(Michael Stuart and J Sawyer) We’ve all been warned not to store secret information on computers. You know that storing passwords, credit card numbers, or Social Security numbers on your system is risky and can open the door for someone to steal that information. However, you may well have the need

(Wei-Meng Lee) There’s no shortage of useful, new controls to investigate in ASP.NET 2.0. In my last article, I discussed the new GridView and DetailsView controls. In that article I also discussed the use of the SqlDataSource control, which allows you to declaratively connect to a SQL data source w

(Karl Seguin) Questions regarding databinding, in one form or another, are probably the most asked in the ASP.NET newsgroups. It’s clear everyone loves the idea of databinding but that more advanced functionality, such as event handling, conditional formatting and fine-tuning, aren’t straightforward

(Wiktor Zychla) There are many different methodologies of the database programming. In fact, the one universal approach simply does not exist. A professional developer should not be deceived by some common concepts that are usable in typical situations but can be painful in a specific context. A

(Craig Andera) Microsoft’s .NET is a broad family of products representing the company’s next generation of services, software, and development tools. At the core of the .NET strategy lives the Common Language Runtime. The CLR is a platform for software development that provides services by cons

(Nihal J. Mehta) This week, in Part 2 of our tutorial, we will continue our investigation of ASP.NET from a classic ASP developer’s perspective. In Part 1, we showed how ASP.NET allows us to cleanly separate presentation markup from server side script code. Today, we will delve deeper and demons

(Dino Esposito) Most developers learnt it in the field already, found their own countermeasures, and live happy today. Other developers just wait for Microsoft to fix it in the next version of ASP.NET and perhaps live restless and uneasy today. What am I talking about? The leading topic of this

(Hitesh Seth) Microsoft developers working with Visual Studio and COM/OLE technologies have always enjoyed the benefits of a choice of programming languages for development of applications and components. Well, sort of. (For instance, components developed in one programming language couldn’t be “inh

(Craig Borysowich) In addition to the disk subsystem there are various components affecting the performance of any database application. In most cases, a good part of the performance improvement can be achieved from database design, physical layout of tables and indexes, appropriate indexes and

(Nihal J. Mehta) The combination of the .com boom of the ’90s and the success of Microsoft’s ASP technologies created a huge number of ASP programmers. The weaknesses of ASP are now well known, and the ability to translate ASP knowledge into a new platform is often the desire of many of these AS