(Tareq Shaheen) Exceptions, indicators of abnormal conditions that disrupt the normal flow of a program, are a prominent fixture of the Java language. You have to handle exceptions to write a useful Java program.

(Chas Profitt) I am a beginner. I wanted to share some experiences with other beginners. The first frustration we have is finding a book that teaches us what we want to learn. When looking at beginners books we all want to avoid the books that are too simple, but can’t yet crack the secret code the

(Scott Mitchell) ASP.NET 1.x provides four Web controls that serve as list controls: –The DropDownList, –The CheckBoxList, –The RadioButtonList, and –The ListBox

(Peter Vogel) With ASP.NET 2.0 almost in developers’ hands, it’s time to think about ASP.NET 3.0. The safe bet is that Microsoft will continue the evolution from ASP.NET 1.* to ASP.NET 2.0: more encapsulation of common development tasks into controls and objects, more work in giving Web development

The diversity and pace of today’s business require complementary tools that support greater variability of use and dynamic interaction with the data to support operational managers as they explore and evaluate interrelationships in the data. An operational manager doing trend analysis on a particula

(Harish Kamath) The term “content management” has a very important place in any web master’s dictionary and I am no exception. After all, visitors will only return to a website if they have a compelling reason to do so, and dynamically updated content provides one such reason. However, this would al

(Peter Varhol) There are many directions that Microsoft could conceivably take with future versions of Visual Studio. Support for new operating system features is almost a given. And based on some presentations being given at the 2005 PDC this week, it appears that the company has chosen working wit

(Yasan Gooding) In an analytical environment, business analysts want to have data at their fingertips that is complementary. In many cases, that data exists in several reports and requires switching from one report to another which often bogs down the users’ computers. The solution has been for most

(Stephen Toub) I’m using a method from a third-party library that expects me to pass a Stream to it. I want to be able to trace that library’s activities with my Stream in order to better understand some behavior in my application. Is there a way to do this?

If you’ve been working with the DataGrid Control you understand the difference of the different templates and how you can use the FooterTemplate to create functionality so a user can add in a new row to your datasource. But showing and hiding the Footer Template isn’t enough to make a good UI. This