(Jay Hilyard) Since the inception of .NET, the common language runtime (CLR) profiling API has been the mechanism to use to inspect what the runtime is doing under the covers. Many profilers simply report how much time is spent in a given routine, file, or class, but the profiling API is much more c

(Chris Sully) This series of articles is examining some of the issues around building a traditional B2C shopping cart e-commerce site using ASP.NET (VB.NET) and SQL Server using the Commerce Starter Kit (CSK) as a starting code base. In this article we’ll take a look at the shopping cart impleme

(Scott Mitchell) The one constant in the field of computer science is change. Each month, it seems like, new technologies arise, old ones fall out of favor. New techniques for accomplishing the same old things arise. A new thing comes around, making the old thing seem less exciting. Let’s face i

(John Papa) ASP.NET 2.0 introduces a series of new tools that improve data access including several data source and data bound controls. The new assortment of data source controls can eliminate a ton of repetitive code that was required in ASP.NET 1.x. For example, you can easily associate SQL state

(Paul Kimmel) You can implement very advanced solutions with .NET Remoting. XML Web Services is an example of a general .NET Remoting solution. If you are writing distributed applications you can often use XML Web Services as an easy form of Remoting. That said, let’s talk about .NET Remoting.

(Matt Adamson) Many developers who still use ASP pages for presentation services are integrating COM and .NET objects to provide the business services of the application. Using .NET objects from ASP can help developers gain experience with the .NET Framework before migrating to ASP.NET. Their ASP pa

(Venkat Tipparam) J2EE has emerged as the standard platform for developing server-side Java applications, and although it offers many benefits to Java developers—portability, scalability, and integration capabilities, for example—it also offers a fair number of challenges, among them being grappling

(Rico Mariani) If you think you’ve got memory leaks, or if you’re just wondering what kind of stuff is on your heap you can follow the very same steps that I do and get fabulous results your friends will envy. OK, well maybe not, but they’re handy anyway. These steps will help you to go from a sus

(Steve Johnson) In this article I will explain the classes and code necessary to put encryption to work in your applications. I will also explain the basic principles of operation of these classes and point out several pitfalls to avoid.

(Omkaram Ravikanth) Microsoft has released their most complete and powerful IDE yet in Visual Studio .NET. From the vast library of project templates, to the incredibly easy to use Web Forms designer, to solid tools for visually integrating databases, VS.NET provides an excellent environment for the