(Peter Aitken) Many Web sites strive to give their users a personalized experience. The Web site “remembers” each user and provides personalization and/or convenience features that can make the site experience more pleasant. For example, a web portal can present a user-selected array of information,

(Joel Thoms) The current implementation of ASP.NET 2.0’s security is great and I have fallen in love with it, but it’s still too limited. I will show you how to extend ASP.NET 2.0’s security using a custom HTTP Module and your existing Web.sitemap.

(Mark Hines) Using embedded resources with ASP.NET 2.0 has made deploying your server controls easier than ever. First, we will address some issues that need clarification when using embedded resources. Then, it will be time to leverage this power and its inherent flexibility to easily customize t

(Joel Murach and Anne Boehm) In this article, you will learn how to create a website that runs under IIS for testing purposes. You will also learn how to create and test a file-system website with the ASP.NET Development Server.

(Praveen K Prasad) During the development of the simplest “Hello World” application, we can see many bugs & other problems kicking us from back, this article shows how to get rid of the most common problems out here.

(Frank Giannino) Sybase recently released DataWindow .NET 2.0, a powerful object used to build data-driven .NET applications. The DataWindow offers nearly identical capabilities for both Windows Forms and Web (ASP.NET) Forms, and it’s versatile and easy to use, suitable for reporting, graphs, tree v

(Duncan Mackenzie) I set out to write this article about Visual Basic 2005, but that left too many things to choose from. I could wander through the entire feature list, giving you a bit of information on cool IDE features like Edit and Continue, IntelliSense Code Snippets, or the Exception Assistan

(David Catherman) This is the fourth part in a series of hands-on tutorials that will take you through all the steps to build a complete application using the new SQL Server 2005 database and Visual Studio 2005 IDE tools. The tutorial is finished by creating a Web Service to host the data and then c

(Wei-Meng Lee) Printing is an integral functionality found in almost every decent Windows application. For example, you might be working on a POS (Point of Sale) application and need to print receipts, or you may want to print out employee records from a database. In either case, you need to be able

(Vipul Patel) To recap a previous article, the new object initializer feature in C# 3.0 is a simple syntax that eases the construction and initialization of objects.