(John Peterson) In today’s world of Web services and RSS feeds, it seems like every application you build needs to pull in data from somewhere. Luckily, ASP.NET makes retrieving data from a remote server via HTTP extremely simple… maybe too simple. Many applications are brought to their knees beca

(Eric Smith) The configuration file concept in .NET makes it much easier to change runtime settings without having to recompile. These files hearken back to the days of .INI files in previous versions of Windows, long before the dreaded Registry. Although you can keep all your settings in the appSet

(Chris Peters) Computer applications that people depend on heavily are called critical systems. A system is thought to be critical if the cost that would be incurred if the system fails is high—sometimes very high.

(Scott Mitchell) One of the many new Web controls available in ASP.NET 2.0 is the Wizard Web control, which takes the user through a series of discrete steps in order to accomplish some task. As discussed in Creating a Step-by-Step User Interface with the ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard Control: The Basics, the

(Julian Roberts) In Classic ASP, developers will use include files to give each page a consistant look and feel. When the include file(s) are changed, those changes are also reflected on the parent pages. This makes a website quite maintainable. Although, the main drawback of this methodology is tha

(Michael Jones) With the release of Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition last year and Team Foundation Server in March of this year, Microsoft delivered arguably one of the largest functional upgrades to the Visual Studio line of tools in years. When used with Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio Team E

(acc15) A macro can create any function comment from any function definition. A macro hardly can determine function definitions, including calling conventions, full return types (including spaces in types between ‘*’ and ‘&’ and “const” specifier), parameters lists, function names, and so on. Also,

(Eric Smith) When I create a class, I often define a constructor to ensure that the object is initially populated with all the information it needs to operate properly. As an example, one of my databound objects can take a database connection or both a database connection and an object representing

(Bipin Joshi) In Part 1 we learnt about customizing the CreateUserWizard control, adding the newly registered user to a default role and storing data in Profile properties. Going further this article will explain how to develop an administrative page that manages User-Role mapping. We will also disc

(Yildirim Kocdag) Parent-Child ComboBoxes is one of the classical problems for almost all projects. As a brief of this problem is, –There are two combos, –One of them is parent and another is child combo. –After the parent one is fired(selected value changed), child combo should be taken