(Rick Malek) COBOL developers like other Developers have for years used various techniques to identify and handle issues when processing yields results that are unexpected during execution of their code. While the techniques vary in each shop there is a technique that is more widely used in the .NET

(Malcolm Sheridan) Another great feature to be introduced into ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 is global filters. Global filters are a way of registering controller or action level filters in the one place. The advantage of this is you no longer need to decorate every controller or action with an attribute

(Paul Kimmel) I was sitting on a plane from Montreal a few years back next to a math professor from McGill University and casually asked him what was new and hot in mathematics. He said: cryptography and encryption. Of course, secrets. In an information age, secrets and secret data are going to be p

(Ben Nadel) A few days ago, I blogged about overloading Javascript functions with a sub-function approach. In that post, I demonstrated that branching logic could be factored-out into the core function in such a way that the individual sub-functions could execute with a very narrow set of concerns.

(Mahesh Chand) In this article, I will discuss how to create and use a ToolStrip control and use its properties and methods.

(Ben Nadel) Overriding jQuery methods (or any function for that matter) is a relatively straight forward process. All you have to do is get a reference to the old method (if you need to keep it) and then override the object key (method name) using your new function. A while back, however, I was read

(Devon Musgrave) Developers, we’re pleased to announce another free offering: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Microsoft Press, 2011; 336 pages), written by Patrice Pelland, Pascal Paré, and Ken Haines.

In any datasets each attribute has its own range. For instance an age attribute can have a maximum range up several hundred. On the contrary, monthly salary attribute will always have range in thousands. Abnormal minimum and maximum values (noise) can also lead to misinterpretation of data.

(Ged Mead) I’ve already blogged about some useful features of the WPF TextBox, here and here. In this this blog item I’ll cover a few more of them. Specifically, they are: –IsEnabled –IsReadOnly –IsReadOnlyCaretVisible –IsUndoEnabled –AcceptsReturn –AcceptsTab –ScrollToEnd

(Mahesh Chand) A ComboBox control is a combination of a TextBox and a ListBox control. Only one list item is displayed at one time in a ComboBox and other available items are loaded in a drop down list.