(Scott Swigart) In this two-part article series, you’ll see how you can easily add encryption and data compression (ZIP) capabilities to existing Visual Basic 6 applications using the .NET Framework. While encryption and compression may not seem like related technologies, if you think about it, each

(Alan Zeichick) The release of ADO.NET 2.0, as part of the Visual Studio 2005 launch and the refresh of the .NET Framework and Common Language Runtime, passed relatively unnoticed. That’s understandable. With so much going on in the Microsoft tools domain, with the new Visual Studio Team System, SQL

(William Tay) In this article I will show you how you can implement security on a WCF service. There are many options and extensibility points for implementing security in WCF. You can also use specific products, such as the Windows 2003 Server Authorization Manager, together with WCF to implement t

(Brian Noyes) In .NET 1.0, the DataGrid control was the primary Windows Forms control for presenting tabular data. Even though that control had a lot of capability and could present basic tabular data well, it was fairly difficult to customize many aspects of the control. Additionally, the DataGrid

(Mellonfire) Whether they’re being used to display the current server time or record the exact instance of a database entry, PHP’s date and time functions are a critical part of any Web developer’s toolkit. Any tool, however, is only as good as the craftsman wielding it; and that’s where this docume

(Mike Gunderloy) Although fashions come and go in software development, some things stay remarkably constant. One of these is the use of databases. You may be wonderfully up-to-date with an AJAX Web interface or the latest whizbang Windows user interface, but under the covers, you’re probably still

(David Fells) This article explains what polymorphism is and how it applies to object oriented design in particular. It also explains the pros and cons of polymorphism when working with certain versions of PHP.

(Samuel Isaac) Most database designers probably don’t set out trying to “normalize their database”. They just come out with this nice, logical design that happens to be normalized (usually up to the 3rd Normal Form) though that wasn’t the primary goal. The primary goal is usually performance.

(chandan_is) Validation is an important part of any web application. Validation control is one of the best features that the .Net Environment provides. The era of writing big, time-consuming codes for validating user inputs is now a thing of the past. The drag-n-drop feature of validation control sa

(Deborah Kurata) There are some pieces of code that you write over and over again. Some of these pieces make sense as standard components or standard methods, such as logging or validation. Other pieces are more unique and cannot easily be made into standard methods, like Property procedures, For lo