(Scott Mitchell) The Membership API in the .NET Framework provides the concept of a user account and associates with it core properties: username, passsword, email, security question and answer, whether or not the account has been approved, whether or not the user is locked out of the system, and so

(Eric Smith) Adding user controls to a web application is a fairly easy thing to do. You essentially create a portion of a web page, add your HTML, and then use the control within your application. Although easy to create, user controls are harder to share between projects. As an alternative to user

(Ed Tittel) Those who’ve worked in the Windows environment for any length of time know that password complexity requirements first appeared in updates to Windows NT and have been part and parcel of Windows Servers versions ever since. They also know that it’s always been a little trickier than it sh

(George Schlossnagle) Let’s bring together some of the techniques developed so far in this chapter and use overloading to provide a more OO-style interface to the result set. Having all the results in a single object may be a familiar paradigm to programmers who are used to using Java’s JDBC databas

(Sandeep Acharya) Threads are also known as lightweight processes. However, if we go into depth then we would know that a thread is not actually a process; rather it provides ways for executing different parts of a program. Now let us discuss what it actually means by multithreading. Multithreadi

(Alejandro Gervasio) Mastering some of the most popular design patterns with PHP 5 can be sometimes an overwhelming process that requires hard work and experience. However, if you want to tackle the challenge and expand your existing background on them, this article might eventually find a place on

(Peter Aitken) This is the second of two articles on writing multithreaded applications using the .Net Framework. The first article, which you can find here, covered the managed thread pool. This article deals with the BackgroundWorker class.

(Dan Denenberg) In today’s corporate world, every reputable organization realizes the need for reporting on the information stored in its operational systems. Such reporting helps firms to uncover business trends, identify troubled performance areas, create accurate forecasts and comply with new fin

(Tony Alicea) ASP.NET has inherent caching capabilities. However, what if you are working with a legacy classic ASP application, and need to cache a particularly intensive page? Perhaps the page pulls a very large set of data from a database, or does a good deal of calculations. If the results don’t

(Jaish Mathews) I noticed in many database designs with columns which will keep some dynamic values. The fact is that those dynamic values may alter at any time and then the user wants to change them in the database also. My opinion is that dynamic values should handle with dynamic columns whenever