(Justin James) It can be difficult to navigate the .NET waters, especially if you are new to the arena. Over the next couple of months, I will write about some of the biggest areas of the .NET ecosystem and offer overviews of the major players in those areas.

(Suprotim Agarwal) It’s very common to use client script like jQuery to perform actions on the ASP.NET GridView. I have written articles in the past that shows how to use jQuery with controls like the Checkbox inside a GridView.

(Jovan Popovic) JQuery DataTables plugin is an excellent client-side component that can be used to create rich-functional tables in the web browser. This plugin adds lot of functionalities to the plain HTML tables that are placed in web pages such as filtering, paging, sorting, changing page length

(Jonathan Evans) Automated error reporting is essential, especially if you’re close to your customers. Bugs in applications will always happen – but the way that you deal with them can make a big difference to you and your users.

(Ged Mead) Most of the LINQ query operators are fairly straightforward, but for some reason I’ve always found Group By to be a bit tricky. So I thought a sample that uses Northwind might help, in case anyone else is having trouble using it.

Validating URLs is important to form handling and PHP data processing. Currently there are numerous solutions for validating URLs. This article will take a look at some of the most commonly used methods of validating URLs in PHP: the Regex method and the PHP built-in Filter_validate_URL.

(Patrick Steele) In early 2009, the company I work for was offered the job of rewriting an old Web site that used ASP.NET WebForms. The site integrated with a SQL Server database as well as a SharePoint installation. The people in charge of maintaining the site told us it was populated with old code

(Joydip Kanjilal) Microsoft’s ASP.NET framework is a very successful web application development framework and has over the past few decades, matured to a state where it has become the best choice for developing highly scalable, high-performance web applications in a managed environment.

(Yakov Werde) Yours truly has been busy for the last few months learning the ins and outs of migrating Classic applications to .NET.

(Scott Mitchell) The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a popular file format for documents. PDF files are a popular document format for two primary reasons: first, because the PDF standard is an open standard, there are many vendors that provide PDF readers across virtually all operating systems, an