(Peyton McCullough) In this article, we will focus on two basic controls and a few relatives: checkboxes and radio buttons. Both controls give the user a variety of options and yet him or her choose anywhere from one to all of them.
Tag: Development
Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft.NET Solution Architectures, Part IX
(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),
Boosting Your .NET Application Performance – Introduction
(James Yang) I often ask other developers which phase of the development process is the most difficult and most important. 90% of the time the answer is the planning and design phase, not the building/programming phase. Then I ask them another question. “Which part of the development phase do you en
A Crash Course on Custom ASP.NET Data-bound Controls
(Dino Esposito) Data-bound controls make ASP.NET programming much easier. They expose a bunch of properties and methods to link their properties to a valid data source and they know how to build their user interface to reflect the contents of the data source. Data-bound controls work by repeatin
Examining Organizational Workflows under the hood of .NET
(razi_rais) Being a software practitioner and also a hardcore .net developer there are numerous amounts of times in the recent years I come across the need of building a Workflow. Almost every single corporate organization in this world use computer automation in one way or another, and when we tal
Comparing Java and .NET Security: Lessons Learned and Missed
(Nathanael Paul and David Evans) Many systems execute untrusted programs in virtual machines (VMs) to limit their access to system resources. Sun introduced the Java VM in 1995, primarily intended as a lightweight platform for execution of untrusted code inside web pages. More recently, Microsoft d
Transfer the Functionality of VB6 Control Arrays to VB.NET
(Mike Groh) I was somewhat distressed to discover that I couldn’t use control arrays in VB.NET or ASP.NET. I frequently use control arrays in VB6 to condense the code behind my forms, and I’d like to do the same in Visual Studio .NET. Is there some way I can duplicate the utility of control arrays i
Security Practices: ASP.NET 2.0 Security Practices at a Glance
(J.D. Meier, Alex Mackman, Blaine Wastell, Prashant Bansode, Andy Wigley and Kishore Gopalan) This module presents a set of consolidated practices designed to address ASP.NET version 2.0 security issues. The answers and recommendations presented in this module are tight distillations designed to sup
Serialization: the What and the Why
(Peter Aitken) You hear and see the word serialization a lot in documentation and discussions about .Net. I have found, however, that quite a few programmers do not really understand what serialization is, or why you would use it.
Building Apache the Way You Want It
(Peter Wainwright) Apache comes in ready-to-install binary packages, which for many applications is perfectly adequate. Apache also comes with source code, making it possible to build the entire server from scratch with a suitable compiler.