(Peter Vogel) The Web.config provides a central point of control for those few, but critical, items that change between the development/test environment and the production environment. Of course, it also means that if you deploy your Web.config file incorrectly, your production system ends up updati

(kahanu) This application shows you how you can update data in a single form in a list of forms. First of all I want to mention that this is not the only way to do this, but it’s one way and a very effective and fairly simply way. You may modify this method as you need.

(Dave Richter) Sometimes the terms concurrency and parallelism are used interchangeably. But a multi-threaded application can have threads execute simultaneously while residing on one physical chip. Parallelism, however, is achieved only when those concurrent threads are executing on separate cores

(Ben Nadel) The other day, I was performing an AJAX request that executed a number of laborious tasks on the server. As I was doing this, I thought it would create a very nice user experience if I could provide some sort of piece-wise feedback in the user interface.

(Ed Guzman) Many programmers try to avoid delegates in their development. We all know that we can develop anything we want with our familiar development tools and methods and that a particular functionality can be developed in many different ways, so why bother and use delegates when we can be bette

(Greg Shackles) I recently stumbled across something with ASP.NET MVC action filters where they weren’t being executed in quite the order I was expecting. More specifically, I had made a poor assumption that filters defined at the Controller level would all execute prior to any action-level filters.

(Eric Landes) Crystal reports (CR), a long-time Visual Studio add-in staple, is not included out of the box with VS 2010 this time. Traditionally CR has been the reporting tool of choice included with VS. While the Crystal Report engine is not included with VS 2010, there is still a CR template in

(Joe Kunk) The Enum or enumeration is one of the fundamental constructs in the .NET Framework, serving as an easy-to-remember set of names for a series of fixed values that are logically related, such as the days of the week, the mode options for opening a file, etc. That is all we need to know abou

(Ben Nadel) With the release of ColdFusion 8, we now have the ability to create application-specific mappings directly within our Application.cfc ColdFusion framework components. This functionality works perfectly for both createObject() method calls as well as for the CFComponent Extends attribute;

(Wes Miller) Virtualization has gone from being a test lab technology to a mainstream component in datacenters and virtual desktop infrastructures. Along the way, virtualization has occasionally received a “get out of jail free” card, and has not had the same degree of efficient IT practices applied