(Alessandro Catorcini and Piotr Puszkiewicz) Suppose you are developing a large application in native C++ and you want to allow your customers to extend this app so they can mold it to their needs. Allowing your customers to write the extensions in managed code inside the Microsoft .NET Framework wo

(Jason N. Gaylord) In ASP.NET 1.x it was fairly difficult to create a custom configuration section in ASP.NET 2.0. Many enterprise applications then relied upon the AppSettings section, saving the configuration in an XML file or storing the settings in another data medium. Microsoft recognized this

(G. Mohyuddin) This article presents how the GridView control can be nested to show master/detail relationships for multilevel hierarchal data. In this article, I have implemented it for three levels, and it can be implemented for n levels quite easily, by maintaining the information about the edit

(Peter Aitken) Before you can read or write a binary file, you must open it, which means creating a FileStream object associated with the file.

(Ted Pattison) In my last column I discussed the use of resource files in .NET development. I internationalized a Windows Forms application and localized it for users who speak and read different languages. This month I’ll discuss the localization of Web sites in ASP.NET 2.0.

(Paul Kimmel) Profiling generally is learning about your code’s behavior. A big part of profiling is knowing where your code spends a lot of its time. Although I don’t encourage profiling in early development, it can become critical when debugging subsystems that are too slow. It also is a useful te

(Irina Medvinskaya) Visual Studio .NET provides an easy way of performing mathematical functions, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation, integer division, and finding a remainder. For all other tasks, you can utilize the System.Math class. In this tip, I will look a

(John Robbins) When you look at a minidump or live debugging session while trying to rout out an elusive bug, you need the right contributors to those bits. Access to the correct symbols and source code is critical, whether you’re doing Microsoft .NET or native C++ development. Without them, you’ll

(Eric Smith) One of the easiest ways to tell if a Web site has been updated recently is to check the bottoms of its pages. Many sites include page footers with their copyright dates. Unfortunately, webmasters often forget to change the date each year, making their sites look outdated to users.

(J. Champion) ZedGraph is a class library, Windows Forms UserControl, and ASP web-accessible control for creating 2D line, bar, and pie graphs of arbitrary datasets. The classes provide a high degree of flexibility – almost every aspect of the graph can be user-modified. At the same time, usage of t