(Kevin S. Goff) Developers frequently must work with data at different levels, with different tools, and in different forms. This article is the first in a two-part series on some of the more common data challenges that developers face. In Part 1 of this article, I’ll cover some capabilities in ADO.

(Ashley van Gerven) This little ASP.NET utility lets you run SQL queries against databases accessible to the webserver. Initially this started as a script to run queries against an Access database running a website without having to download it. Every now and then you might need to do maintenance ch

(Leidago) In this first part of “Building an Invoicing System,” we are going to look at invoice management. Why would anyone want an online invoicing system? Well, if you are a freelance web developer like myself, you will undoubtedly need to invoice your clients so as to be able to get paid at the

(Saul Candib) This article describes all new objects and members of the Visio 2007 VBA object model and newly deprecated existing members.

(Tony Patton) Should you purchase an off-the-shelf product and mold your business to fit it, or build what you need from the ground up? The build vs. buy debate is almost as old as the IT industry. In the past, the buy option often trumped the build counterpart, but advances in development tools hav

(Scott Lysle) This article describes an easy approach to examining all of the tables, views, and columns in a database, the article is written to describe an example application that may be used to connect to a database (Oracle, SQL Server, or MS Access), view that database’s tables and views, and d

(Phil Wilson) Although FTP is commonly used to transfer files over the Internet, it’s somewhat unfriendly to firewalls, because of the various ports that need to be opened. A Microsoft solution you can use for Internet file transfer is the Background Intelligent Transfer Service, BITS for short. BIT

(Yes’B) In my recent project I come across a problem of displaying drill down rows in a DataGrid. It has to show a new row immediately after the selected row to accept that row information.

(Saul Candib) This article introduces new features of interest to developers in Microsoft Office Visio 2007 and explains how to use them. What’s New for Developers in Visio 2007 (Part 2 of 2) describes all the new objects and members of the Visio VBA object model, and newly deprecated existing membe

(Alex Homer and David Sussman) To give you a feel for the way all the new features of ASP.NET 2.0 combine to provide the overall development experience, this chapter presents a scenario-based demonstration focused on a day in the life of a developer who is in the process of fulfilling the requiremen