(Paul) Regular expressions is one of ways of search substrings in strings. It is carried out by means of viewing a string in searches of some pattern. A well-known example can be symbols “*” and “?”, used in command line DOS. First of them replaces a zero or more any symbols, the second – one any sy

(Bipin Joshi) When the data a Web application accepts from the user is too much, splitting the entire Web form into multiple logical sections is a desirable solution. To accomplish this in classic ASP or even ASP.NET 1.x, developers used to create a wizard: multiple Web forms each containing a part

(Billy McCafferty) After years of maintaining thousands of lines of ASP spaghetti code, Microsoft finally gave us a first class web development platform: ASP.NET. ASP.NET instantly brought a basic separation of concerns between presentation and business logic by introducing the code-behind page.

(Satheesh Kumar) In this article we will discuss the usage of DLinq Designer through an example of how to create entity classes. We will also discuss its relationship with other classes. We will see how to create a windows application that makes use of these classes. Using this DLinq designer, we

(Irina Medvinskaya) VB.NET’sDateTime structure represents an instant in time and is usually expressed as a particular date and time of the day. DateTime comes in handy whenever you need to determine the system’s date and time; it also performs various operations on date/time variables. In this artic

(George Lawton) Testing tools have long been disparate, and often far removed from development processes. Bringing better integration to test and development is one of Visual Studio Team System’s main goals. VSTS tries to make test and report correlation easier by providing a full-featured tool; yet

(Tony Patton) Caching frequently accessed or expensive data in memory boosts application performance by reducing the number of database calls to retrieve the data. ASP.NET provides two basic caching techniques: page (Page Output and Page Fragment) and programmatic caching. In my previous article, I

(Scott W. Ambler) A database refactoring is a small change to a database schema which improves its design without changing, at a practical level, the semantics of the database. In other words, it is a simple database transformation which neither adds nor breaks anything. The process of database re

(Partha S) Recently had to design a Windows app that would display a status of database operations.

(Brian Mains) Partial classes are a great new feature for the .Net 2.0 framework, because they can separate code into several classes, which is especially useful when working with large files. I always had the assumption, though, that I had to inherit directly from the Page class for this to work, b