(Irina Medvinskaya) An important function of any program is the ability to work with a file system and manipulate files and directories. In this tip, we examine how to work with a file system using VB.NET. We show you a handy way to perform necessary functions with examples that utilize the existing

(Marius Bancila) In a previous article, I introduced you to Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly code-named ‘Avalon’), XAML (the new language for designing user interfaces and the link between designers and developers) and ‘Cider’ (the graphic designer for the next version of Visual Studio, cod

(George P. Alexander Jr.) We had a look at the “what” and “why” of caching along with an introductory write-up on .Net Caching the last time. We closed that article with a look at Output Caching provided by ASP.Net 1.1.

(Satheesh Kumar) Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) comes with many tools integrated in it for the developers & testers and also for architects and managers. The unit testing tool that comes with Visual Studio 2005 enables the developers to generate the test classes and methods. Team Test does not pro

(Scott Mitchell) ASP.NET 2.0 makes it quite easy to accomplish common tasks. Want to display data from a database, allowing the user to sort, edit, delete, and page through that data? Simply add and configure a SqlDataSource on the page, bind it to a GridView, check a few checkboxes in the GridView’

(George P. Alexander Jr.) An old, close friend of mine had asked me to prepare a paper for him on .Net Caching around a week back so that he could present a seminar on the same to his team by the end of this week. He’s just moved over from classic ASP to ASP.Net quite recently and I’ve been engaging

(Anne Marie Smith) One of the main areas of responsibility for any data steward is the enforcement of data integrity. Most data administration texts define data integrity as “attention to the consistency, accuracy and correctness of data stored in a database or other electronic file.”1 Commonly, dat

(Christian Shay) You’re working on some C# or VB.NET routines that manipulate data you’re retrieving from Oracle Database. You need to access the database to edit and debug some stored procedures, modify some data in a table, change the structure of a table or view, or perform one of countless other

(Steve Miller) When I first arrived to the work world 30 years ago, I encountered two roadblocks to my enthusiasm for mathematical and statistical optimization techniques in business. The first was a data management problem. Collecting, integrating, organizing and manipulating data was a very thorny

(Mark Strawmyer) DataSource controls provide declarative data binding, or put more simply, data binding without requiring you to write code. They represent back end data stores and replace the code that queries data sources and binds the results to controls with tags. As such, they have no re