(Juval Lowy) Generics are only supported on version 2.0 and above of the Microsoft .NET framework, as well as version 2.0 of the compact framework.

(Anand Kumar) Visual Studio 2005 express edition has lots of enhancements to increase developer productivity; the "Code Snippet" is one of those enhancements. I am going to talk about how code snippets can help you to write code faster based on predefined templates. I am also going to demonstrate h

(Juval Lowy) Review frequently asked questions regarding generic types and their various uses.

(Wei-Meng Lee) ASP.NET 2.0 comes with several new security controls located under the Login tab in the Toolbox (see Figure 1) that greatly simplify the life of a Web developer. Using the new security controls, you can now perform tasks such as user logins, registration, password changes, and more, w

(Steve Schwarting) Sometimes you don’t have a database table to work with, but you still want your page to be dynamic in terms of the data it presents to the user. Meaning, you don’t want to have to modify code in order to make the page display new information or information in a different way.

(Hammad Rajjoub) I thought getting used to C# 2.0 (as a programming language), ASP.NET 2.0(as web development platform) and SQL Server 2005 would be good enough of a thing as far as – understanding next release of .net framework (i.e. ver 2.0) was concerned. You bet! I was wrong. I felt like

Basic authentication has gotten a bad reputation over the years. So it’s not as flexible as forms authentication and not as secure as NT Challenge Response, it has something going for it that neither of these does – it’s basic – as in simple!

(James W. DeLoach) Making things up as you go along is rarely a good way to do business. However, that is how most companies were forced to approach their first year of compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), particularly Section 404. Lack of planning, understaffing and overwork were t

(Joshua Mostafa) We’re going to look at the development process, some common pitfalls, and suggestions on how to tackle each stage. In this article, we’ll look at the first steps of a project, from the light bulb going off over the developer’s head to just before she writes her first line of code.

(Qusay H. Mahmoud) A Java collection is a flexible data structure that can hold heterogeneous objects where the elements may have any reference type. It is your responsibility, however, to keep track of what types of objects your collections contain. As an example, consider adding an int to a co