(Robert Carmichael) The alignment of business and IT is not just a new management philosophy but a necessary collaboration as business processes are increasingly enabled by systems and user interactions with those systems. To achieve a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment, the technology

(Sergei Kitaev) Error handling is a general topic. This article is concerned with the strategy based on exceptions (which are a universal mechanism for raising and reporting an error) in relation to .NET. Here, you will learn about two problems of exception handling (that are not covered enough in e

(alving) This article describes how to create a common toolbar for all the pages in a website using master page. If a web application has common set of actions in many web pages such as Save, Export or Print we can use a common tool bar across all the pages. It gives consistency in look and feel as

(Sachin Dedhia) A simple technique for hiding certain columns in an ASP.NET GridView control. The secret is knowing when to set the Visible property to false.

(Jacques Noah) If you are working with classes in PHP, you will sooner or later encounter inheritance, polymorphism, and serialization. The ability to use these three will help speed up your code writing. This article covers how to use them, and more.

(Ken Getz) It’s not that I’m lazy, but it really bothers me to have to manually iterate through all the members of a collection, taking an action on each. I wish I could just tell the collection what to do for each member and let it do the iterating. Well, guess what? On a recent exploration of the

(John Peterson) This article is a follow up to my article An Introduction to the ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard Control, which was published a few weeks ago. It seems that many of you are unsure how to use the ASP.NET validation controls in conjunction with the new ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard control. The process is lar

(Sahil Malik) I use a number of Web sites every day. Each Web site has a header, footer, some kind of navigation, and an area where I actually do my work. I am almost certain that each of these sites has “widgetized” or componentized its functional UI into smaller breakable pieces. For instance, the

(Abey George) Caching is a technique which is used to increase performance by decreasing access times for obtaining data. This is accomplished by retaining the frequently accessed data in memory. This technique is used by many operating system and databases to cut down on the no of times the data is

(Bilal Haidar) This article focuses on explaining a set of features that have been added to the GridView controls that ship with ASP.NET 2.0. Two main features among the list are the ContextMenu row-based and Filter Textbox to filter GridView’s rows. During the last few weeks we have been working