(A.P.Rajshekhar) This article shows you how to call COM components from Python, and shows you how to use COM extensions to access the mail merge functionalities of MS Word in Python.

(Tony Patton) We have examined two new ASP.NET 2.0 features that simplify designing the look and feel of a site: master pages and themes. This week we examine how they work together by combining the elements. Also, we take a closer look at what is available with Visual Studio 2005.

(Stuart Frost and Mark Theissen) The topic of data security breaches is increasingly in the daily headlines. We have all seen the headlines about data theft incidents from companies such as CardSystems Solutions, ChoicePoint and several educational institutions. In addition, companies such as Bank

(Joseph Schwartz) Business integration initiatives always start with an elegant premise: as data is the lifeblood of the real-time enterprise, efficient integration will make data flow more easily throughout corporate and partner systems, thus enabling quicker response times to new opportunities and

(Joydip Kanjilal) The performance of web applications is a serious concern for application developers in Microsoft .NET. This article discusses some tips and best practices that can be utilized for making performance improvement in .Net web applications. It also focuses on the art of better coding

(Naveen Lanke) Suppose you have a DataGrid with several columns full of data. The DataGrid contains several pages. You can disable paging and export all the data to Excel using the RenderControl method.

Enterprise-grade reporting and data analysis has become more decision oriented due to Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005. Moreover, the expenses involved in building and deploying applications have stayed down due to the low cost of the software. SQL Server 2005, being a highly reliable database platform f

(Muhammad Mosa) A transaction is a unit of work. You use transactions to ensure the consistency and integrity of a database. If a transaction is successful, all of the data modifications performed during the transaction are committed and made permanent. If an error occurs during a transaction, you c

(Paul Kimmel) A data stream is like a river where you set data adrift. You put data on the river and it floats along, waiting to be plucked out at some other location. As with streams in nature, you can move up or down the stream, see what’s there, and put in or take out things. Streams in .NET work

(Alejandro Gervasio) Welcome to the second tutorial of the series “Using HTTP compression in PHP.” In three parts, this series demonstrates how to apply HTTP compression to parsed PHP pages, in order to reduce their overall download times, which results in faster delivery of dynamic content.