Visual Studio’s Add Reference dialog box allows assemblies to reference each other in order that code from one assembly can be accessed from another. The use of the dialog box can be improved by including custom assemblies in the standard list.

(Mahesh Sabnis) We often face requirements to display data in different UI Layouts. Some users like to view data in a Tabular form using DataGrid, while some like to view data in a List form record-by-record. Along with viewing, users also perform Update and Delete operations on the records displaye

(Phil Haack) By default, ASP.NET MVC leverages Data Annotations to provide validation. The approach is easy to get started with and allows the validation applied on the server to “float” to the client without any extra work.

(Bipin Joshi) C# is primarily a statically typed language. That means the compiler needs to know in advance about the data type of a variable. In the absence of this information, the compiler will throw a compilation error and will refuse to compile the code.

(Ben Nadel) Before we get into this, I just want to say that this was nothing more than a fun experiment. I don’t honestly think that this approach holds any kind of practical value; mostly, I just wanted to see if I could make it happen (at least in a proof-of-concept kind of way).

(Michal Altair Valášek) Web components (such as ASP.NET Web Controls), often need to contain or access binary data, such as images, style sheets and JavaScript. Of course you can package them loose with your assembly and force developers to copy them to places where your components would expect them

(Bipin Joshi) The ASP.NET Query Extender server control allows you to filter data retrieved from a data source without changing the underlying query. It can be used on web forms that allow end users to search or filter data based on certain criteria. This article explores the Query Extender control

(Peter Vogel) One of the best things about .NET is that virtually everything you do in Visual Studio generates some text in a file. This means that, when you need to make a change to several places in your code, you can often make that change with a global Find and Replace.

(Steven Smith) A Value Object is an object that has no unique identity, but rather represents a characteristic of something else. For instance, the integer 7 can be used anywhere and always means the same thing – we don’t think about this or that particular instance of the integer 7.

(Scott Mitchell) This article explores how to programmatically generate and display Code 39 barcodes using ASP.NET and the GDI+ classes in the System.Drawing namespace.