(Anne Marie Smith) Literally “data about data”, metadata is a concept that is receiving increased visibility throughout the information systems communities, making the need for understanding metadata and its varied roles across the design and use of systems and the information they capture. To make

(Scott Mitchell) The membership and roles providers used by ASP.NET by default are the SqlMembershipProvider and SqlRoleProvider, respectively, which serialize membership and roles information to a SQL Server database. Specifically, this information is stored in a variety of pre-defined tables and a

(Patrick Smacchia) From now on, we will suppose that T is a parameter type. The C#2 language allows you to: –Cast implicitly an instance of a type T (if T is a value type, else a reference of type Tobjet type. If T is a value type, a boxing operation will occur. –Cast explicitly a reference o

(Steve Abram) Okay, so I developed a rather simple web application used to track forms in an office. It seemed easy and harmless enough. But the trouble began when I went to deploy it.

(Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina) Framework Design Guidelines teaches developers best practices for designing system frameworks and reusable libraries for use with the Microsoft .NET Framework and WinFX. This book focuses on the design issues that directly affect the programmability of a framework

(Dimitrios Markatos) It has always been a goal of project architects to plan an effective strategy from the ground up in regards to an new application. All relevant factors are taken into consideration with respect to the application, from its design and layout to a functional website infrastructure

(Anand Thakur) This article serves as a guide to using System.DirectoryServices (SDS) ADSI to access user and group in the Windows Active Directory. Authenticate a user against the Active Directory using the user ID and password.

(Tony Patton) I finally had an opportunity to utilize version two of the .NET Framework when a client decided to redesign an existing ASP site using ASP.NET 2.0. Many new features help to streamline development; one of my favorite features is master pages. I’ll describe the master pages design eleme

(Waleed El Tamimi) Merely, every application today uses a relational database as its backend, applications used to be monolithic and structured, but with the need for more functionality and ease of use, applications became larger, more complex and harder to maintain, and the solution for rapid devel

(A.P.Rajshekhar) In this article, you will continue to learn about the process of building a GUI in PyQT. Specifically, you will learn about QDialog and QPushButton, which handle windows and buttons, the building blocks of most GUIs.