Application and User Settings have been given a facelift in VB2005. One of the questions that has appeared in VBCity Forums many times over the past few years is the one where someone wants to know how to save user choices, UI settings or other small items of data that have been input b

(Zach Smith) Many developers are using Web services to communicate with their business logic, and there are a lot of advantages to this. This approach allows a wide range of flexibility in the architecture that would otherwise be very hard to come by. However, there are also a few disadvantages. One

(Jorge Bay Gondra) Like so many others, when I needed to use the TreeView control, I found myself doing a Load method adapting the data from a DataTable or a DataView into the TreeView, over and over again. Furthermore, I had to maintain the same data in the control if the values changed.

(Eric Smith) In ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft deprecated the System.Web.Mail namespace and replaced it with System.Net.Mail. The new library introduces some new features, but it also includes some bugs in how mail is sent.

(Ted Neward) Why, precisely, do we build systems using the n-tier architectural model, again? It’s a basic article of faith in software that, when presented with a new project, we divide the system cleanly into three tiers: the presentation tier, the business-logic tier, and the data-access or resou

(Scott Mitchell) A tag cloud is a way to display a weighted list such that the weight of each item is reflected by the size of the item’s text. Tag clouds provide a quick way for one to eyeball a list and ascertain what items are more prevalent. Oftentimes, each item in a tag cloud is rendered as a