(Douglas Reilly) Dave Sussman is one of the ASP Insiders, a group of international professionals with a demonstrated expertise in ASP.NET technologies. He is also a well-known author and speaker. Most recently, Dave co-authored ADO.NET and System.Xml v. 2.0 – The Beta Version with Alex Homer and Mar

(Brian Vaughn) Picking up where we left off in part one, we will work on some more helper methods and our conversion method. By the time we are done, we wil lhave a fully functional image to text converter.

(Tony Patton) There are various scenarios where certain sections of code are not necessary depending upon what you are compiling. For example, you may want to include debugging code during testing but with final application roll-out. Thankfully, C#, VB.NET, and even J# provide this functionally via

(Matt Nicholson) Is Biztalk Server Microsoft’s version of the Enterprise Service Bus? This interview discusses this together with human workflow and long-running transactions with Scott Woodgate from Microsoft’s Business Process and Integration team.

(Ian Griffiths and Chris Sells) The current Win32-based Windows UI graphics subsystem, found in Windows XP, has been around for nearly 20 years. It’s aging and limited, and as a result, user interface development has been somewhat, well, constrained at best.

(Matt Milner) Over my years of working with clients on building Microsoft .NET Framework-based applications, I have often heard a common feature request for Visual Studio .NET: “It would be great if we could create our own project types and item types so that all developers in our organization would

(Roy Osherove) There’s a lot of talk these days about unit testing and how one should go about writing unit tests for their applications under different scenarios (for starters, see my June 2005 MSDN Magazine article on testing your data layer, available at Know Thy Code: Simplify Data Layer Unit Te

(Paul Kimmel) Advanced features like operator overloading don’t make VB.NET 2.0 harder to use. Most advanced features — including operator overloading and multithreading — are unobtrusively tucked out of the way. In this article, I demonstrate a methodical approach that makes overloading operators e

(Ted Neward) In the halcyon days of my youth, a major candy manufacturer ran an advertising campaign. It was destined to be a timeless classic, one that sticks with you for the rest of your life: a scene would be some typical meeting place (like a park or a street), one actor would walk from one en

(Fritz Onion) I often find when using templated data-bound controls (in either ASP.NET 1.1 or 2.0) that my expressions become rather difficult to understand because of the need to fit all of your logic into a single expression.