(Robert Walling) ASP.NET form validators spelled the end of repetitive validation code. What used to take hours can now be accomplished in a matter of minutes using Visual Studio.NET’s drag-and-drop interface. ASP.NET form validators offer flexibility both in the types of validation they support and

(Alejandro Gervasio) Dynamic Web pages take longer to load than static ones, which forces visitors to your site to wait — and we all know they won’t wait for very long. Output caching is a powerful technique you can use to shorten that wait and keep them from leaving.

(Deepak Goel) Scalability is one of the most important non-functional requirements of a system. But there could be several bottlenecks within a system, which might prevent it from being scalable. In this article, we try to analyze the case in which the software infrastructure becomes a bottleneck, l

(Jeff Prosise) By now, developers everywhere have had the opportunity to download the first beta of the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. ASP.NET developers who have played with it are no doubt salivating at all the cool new features. From Master Pages to declarative data access to new controls to a

(Andrew Hudson) The goal of this paper is to provide a business overview of Microsoft’s .NET initiative, how it ties together a variety of products into a corporate strategy, how it was used to respond to competitors, what strategies Microsoft used to drive .NET forward, and what problems occurred d

(Rick Strahl) ASP.NET has raised the bar for Web development considerably with very rich developer functionality built into a flexible and highly extensible object model. For developers who come from a background of hand coding ASP or other scripting or CGI style technology .Net seems almost too goo

(Adam Neat) We put five of the most popular Java Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) up against each other. Find out which tool is tailor made for your development requirements. (R)

The Designing .NET Class Libraries series presents design guidelines for developing classes and components that extend the .NET Framework. The goal of the Designing .NET Class Libraries series is to encourage consistency and predictability in public APIs while enabling Web and cross-language integra

(Wei-Meng Lee) Caching has long been recognized as one of the more effective ways to improve your ASP.NET web applications. However, one particular caching feature that was dearly missing in ASP.NET 1.x was SQL cache dependency. SQL cache dependency is the ability to invalidate a database cache if d

(John Kaster) This is a log of the chat room during the live audio chat from December 20, 2004 on Delphi 2005 with Ramesh Theivendran and Joerg Weingarten. They discuss database features in Delphi 2005.