(Mahesh Chand) Recently, I got an email on how to change color of chart items (bars) in Crystal Reports. As usual, instead of replying the individual email, I am adding this Tip to the Crystal Reports section.

(Tony Patton) The registry is an integral part of every Windows installation. It contains a wealth of information regarding operating system configuration along with the hardware and installed software. Programmatic access to the registry in the pre-.NET days involved working with the Windows API. T

(Michael Livshitz) In the article we have discussed how a control can be built in Visual Studio 2005. We combined the functionality of more than one Windows Forms controls with our code and used inheriting from the UserControl Class. But if you want just to extend the functionality of an existing Wi

(Sanjit Sil) Every application should have error handling. We try to trap errors using try-catch-finally block. But what happens in the case of an unhandled exception in application? ASP.NET produces an error page (usually located at c:winnthelpiishelpcommon) when an application throws an unh

(Anthony Queen) This article will attempt to explain and demonstrate how Microsoft has simplified the approach to writing provider-independent code. Switching between Oracle, SQL, or any Oledb or Odbc data source is now as easy as setting a configuration setting.

(Thiru Thangarathinam) In Part 2 of this article series, you looked at Linq’s query features, including the standard query operators and their applicability in querying XML data. With that background, this installment switches gears to discuss the basics of DLinq (LINQ to SQL) and its use in queryin

(Brian Mains) The BoundField control is inadequate for it’s text capabilities, and so the TextField control was created to serve that purpose. This article is an example to illustrate how you create a custom DataControlField control.

(Jacques Noah) If you have a website, especially one that sells products or services, it can be useful to track the visitors to your site. This article explains how to write a program that will do just that.

(Leidago) If you’re running a business in which you’re invoicing clients, you need some way to keep track of which invoices have gone out and which clients have paid. In this second article of a four-part series that covers the creation of a PHP invoicing system, we create the parts that deal with t

(Abey George) Fragment caching comes in handy when you have a page which contains dynamic contents as well as static contents. This enables you to break your page into separate segments that can be cached individually. Fragment caching is very similar to output caching. You call it in the same way a