(Brad Kingsley) I guess I’m from the “old school” because I learned coding without a fancy GUI and I still have a tendency to lean that direction when possible. The latest version of Visual Studio is a great tool, but I still like to understand what’s going on rather than just dragging and dropp

(Dave Doknjas) VB.NET and C# are so similar in expressive power and features that conversion between the two at first glance appears to be little more than adding or removing semicolons and curly braces. In fact, there are substantial differences between the two languages that you should be aware of

(Jinath Premaratne) The goal of this article is to illustrate some of the new feature in ASP.NET 2. This article is base on beta 1 release of asp.net 2.

(Dino Esposito) Microsoft Office documents not only offer an easy and effective way for users to communicate and collaborate, but they also get smarter with each new release and increase connectivity with the remainder of the software universe. In some cases, though, Office applications can’t re

(Klaus Salchner) You may not have written your own type converter yet. But, any time you develop a Web form or Windows form using the Visual Studio .NET designer or use the view state architecture of ASP.NET, you rely on the help of a type converter. As the name already states, type converters are u

(James Crowley) Microsoft plans for .NET framework to revolutionise the way developers work – both in terms of productivity and features. It has, however, introduced some problems that until now, many developers have not needed to worry about. Whatever language you choose to write your .NET programs

(Scott Mitchell) A couple weeks ago I gave a talk to the local San Diego ASP.NET SIG and during my talk I mentioned how I, personally, rarely, if ever, use DataSets in my ASP.NET applications, sticking with the good ol’ DataReader instead. Since then I have received a number of emails from atten

(Alejandro Gervasio) Modern websites demand heavy interaction between server-side and client-side programming. In the first part of this article series, we will implemented a simple mechanism to make PHP and JavaScript interact, creating a function which can build an array structure and store inform

(Alejandro Gervasio) In the first article in this series, we learned how to do simple pagination of records taken from a text file. In this article, we will look at pagination for a larger group of records, using an Objected Oriented rather than a procedural approach to creating the application.

(John Sasak) When it comes to database for .NET, there are several options in addition to the well known ones such as SQL Server or MySQL. One of them is Matisse, a post-relational database by Matisse Software.