(Mike Brind) This is another post which was inspired by a recent question in the ASP.NET forums, when someone asked what the difference is between @functions and @helpers in ASP.NET Web Pages. Here, I look at both of these contructs and explain what they are, how they are different, and how each sho

(Vince Varallo) This article will demonstrate how to use the new Code First feature in the Entity Framework 4.1.

(Ben Nadel) When creating or augmenting user interfaces with JavaScript, I often find myself in a situation where I have to insert a new DOM element into a collection of existing DOM elements based on some sort of comparison.

(Suprotim Agarwal) SOS is a very useful debugger extension DLL, designed to aid in the debugging of managed programs. In a previous article, I had shown how to Debug .NET 4.0 applications using SOS extension where we had discussed where to download the extensions from and how to use it in your appli

(Ged Mead) In this earlier article, I looked at how to change various settings of a DataGridView in code at run time. One of these settings was the color used for the alternate rows of the grid. To keep things simple, I hard coded those values.

(Joydip Kanjilal) A Computer Network implies two or more computers linked together through some software or hardware for the purpose of exchanging data and information. Microsoft .NET provides excellent support for writing programs that can make use of sockets for communication between two or more p

(Vivek Krishnamurthy) In this article, I would like to demonstrate one of the many approaches of scheduling tasking. In this case, I am taking an ASP.NET application using workflow foundation. However, the preferred way to implement is to use Task scheduler or Windows service as your primary option.

(Ben Nadel) A couple of months ago, I blogged about changes in ColdFusion 9 that allowed the onRequestEnd() event handler to be called after a CFLocation tag. In the comments to that post, David Boyer brought it to my attention that, as of ColdFusion 9, the CFAbort tag worked the same – that is, tha

(Abhimanyu Kumar Vatsa) A static class is basically the same as a non-static class, but there is one difference: a static class cannot be instantiated. In other word, we cannot use the new keyword to create a variable of the class type. Because there is no instance variable, we access the members of

(Stuart Leeks) Earlier this year Microsoft released ASP.NET MVC version 3 (asp.net/mvc), as well as a new product called WebMatrix (asp.net/webmatrix). The WebMatrix release included a number of productivity helpers to simplify tasks such as rendering charts and tabular data.