Geoffrey Braaf Solving Performance Problems in an ASP.NET application with ANTS Profiler You have a Data-Access Layer that is generating dynamic SQL, and you haven't the time to understand the implementation of... 31 March 2009 6 min read
Andrew Hunter The Dangers of the Large Object Heap You'd have thought that memory leaks were a thing of the past now that we use .NET. True, but we... 19 March 2009 13 min read
Brian Harris What can Software Designers Learn from Video Games? Application Developers and designers often seem addicted to playing video games. Is this wasted time? Perhaps not, if they are... 05 March 2009 9 min read
.NET Ryan Garaygay in .NET Using a Profiler to Speed Application Performance Use a profiler to measure before you optimise. If ever you doubt this advice, then you should read this fascinating... 27 February 2009 4 min read
Gayani Devapriya Designing A Data Access Layer in LINQ to SQL Gayani provides the complete source code for a sample Data Access Layer for LINQ to SQL, using the Northwind Database,... 21 February 2009 13 min read
Chris Massey Has .NET Reflector Saved Your Bacon? We think Reflector is a fantastic tool, and we know you do too. We'd love to hear about the times... 28 January 2009 1 min read
Ben Hall Annotating Code with .NET Reflector and Review Add-In Ben Hall takes a look at a simple add-in to .NET Reflector that helps team development work in a number... 27 January 2009 6 min read
Ion Freeman Rendering Hierarchical Data with the Treeview It sometimes happens that Web Server controls that visualize data don't quite fit with the way that the data is... 05 January 2009 20 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna Some Data with your Application Take-away, Sir? Prasanna is reminded of pizza in cardboard boxes when he explores the possibilities of Synchronization Services for ADO.NET. Data applications... 09 December 2008 9 min read
Stephen Chambers Software that Crushes your Soul Stephen confesses his anger at Visio, which he is having to use all day, every day, in order to design... 05 December 2008 12 min read
Daniel Penrod Ext Framework, jQuery and ASP.NET If you are developing a browser-based application, or using Adobe AIR, then jQuery and Ext JS are prime choices for... 04 December 2008 10 min read
Jason Crease First Steps with .NET Reflector If you are new to using .NET Reflector, or you are wondering whether it would be useful to you, you'll... 17 November 2008 4 min read
Andrew Clarke .NET Reflector: Soup to Nuts .NET Reflector is almost an intrinsic part of the .NET Framework, a free tool for browsing the contents of a... 22 October 2008 15 min read
Chris Massey Mysteries of the NET Framework: The Challenge We're very aware that some of the brightest NET programmers want to use ANTS 4, but are on tight budgets.... 22 September 2008 4 min read
Stephen Chambers Software Tool Design: Remote User Testing If you are developing a software product, you'll know that the sooner you can get feedback from the users, the... 18 August 2008 13 min read
Stephen Chambers Software Tool Design: Design by Sketching Developers can get so used to relying on computers for everything that they can forget how useful it can be... 06 August 2008 12 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna Creating Service-Orientated Data-Access Layers The ADO.Net Data Services framework enables you to provide data services to Web applications that are simple to integrate with... 30 July 2008 13 min read
Heather Fielding Embedding Help so it will be used It is not good enough to make assumptions about the way that users go about getting help when they use... 17 July 2008 11 min read
Vladimir Bodurov Dynamically generating typed objects in .NET When you are binding Data to DataGrid in .NET, this has to be done at design-time. That's fine if you... 14 July 2008 17 min read
John Papa Data and Silverlight 2: Data Binding Silverlight 2 is far more versatile than Silverlight 1. It can handle data-sources with some subtlety. John Papa tackles the... 05 June 2008 12 min read
