(Sujith C Jose) This is a simple article which describes how to use a Stored Procedure in Visual Basic 6.0 using the Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects(ADO).

(Danilo Corallo) For my last project, I looked at the PropertyGrid control that has a very nice look and feel. Immediately, I noticed how difficult it was to use it. Looking over the Internet, I found lots of people wishing for something easier to use, like the TreeView or the ListView. So I started

(Calum McLellan) This article is an extension of Jim Parsells’ article “An All VB.NET Explorer Tree Control with ImageList Management”. I have added two main classes to Jim’s ExpTreeLib assembly – ExpCombo and ExpList. The ExpList directly inherits from ListView, and is partially based on the ListVi

(Tony Patton) The process of establishing a database connection can be time consuming depending upon network connectivity. Connection pooling is a viable option if the network is an issue, and database server resources are available. This topic may seem to conflict with my recent coverage of working

(Stefan Schackow) One of the permissions defined in ASP.NET’s Medium and High partial trust files is System.Net.WebPermission. This is probably one of the most confusing permissions for developers to use due to the interaction between ASP.NET’s element and the settings for this permission.

(Doug Seven) In this intorductory series I will show you how to use the new Master Pages feature of ASP.NET 2.0 to manage the look and feel of your website from a single location. In the second installment of the series I will show you how to add Theme support to enable quicly modifying the look and

(Drew Georgopulos) Back in the days of personal computing, the user could control almost every aspect of his or her machine’s environment and behavior from the command line. If you really needed extra power, GW-BASIC let you interact with the system. As Windows got bigger and bigger, the graphical u

(Tim Kohler) I’m really a SQL nut. I love working in terms of sets and try to avoid looping where possible in favor of set based operations. One thing that caught my eye are the predicates and actions that are now in the 2.0 framework. They are part of generics.

(Bill Woodruff) The Dictionary class in .NET 2.0’s System.Colllections.Generic namespace provides the ability to create a strongly-typed dictionary where both the Keys and Values collections can accept any object-type. This capability enables novel solutions to typical programming problems—for examp

(Manoj Agarwal) Do you have an ASP.NET application ready and now you want to translate it into different languages, or are you developing a new application for which you want to support localization? If yes, ASP.NET 2.0 makes it easier than ever before to do so.