(Paul Kimmel) The old adage that the only constant is change is true. Even when change makes things easier, change can be disruptive without an oracle. In this article, I will show you how you can build on knowledge you have about connection strings and encrypting data—especially if you are a long t

(Tony Ho) Microsoft Visual Studio .NET is a new revolution in computer programming. I am grateful that Microsoft developed such a great IDE for us. .NET had a lot of changes to the way we program and what we program in (especially in Visual Basic). ADO.NET had also a substantial difference from its

(Paul Glavich) Performance is a concern for all but the simplest of applications. Making your applications perform well seems a simple enough ask, but it can be something of a black art. This is where profiling comes in.

(Scott Mitchell) While you, me, and other countless developers around the world have been learning and working with version 1.x of the .NET Framework over the last several years, the developers inside Microsoft have been hard at work on version 2.0. At the time of this article’s writing (April 27th,

(Paul Kimmel) In present editions of .NET, you can build connections with a .udl file, and copy and paste into a .config file. If you cleverly decided to encrypt your connection string, you could use the DataProtection (DPAPI) wrapper created in “Encrypt DataSets for Offline Storage”. All of these c

(Kendall Scott) This article will begin our look at the details of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) by exploring how we do basic modeling of things and concepts in the real world.

(Miguel A. Castro) Lately I’ve come to notice that no other programming term has more definitions than declarative programming. In this article, I will attempt to explain declarative programming in terms of how it applies to .NET development, specifically ASP.NET through the use of WebControls. I’ll

(Michael Pilone) It’s time again to open up your developer’s toolbox and make room for the new must-have tool, virtual machines. As a software consultant, I find myself traveling from customer to customer and constantly working in new development environments. As interesting as that is, a new enviro

(Luther Miller) You’ve probably thought about creating a Windows service if you’ve ever needed to create a continuously running job. Maybe you’ve also considered ways to monitor critical systems and alert someone if anything is not as it should be. Imagine receiving a message on your cell phone

(Alejandro Gervasio) Putting all of your content for a particular file on one page can be very user unfriendly to website visitors. Nobody likes to be confronted by a tiny vertical scroll bar! In this article, the first in a series, you will learn a simple way to paginate records from a text file us