(Jagadish Chaterjee) This article introduces you to designing and working with an SQL Server 2005 database using the Visual Studio 2005 Integrated Development Environment. You will also learn how to work with the “Grid View” control.

(Alejandro Gervasio) In this second part of a three-part series, we take up the topic of server-side validation. By the time you finish this article, you’ll have the general guidelines for how to build a form validating class. You’ll use some PHP built-in introspection functions, along with regular

(Mellonfire) In software design, efficiency is everything. The more efficient your code is, the faster it will run and the quicker it will respond to user commands. Inefficient, slow code usually needs to be reviewed and tweaked to make it run faster. But all of this is only possible if there ex

(Chris Sully) This article is the first in a series looking at ASP.NET 2.0 though it follows on from my earlier overview articles on the subject. In this article we’ll start with a consideration of the enhancements to existing controls that have been introduced. Many controls have gained new propert

(John Charles) To be competitive, companies must be agile; this one has become critical for competitiveness. They constantly have to adapt their organization and environment to more and more frequent technological changes, merges and acquisitions. But technology is often expensive and difficult.

(Gal Ratner) Since the data is usually physically separated from your application you need to somehow fetch and bring it to your application before it can be displayed to users, manipulated and saved back to your data source. In this article, we will compare and contrast the use of Java and .NET to

(george.p.alexander) Or ten. But here’s a condensed look at some of the changes and new features we would want to encounter while migrating from ADO.Net v1.x. Earlier we had a look at what’s in store for us C# 1.x developers jumping onto the C# v2.0 bandwagon. I’ve so far just scratched the surface

(Patrick Smacchia) In this book Microsoft MVP Patrick Smacchia gives a detailed overview of the .NET Framework and the C#2 language with these chapter excerpts covering the important topics of multithreading and security. In chapter 5 of “Practical .NET,” the author describes the process and thr

(Paul Kimmel) The My feature in Visual Studio 2005 provides abbreviated access to many commonly used features in .NET. For example, My in Visual Basic .NET makes the common task of accessing settings in an application configuration (App.config) file easier. It does this by using the CodeDOM to gener

(Brian Mains) Many are familiar with the DropDownList control, which inherits from ListControl. This control contains an Items collection property, which each item is rendered as a child item of the control, as the default property. How is this done? The following article will discuss this in detail