(Ben Nadel) Last week, I was exploring the use of the Java’s java.net.HttpURLConnection class as a means to stream file data in a form POST without having to buffer the entire file in memory prior to transfer. This worked fine when the entire post consisted of the file data; but, would the same appr

(Peter Vogel) Microsoft’s announcement that HTML5 and JavaScript would be first-class tools for creating ‘Windows 8’ applications created consternation among some .NET developers. Would their investments in XAML and Silverlight be wasted? Would they be forced to work with HTML/JavaScript instead of

(Ged Mead) The Split function is quite versatile and frequently useful. One scenario I looked at recently was where the task was to find a user name in an ini file. Here’s how I went about it.

(JRINC) I worked a few weeks in an application that required the data to be displayed in a hierarchical structure that exemplify and make it easier to understand the structure of this information in particular.

(bmdayal) Its been a long time I have written any article on ASP.NET. Just few weeks back I got a very intresting requirement where I had to customize my GridView by Grouping the Columns and also merging the Rows by using Colspan properties. So while in View mode of GridView the data should be displ

The non-virtual interface pattern is a design pattern that controls how methods in a base class are overridden. Base classes include public, non-virtual members that may be called by clients and a set of overridable methods containing core functionality.

(Junnark Vicencio) An accordion-style user interface can be helpful when you have a few groups of data that has to be visible at all times, and when only one group’s items can be seen/active at a time.

(Scott Guthrie) The vNext releases of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities. With ASP.NET vNext you’ll see a bunch of really exciting improvements with both Web Forms and MVC – as well as in the core ASP.NET base foundation that both are built upon.

A very common need when programming almost any application is the ability to read data from a text file. Fortunately VB.NET excels at this sort of thing. In the tutorial that follows we will show exactly how you can read through a text file, parse the information, and use it in your Visual Basic app

(Ben Nadel) I can’t find the email, but a while back, someone asked me about POSTing very large files with ColdFusion’s CFHTTP and CFHTTPParam tags. This individual was running out of memory because ColdFusion apparently needed to load the entire file into the local RAM before posting it up to the t