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Amirthalingam Prasanna Creating Service-Orientated Data-Access Layers
by Amirthalingam Prasanna | 30 July 2008 |
The ADO.Net Data Services framework enables you to provide data services to Web applications that are simple to integrate with them. The data services use URIs to point to pieces of data, and use standards such as JSON and XML to transfer that data. ADO.NET Data... Read more...
Heather Fielding Embedding Help so it will be used
by Heather Fielding | 17 July 2008 |  5 comments |
It is not good enough to make assumptions about the way that users go about getting help when they use your application. Heather Fielding describes how she was able to test the effectiveness of various different ways of providing embedded help in an application. By... Read more...
Vladimir Bodurov Dynamically generating typed objects in .NET
by Vladimir Bodurov | 14 July 2008 |  7 comments |
When you are binding Data to DataGrid in .NET, this has to be done at design-time. That's fine if you know what the form of the data is at design time: but what if you don't? Vlad Bodurov looks at some of the options and demonstrates an unusual dynamic technique... Read more...
John Papa Data and Silverlight 2: Data Binding
by John Papa | 05 June 2008 |  1 comment |
Silverlight 2 is far more versatile than Silverlight 1. It can handle data-sources with some subtlety. John Papa tackles the whole subject of data-binding with Silverlight. This article is a partial excerpt from John Papa's upcoming book Data Access with Silverlight... Read more...
Amirthalingam Prasanna Entity Framework: The Cribsheet
by Amirthalingam Prasanna | 26 May 2008 |  13 comments |
Prasanna Amirthalingam provides an overview of Entity Framework and how it can be used. He shows that it can provide an excellent interface between the Object-oriented model and the relational. The Entity Framework allows developers to work with data in the form... Read more...
Dan Archer Sid: Vicious
by Dan Archer | 22 April 2008 |  2 comments |
Dan Archer documents his epic struggle with an apparently simple task of authenticating user credentials. For some reason, a task that should be performed by a simple API call leads to a great deal of head-scratching and googling. Read more...
Amirthalingam Prasanna .NET Collection Management with C# 3.0
by Amirthalingam Prasanna | 25 February 2008 |  17 comments |
Generics in C#, enable you to define classes, interfaces, delegates or methods with placeholders for parameterized types used within. This allows you to define classes that use a generic type, and define the type at the time of instantiation or method calls. This... Read more...
John Bower Silverlight Skinnable User Interfaces
by John Bower | 05 February 2008 |  2 comments |
John Bower demonstrates more of the features of Silverlight, and Expression Blend, and shows how one might write an application that avoids UI pitfalls by placing your design responsibility squarely on your users’ shoulders. If it looks bad, it’s their fault! Read more...
Steven R. McCabe Taking Exceptions
by Steven R. McCabe | 19 January 2008 |  7 comments |
Steve looks at the requirements that are usually in force for the support of a team-based 'production System' and suggests a way that exception-handling in C# can be used to provide robust error reporting Read more...
John Bower Silverlight-Speed Loop
by John Bower | 18 January 2008 |  3 comments |
John Bower steps up a gear, produces a Lamborghini, and examines the process of using a high-speed function loop to create a fast-paced Silverlight application. Read more...
John Bower Let there be Silverlight
by John Bower | 05 January 2008 |  9 comments |
John Bower stays calm, and so will you, whilst guiding you to producing your first Silverlight application. It may just be 'Hello World' but soon... Read more...
James Moore Integrating with WMI
by James Moore | 17 October 2007 |  6 comments |
James shows how to add a simple WMI provider to a service so that you can monitor it, and make changes to it, remotely across the network Read more...
John Papa .NET 3.5 Language Enhancements
by John Papa | 25 July 2007 |  53 comments |
LINQ may be getting the most attention in the forthcoming .NET 3.5, but there are also several new language features that add functionality and make life easier for the programmer. John Papa explains more... Read more...
Francis Norton Implementing Real-World Data Input Validation using Regular Expressions
by Francis Norton | 14 May 2007 |  11 comments |
Francis Norton shows how to use regular expressions to fulfil some real world data validation requirements, demonstrating techniques ranging from simple number format checks, to complex string validation that requires use of regex's powerful "lookahead" feature. Read more...
Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz Getting Started with XAML
by Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz | 16 March 2007 |  3 comments |
See for yourself the flexibility of XAML, as Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz show you how to create an interactive Windows application declaratively, in .NET 3.0. Read more...
Jeff Hewitt Building Active Directory Wrappers in .NET
by Jeff Hewitt | 09 February 2007 |  13 comments |
The ability to authenticate .NET application users against Active Directory is a common requirement. Here, Jeff Hewitt demonstrates how to build wrapper classes in Visual Basic that can convert AD data types into ones that can be used in a .NET application. Read more...
Damon Armstrong .NET Application Architecture: Logging SQL Exceptions in the Data Access Layer
by Damon Armstrong | 11 September 2006 |  8 comments |
Damon Armstrong demonstrates an efficient way to capture and manage SQL exceptions in your .NET application, by adding a SQL logger to your data access layer. Read more...
Julian Skinner Asynchronous Processing in .NET Part 2
by Julian Skinner | 18 August 2006 |  10 comments |
Julian Skinner presents an in-depth tutorial on thread synchronization in .NET, covering the most important Synchronization objects and including a full worked example. Read more...
Damon Armstrong .NET Application Architecture: the Data Access Layer
by Damon Armstrong | 11 July 2006 |  156 comments |
Find out how to design a robust data access layer for your .NET applications. Read more...
Phil Wilson Simple COM server registration
by Phil Wilson | 09 March 2006 |  2 comments |
Looking at COM activation context on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Working with manifest files and XML. Exposing .NET COM class libraries using interop. Read more...
Amirthalingam Prasanna .NET Collection Management
by Amirthalingam Prasanna | 08 December 2005 |  22 comments |
This article focuses on managing a collection of objects using generics, an important addition to the .NET Framework 2.0, and examines the capabilities provided by the generic list. Read more...
Amirthalingam Prasanna ADO.NET 2.0 Factory Classes
by Amirthalingam Prasanna | 25 October 2005 |  17 comments |
This article explains how to use .NET 2.0’s data provider factory classes to develop a pluggable data layer that is independent of database type and ADO.NET data provider. Read more...
Steve Joubert Does your app need an independent data layer?
by Steve Joubert | 03 October 2005 |  8 comments |
This article looks at the benefits and drawbacks of building an independent data layer into your application. Read more...
Steve Joubert Data Synchronization
by Steve Joubert | 01 October 2005 |  9 comments |
Making your smart client application work in a disconnected environment - considering data loading and return synchronization. Read more...
Amirthalingam Prasanna Custom Events in VB.NET 2005
by Amirthalingam Prasanna | 26 September 2005 |  27 comments |
Visual Basic .NET is well known for its event-driven programming capabilities. VB.NET 2005 adds new functionality for custom events that provides flexibility in handling and controlling events. Read more...
Amirthalingam Prasanna Schema and metadata retrieval using ADO.NET
by Amirthalingam Prasanna | 02 August 2005 |  7 comments |
How to obtain different types of information from your SQL Server 2000 database using ADO.NET 2.0, part of VS.NET 2005 and .NET 2.0. Read more...
Amirthalingam Prasanna Using partial classes to make intelligent datasets
by Amirthalingam Prasanna | 13 July 2005 |  3 comments |
This article looks at how partial classes can be used to implement business logic into datasets so that they are more business aware and intelligent. Read more...
Amirthalingam Prasanna .NET 2.0 transaction model
by Amirthalingam Prasanna | 22 June 2005 |  28 comments |
.NET 2.0 introduces a new System.Transactions namespace that brings in a lightweight, simplified transaction model. Read more...
Douglas Reilly Should you use ADO.NET DataReader or DataSet?
by Douglas Reilly | 10 June 2005 |  24 comments |
In the beginning, there was the recordset, a central feature of classic ADO. In ADO.NET it was gone. Read more...
Amirthalingam Prasanna Visual Basic.NET 2005
by Amirthalingam Prasanna | 06 May 2005 |  5 comments |
Discover some of the new features in Visual Basic.NET 2005 such as partial classes, generics, operator overloading and using block Read more...
Neil Davidson Extending the save file dialog class in .NET
by Neil Davidson | 25 August 2004 |
The jigsaw with the missing piece - using the GetSaveFileName function to extend the Save File dialog class. Read more...
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