(Mark Strawmyer) In one of my early .NET Nuts & Bolts columns, I wrote about database-independent data access. The article basically demonstrates the use of the factory design pattern to decide at runtime which specific instances of database-related objects to create. It was a necessary evil for tho

(Trevor Misfeldt) I’ve been implementing numerical libraries in .NET and have come to some conclusions about iteration performance. My classes have to hold a large amount of data and be able to iterate through that data as quickly as possible. In order to compare various methods, I created a sim

(Serguei Eremenko) Unfortunately, a documentation process can be time consuming and complex, becoming a burden for developers that leads to documentation which is both incomplete and unsynchronised with ongoing modifications. Source code documentation is a significant part of the whole documenta

(Scott Mitchell) The DataGrid control, as you likely know, can easily be configured to add a column of buttons. By adding a ButtonColumn, whenever one of the DataGrid’s buttons in the column is clicked, the Web page posts back and the DataGrid’s ItemCommand event fires. In fact, the same behavio

(James Hein) So what exactly is Microsoft’s .NET environment? Is it a programming language, a development environment, a Microsoft direction for the future, a collection of different applications with some common thread, some kind of services layer? In a word the answer is yes _ .NET is all of that

(Tony Patton) Developers often get so wrapped up in the technologies they’re using in their current project that they forget how important it is to keep abreast of emerging technologies. Get a sneak peek of what’s coming down the development pike from Microsoft.

(Alejandro Gervasio) In part three of our series about paginating records with PHP, we will learn how to make our application work with a relational database system such as MySQL. We will develop a tight, compact PHP class, capable of performing the most common paging tasks efficiently.

(David Chu) As a practitioner of the bottom-up development methodology, advocated by Ralph Kimball and my colleague Pieter Mimno, I am involved daily in the creation of enterprise data warehouse applications using an iterative bottom-up approach. However, as a “software development geek” with a long

(Huseyin Altindag) This is the second part of Using ADO.NET for beginners. It is a simple Personal Address Program that returns results from a database table, writes the output to textboxes, and uses buttons (First, Previous, Next, Last) to navigate through the records.

(John Kilgo) Virtually any code that is repeated in more than one program you write should be self-contained in one form or another. Page headers and footers, for example, are often placed in user controls so that they can be easily, and consistently, added to every page. Other code and controls oft