(Muhammad Mosa) Have you ever needed to add a null value to your integer, date & time,decimal or Boolean etc… data types?! I’m sure you may faced this desire before and you had to work around it to submit null value to those value data types. For example using DateTime.MinValue as a mark to a null

(Sandesh Meda) A well-written piece of code should theoretically not throw any exceptions. However, in practice it is almost impossible to test if an application works under every situation. When errors occur, there are different ways to handle them. This article discusses how to log exceptions i

(Ravikumar Raja) In this article we will try to cover one great feature of ASP.NET 2.0, i.e. Themes. Themes are the great way to customize user-experience in the web application. Themes are used to define the look and feel of the web application, similar to the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). U

(Bipin Joshi) Many months back I wrote a series of articles that explained in plain words N-tier application development. Then came .NET 2.0. Many things changed especially for ASP.NET. So I decided to write a sequel to the earlier series specifically for ASP.NET 2.0. This article will explain h

(vivekthakur) Globalization and localization are two important processes which every developer should be aware of while creating global products or applications. Though there are many articles which explain the subject well, I did not find a single resource which explains all important concepts reag

(Eric Smith) Previous tips explained how to use a Repeater control to build a dynamic form containing some number of text box controls. However, you may have a case in which you want to use a different control, such as a check box, in addition to the text boxes. In this case, you’ll need to use a Pl

(Colleen Frye) Taking the guesswork out of pinpointing and fixing performance issues is the promise of the emerging class of .NET application performance management tools. With end-to-end monitoring and diagnostic capability, the tools aim to reduce the time developers need to spend on application s

(Tim Huckaby) In this article, I show you how easy it is to build a powerful Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) application for Microsoft Excel. This is a VSTO 101 article, but the application is far from a “Hello World” application; I have demoed this application many times at technical conferen

(Jacques Noah) Reading and writing to files can be useful if you do not require the storing of important data, such as a web counter. I must warn you though, that this method of storage should not be used to store passwords and other critical information, as it is not safe. Here we will discuss how

(Lee Richardson) Part one of this series introduced the first seven common site map navigation problems and their solutions. This part explores more advanced techniques with the final two problems.