(scott) In a previous article, we looked at Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0. Master pages allow you to dictate the layout and common content for the pages in your application using template files with a .master extension. The Themes feature in ASP.NET 2.0 allows you to dictate the appearance of controls

(Peyton McCullough) I’m sure you know all about wxPython’s primary frame, wxFrame. It is the basis for most of your windows and will most likely continue to be. Of course, though, wxPython offers other things to put controls on. I’m sure you’re getting bored of attaching your controls to slight vari

(Chris Sully) The aim of this series of articles is to provide an overview of issues surrounding the architecture of .NET Solutions. In doing so it is following Microsoft’s recommended approach and, in particular, looking at the requirements of the related Microsoft certification exam (70-300), whic

(J.D. Meier, Alex Mackman, Blaine Wastell, Prashant Bansode and Kishore Gopalan) This page explains the rationale behind the patterns & practices Security Guidance for .NET Framework 2.0 project and provides an index into the guidance. You can use the guidance referenced on this page to improve both

(Thiru Thangarathinam) One of the new features of ADO.NET 2.0 is the ability to create provider-independent data access code that enables you to code against a set of base abstract classes without referencing provider-specific classes. The key advantage of this approach is that it gives you the opti

(Don Kiely) I recently spoke at several software developer user groups around the country and made this assertion, representing it as one of the fundamental truths of computing today: The fact that most people run with administrative rights on their local machine is the root cause of many or most of

(Michael-K) While writing a program for the step-by-step editing and keeping of a complex document, I had an idea that allowed me to solve this problem in a simple and efficient way.

(Gary Blatt) The Enterprise Library is a collection of Application Blocks released by the Patterns and Practices group within Microsoft. (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/practices/default.mspx). It is an update to the previous Application Blocks for .NET that includes complete architectural chang

This document contains a list of changes from Whidbey Beta 2 to RTM.

(Stephen Toub) Do you write reliable managed code? Obviously if your manager asks you that question, you’ll want the answer to be yes. You use try/finally blocks to release resources deterministically and you eagerly dispose all of your disposable objects. So, of course, your code is reliable, right