Andrew Clarke The Waffle Generator Sometimes, silly programs have a less obvious useful purpose. Andrew Clarke takes his classic 'Waffle Generator', and provides it in... 16 January 2008 10 min read
Daniel Penrod Using WebServices with ASP.NET Webservices without tears? Popup maps in your websites? Word-completion? Ajax-based Search-engines? No problems, with Daniel's sample application to guide you.… 14 December 2007 16 min read
Tilman Bregler Extending MSBuild Because MSbuild underpins the Visual Studio 'build' process, you can use MSBuild to explore and extend the build process to... 06 December 2007 15 min read
William Brewer Top HAT If there is one thing that developers and users always seem to disagree on, it is the relative importance of... 13 November 2007 19 min read
James Moore Make sure your .NET applications perform Improving the performance of your application often boils down to rephrasing the problem you are trying to solve. James discusses... 30 October 2007 12 min read
James Moore Integrating with WMI James shows how to add a simple WMI provider to a service so that you can monitor it, and make... 17 October 2007 8 min read
Jonas Stawski Take Row-Level Control of Your GridView The ASP.NET GridView is great for very simple tables, but the real world is not always as straightforward as we... 27 September 2007 10 min read
Ron Dameron Comparing Python and PowerShell DBA Scripting Just when it seemed that there were were no adequate scripting systems for DBAs that could access .NET, along came... 03 August 2007 11 min read
John Papa .NET 3.5 Language Enhancements LINQ may be getting the most attention in the forthcoming .NET 3.5, but there are also several new language features... 25 July 2007 12 min read
Gaidar Magdanurov Implementing Waiting Pages in ASP.NET The users of your application will be more likely to tolerate pauses in your application whilst processing goes on, if... 16 July 2007 17 min read
Dan Wahlin ASP.NET Master Pages Tips and Tricks Take a look at how you can increase productivity and reduce maintenance with your ASP.NET 2.0 website, as Dan Wahlin... 14 June 2007 13 min read
Francis Norton Implementing Real-World Data Input Validation using Regular Expressions Francis Norton shows how to use regular expressions to fulfil some real world data validation requirements, demonstrating techniques ranging from... 14 May 2007 12 min read
John Papa Gathering RSS Feeds using Visual Studio and RSS.NET If you would like to learn how to build and customize your very own Windows service to retrieve posts from... 04 May 2007 13 min read
Dan Wahlin Enhance your Website with ASP.NET AJAX Extensions Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX Extensions provide developers with a quick and simple way to add AJAX functionality into any ASP.NET Website.... 01 May 2007 20 min read
Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz Getting Started with XAML See for yourself the flexibility of XAML, as Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz show you how to create an interactive... 16 March 2007 12 min read
Steven R. McCabe Exploring LINQ, SQLMetal and SqlTac If you're a .NET developer, working with or without a database on the back-end, your world is about to change.... 15 March 2007 23 min read
Gaidar Magdanurov A Complete URL Rewriting Solution for ASP.NET 2.0 Ever wondered whether it's possible to create neater URLS, free of bulky Query String parameters? Gaidar Magdanurov shows you how... 01 March 2007 16 min read
Jeff Hewitt Building Active Directory Wrappers in .NET The ability to authenticate .NET application users against Active Directory is a common requirement. Here, Jeff Hewitt demonstrates how to... 09 February 2007 18 min read
Jesse Liberty Controls Based Security in a Windows Forms Application Jesse Liberty demonstrates a role-based security architecture for Windows Forms applications that will allow you to restrict access to any... 22 January 2007 24 min read
Damon Armstrong Regular Expression Based Token Replacement in ASP.NET Damon Armstrong presents an extremely powerful and flexible token replacement mechanism for your ASP.NET applications. It is based on regular... 10 January 2007 23 min read
