(Peter Aitken) The concept of a control is important in many areas of programming. By encapsulating functionality and often visual interface elements as well, controls provide many benefits to the programmer, not the least of which is code reusability.

(Jon Skeet) A lot of confusion has been wrought by people explaining the difference between value types and reference types as “value types go on the stack, reference types go on the heap”. This is simply untrue (as stated) and this article attempts to clarify matters somewhat.

(Ted Pattison) When you begin to work with the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and ASP.NET, you discover that the new Web Parts infrastructure adds some very powerful functionality to the underlying platform. In the September 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine, Fritz Onion and I have an article on programming

(Don Kiely) It is critical to write applications that don’t require full trust and that use lesser-privileged host accounts — NETWORK SERVICE on Windows Server 2003 or ASPNET in earlier versions of Windows. That simple step gives you a lot of security, but sometimes it makes things harder than they

(Laishram Priyokumar) DotNet and J2EE are both widely used technologies for creating Middleware solutions. Sometime we do have code that can get us more benefit from running on the .NET framework and some of the code exists in J2EE application already. And also to achieve the best of everything in s

(Alejandro Gervasio) Most developers must deal with the job of developing robust data validation for forms on a regular basis. Nobody wants to write the same code over and over, so this article (the first of three in a series) will help you develop an extensible and reusable form validation package.

Improve the availability of CRM data for information workers by creating a sample Outlook add-in and associated set of utility classes using Visual Studio Tools for Office that displays enterprise CRM data naturally within the Outlook user interface.

Want to save some time writing code for that next big project? The new code snippets feature in Visual Studio 2005 will enable the developer to have a toolset of commonly used code for performing various functions.

(Paul Kimmel) The partial keyword was introduced in version 2.0 of the .NET framework. Very simply, the partial keyword permits you to split the definition of a single class, structure, or interface into more than one file. This means that if you’re working on large projects, multiple developers can

(Marcus Zarra) Apache’s AXIS has become a — some might say “the” — standard for developing SOAP services in Java and other languages. The normal deployment path is to build either a servlet or POJO (Plain Old Java Object) to receive the SOAP requests, and use the axis servlet to handle all of the ta