(S. Ying) A software developer may find it necessary to “sell” some of his/her valuable mental skills and labor directly or indirectly to someone in order to make a physical and resulting mental living. The difference is in the “someone”, be it his/her boss, a movement/cause or middle/end customers.

(Bill Sempf) Now that the Visual Basic 2005 honeymoon is over, more developers than ever are looking at their situation and realizing that we have millions of lines of Visual Basic code to convert to 2005 if we expect to utilize the new features of contemporary Windows versions. The Visual Basic Upg

(Bipin Joshi) Developers often store confidential information in the configuration files. Database connection strings, user names and passwords are some of the examples. One of the requested feature during ASP.NET 1.x days was to provide some way to easily encrypt and decrypt such information. Thank

(Bradley Jones) In Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft has added a new tool called the Class Designer. This now workspace and toolbox can be found in most of the editions of non-free versions Visual Studio 2005.

(Tony Patton) The debate over which language to use—VB.NET or C#—has been going strong since .NET was first introduced. While you may use other languages, these two are by far the most popular. Each language uses the same .NET code base, so each is equally powerful for application development. Perso

(Liam McLennan) When developing enterprise ASP.NET applications it is common to require the input of dates. The two solutions provided by .NET and Visual Studio out of the box; using a textbox with validation and using a calendar control, are both flawed. A textbox leaves too much scope for the user

(Alejandro Gervasio) Over this second article in a series covering network programming in PHP, you will learn how to run popular Windows network monitoring utilities, such as the “ping,” “netstat” and “ipconfig” programs, by adding some new methods to the “QueryProcessor” class introduced in the pre

(Abey George) System.Diagnostics namespace provides with different classes which helps you to interact with System processes, Event logs, Performance counters, debug etc. Here we use System.Diagnostic.EventLog class to write the event log. EventLog class helps us to access the list of events that ar

(Joel Murach and Anne Boehm) As you test an ASP.NET application, you may encounter runtime errors that prevent an application from executing. When that happens, an exception is thrown. In many cases, the application anticipates these exceptions and provides code to catch them and process them approp

(Philip Howard) Once upon a time there were ETL (extract, transform and load) tools and then, quite separately, products for data cleansing and matching started to appear. However, it took some time before the vendors of the former realised the synergies that existed with the latter. The (partial) e