(Joydip Kanjilal) The Repository design pattern adds a layer of abstraction on top of the query layer and helps to eliminate duplicate query logic in your application’s code. In his great book “Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture”, Martin Fowler defines the Repository Pattern as: “Mediat

(Sheo Narayan) This article shows how to upload single and multiple files using FileUpload control on the server using ASP.NET and ASP.NET + jQuery plug in. This articles also covers related configuration settings you need to set in order to limit the size and type of file to be uploaded.

(Ged Mead) We all pretty much take cursors for granted, don’t we? You wave your mouse about and the cursor obligingly follows. Easy. But what happens if you want to take control of the cursor? Sometimes it’s not quite so easy. Based on problems I’ve seen raised in the past few years, here are

(Simon Cooper) Custom attributes were designed to make the .NET framework extensible; if a .NET language needs to store additional metadata on an item that isn’t expressible in IL, then an attribute could be applied to the IL item to represent this metadata.

(Ed Guzman) When a developer wants to display a list of items with the ability to select some of them, there are not many options available, actually it comes to only two: –List box –Check box list

(Suprotim Agarwal) The Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition has some excellent Architecture tools for modeling new applications, as well as analyze an existing application. One tool amongst them is the ‘Dependency Graph’.

(Peter Vogel) It’s no secret that I’m a very big fan of visual designers which is probably why I don’t use the ListView control enough: No visual designer. That’s too bad because the ListView is, without a doubt, the most powerful control in the Data section of the toolbox. While the GridView lets y

(Scott Mitchell) Many websites display a news ticker of one sort or another. A news ticker is a user interface element that displays a subset of a list of items, cycling through them one at a time after a set interval. For example, on Cisco’s website there is a news ticker that shows the company’s l

(Mark Strawmyer) Welcome to this installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column. In this article we’re going to tackle a task that I’ve run in to a number of times as part of an application that has a number of integration points or data partners.

(Ken Downs) In this blog I have done at many articles on Normalization and Denormalization, but I have never put all of the arguments together in one place, so that is what I would like to do today.