(Paul Stubbs) Many software developers have increased the usefulness of their applications by making them customizable, usually through the addition of a technology like Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). But these days VBA doesn’t go far enough. You need a way to provide customers with

(Andrew Whitechapel and John Peltonen) There’s little doubt that the 2007 Microsoft Office system provides the basis for some pretty sophisticated custom solutions, and there are thousands of such solutions running happily on Office today. But can Office also serve as a robust development platform?

(Jagadish Chaterjee) This article introduces you to object oriented programming for database development using Visual Basic.NET 2005. It explains classes, fields, methods, and objects.

(Alejandro Gervasio) If you have reached the point in your programming life where you are using design patterns, you will want to read this article. The first of a three-part series, it covers the Observer pattern, which can be just the thing for situations where objects need to send information to

(Stuart Saltzman) In this article I explain how to create a tabstrip control within ASP.net 2.0 using existing controls. We all had hoped with the release of .NET 2.0, Microsoft would incorporate many more needed and everyday Webform controls, such as a TreeView, Menus, TabStrip, LoginXXX, etc, and

(Rich Crawford) In this article we will look at two demonstrations for sending e-mail messages with attachments in ASP.NET 2.0.

Even in the days of ASP.NET 1.0/1.1, as a developer you might have spent a lot of time creating login / authentication modules and pages. You spent a lot of time designing and coding pages for user management. Till the last version you have to write and implement a login framework, authenticate user

(Brian Mains) The windows environment is a big change from the ASP.NET runtime environment in how they operate. This article talks about how the two differ in creating custom controls, talking about the main difference in windows custom controls. This article was written with the ASP.NET developer i

(mikeperetz) In this article I will explain how I solved a common problem I used to have regarding logging within my business layer. Normally, I would have a function call from my presentation layer to my business layer, however once in the business layer; I had no access to the presentation layer a

(Eric Smith) Before I accept any credit card number into my application, I run a simple numerical validation against it. All major credit cards (American Express, Discover, MasterCard, and Visa) use the Luhn algorithm to validate the numbers—why not you? Although this function doesn’t go the extra s