(Tom Archer) This article illustrates how to use the WindowsIdentity and WindowsPrincipal classes to test for a user’s inclusion in a specified security group and how to use the PrincipalPermission class to perform a security check against the active principal.

(Rusty Speidel) Displaying two-dimensional table data in a grid is one of the most common programming tasks. When the number of rows is small, a single page with a scrollbar is sufficient, but when the data has many rows, it’s usually better to display a few rows at a time, adding controls that give

(Robert L. Bogue) If you’ve not yet learned about user controls, you’re missing a powerful feature in ASP.NET. User controls are page fragments that can be inserted into Web pages just like a Web control. The difference is that user controls retain their visual design in Visual Studio. This means th

(Palo Mraz) When developing Windows Forms controls it is often useful to provide your own, drop-down type editors for some of the control’s properties. Custom type editors provide for richer design-time experience and they might be the deciding factor whether your users like your controls or not.

(Scott) On April 30, 1999 U.S. taxpayers lost over 1.2 billion dollars due to a small mistake in software configuration management. It was on this day that a Titan IVB rocket was scheduled to put the U.S. Air Force’s most advanced communication satellite into orbit. The Titan rocket track record inc

(William N. McCrosky) This article discusses the challenges of merging unstructured data into BI systems and provides an example of such a merge to solve an organziational problem.

(Xodiak) This Function takes in a DataSet and File Name, and writes the dataset to an excel worksheet. The code is pretty straightfoward. Great thing about this function is that its technically an XML file that is saved as a XLS file, so it can be used as either file format. No more leading zero tru

(Bill Hatfield) In the previous article in this series, “Discovering Visual Basic .NET: Making Decisions”, you found out how to make your programs smarter by letting them make their own decisions. In the this article, I’ll introduce the topic of looping and show you how to get your program to execut

(Mark Robinson) One of the greatest risks to success any company implementing a business intelligence system can make is rushing a data warehouse into service without testing it.

(Ken Richardson) Believe it or not, these are actual headlines from recent trade journals. And they contain a pattern – a frightening one: AOL Customer List Stolen, Sold to Spammer Acxiom Database Hacked Again IRS Computers Vulnerable, Report Says Offshore Outsourcing Poses Privacy P