(Nigel Stanley) No one ever wants less security, and in today’s mobile computing world securing mobile data is becoming a real issue.

(Scot Reagin) Successfully implementing a business intelligence (BI) solution is a challenging, complex and valuable endeavor. Overcoming challenges and complexities requires a combination of the right implementation strategy and technology. Understanding the interdependency of these factors is crit

(Anthony Queen) Pan an image” is a term often used by people familiar with graphics design. Basically, it means to move an image one direction or another. This can be accomplished in a number of ways, but two of the most popular are: 1) using scrollbars, or 2) Leftclicking the image and dragging the

(Rod Stephens) When I first saw attributes in Visual Studio .NET, I thought they were some sort of oddity Microsoft had dragged in from Java, C++, or perhaps the Delta Quadrant. They clearly aren’t Visual Basic code. To someone who uses angle brackets only for comparing two numbers, this Property st

(Deborah Kurata) Users want their forms to be in the same position the next time they open their application. While Visual Studio 2005 out of the box provides a way to store one set of named settings, there is a way to store more.

(Lee Babin, Nathan A. Good, Frank M. Kromann and Jon Stephens) PHP began life as a way to manage a small personal website and was imagined and realized by just one man, Ramsus Lerdorf. Originally dubbed Personal Home Page Tools, PHP quickly evolved over the years from the basic scripting engine for

(Sreedhar Srikant) Increasingly, large enterprises are recognizing the value of an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) in their information and knowledge strategies. The potential benefits include cost-effective consolidation of data for a single view of the business and creation of a powerful platform

(Eric Smith) Master pages, introduced with ASP.NET 2.0, provide developers an easy way to create a shared layout for a site or portion of a site without having to work around Visual Studio .NET. While many sites will have a master page specified in each page by default, you can also design your site

(Wei-Meng Lee) One of the new APIs available in the .NET Framework 2.0 is the new set of compression classes located in the System.IO.Compression namespace. The two new classes in this namespace are GZipStream and DeflateStream. Using these compression classes, you can enable compression and decompr

(Bill Evjen) In ASP.NET 1.0/1.1, you could upload files using the HTML FileUpload server control. This control put an element on your Web page to enable the end user to upload files to the server. To use the file, however, you had to make a couple of modifications to the page. Fo