(Rod Stephens) The first thing a user sees of an application is its splash screen. As the adage says, “You only get one chance to make a first impression,” so it’s important that your splash screen represent your application appropriately. Though the user only gets one first impression of your appli

(Craig Mullins) I sometimes enjoy reading through the annual reports of companies like IBM (that is, companies whose products I use “on the job”), so I thought maybe readers of my blog might enjoy that, too. With that in mind, IBM’s annual report for 2006 is now up and available online.

(10Tec and Serge Gorbenko) Since Visual Studio .NET was first released, it has been possible to document your classes directly in code and define the standard documentation sections (such as the summary, remarks, parameter descriptions, etc) which contain the standard tags (such as the member refe

(Gaidar Magdanurov) It is very easy to use ASP.NET controls on a web form. You may drop a control on a form in the Visual Studio designer or type in markup code for a control manually. After that you may reference a control by its ID.

(Edmond Woychowsky) Unless you’ve been devoting all of your time to watching the Firefly box set and the movie Serenity that you got over the holidays and comparing family members’ opening their gifts to Reavers sacking a town, you might have heard that XSLT 2.0 is now a recommendation of the World

(Bill Hamilton) Notification Services is a programming framework based on XML and T-SQL. It is used to create applications that generate and send messages to subscribers. Notifications can be sent according to a schedule, or in response to conditions or events. Notifications can be sent using built-

(Gaidar Magdanurov) This article describes a complete solution for URL rewriting in ASP.NET 2.0. The solution uses regular expressions to specify rewriting rules and resolves possible difficulties with postback from pages accessed via virtual URLs.

(Roger E. Sanders) This tutorial introduces you to DB2 Call-Level Interface (CLI)/ODBC programming and walks you through the basic steps used to construct a CLI/ODBC application. This tutorial also introduces you to the process used to convert one or more high-level programming language source code

(Mike Ammerlaan) Ok, so now that this blog is going, now for a common topic I’ve been asked a bit about recently. How does Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX integrate with SharePoint? Here are some notes I’ve collected on this.

(Matthew Hart and Robert Freeman) RMAN actually works pretty well right out of the box, and you generally will find that it requires very little tuning. However, there are a number of other pieces that fit into the RMAN architectural puzzle. When all those pieces come together, you sometimes find th