(Matt Stoecker) The .NET Framework 2.0 allows you to create and access values that are persisted between application execution sessions. These values are called settings. Settings can represent user preferences, or valuable information the application needs to use. For example, you might create a se

(Mike McIntyre) A common question in the Visual Basic forums on the Web is: “How do I parse a comma delimited file?”.

(Alejandro Gervasio) Static properties and methods can be quite useful in a range of situations, not merely for constructing a Singleton class. This article, the first in a two-part series, introduces the basic concepts of static properties and methods, using plenty of hands-on examples.

(Kevin Quinn) I am in the habit of not typing Web addresses into the address bar of my Web browser. Instead, I type the address, spelling errors and all, into the search box on my browser’s extended menu bar. Ninety-nine percent of the time, the target site comes up in the top two or three links of

(David Fritz) The use of a semantic model as a fundamental step in the data warehouse development process can serve as a keystone for understanding requirements, the design of the subsequent data models, and as a link between the reporting tool interface and the physical data models.

(David Broman) This article is targeted toward anyone interested in building a profiler to examine managed applications. I will describe how you can program your profiler to walk managed stacks in the common language runtime (CLR) of the .NET Framework. I’ll try to keep the mood light, because the t

(David Hayden) I talked about using the Data Access Guidance Package in the Web Service Software Factory to generate stored procedures, business entities, and repositories to create a data access layer for a bare-bones blog engine.

(Eric Smith) As much as I hate having to remember a password for every Web site I visit, password security is one of the easiest ways to tighten access to any application. Password security can have complexity rules, such as length or character type, expiration, or remembering previous passwords so

(Mike Bloise) Memory leaks are relatively easy to introduce into your programs when coding in C or C++ (no-one could have enjoyed having to write destructors for every single one of their C++ classes). However, when you code in a .NET language, such as C#, you are working in managed code, with autom

(Frank Davis) When IT professionals first embark on a data quality initiative, a common question they ask is, “What industries or market verticals have the best data quality?” Underlying that question is the desire and need to establish a data quality benchmark. All firms want to know how they are d