All Articles

This article discusses static and shared members, and how being static impacts the thread safety and performance of a member.

In this article, we will discuss application domains in .NET, and how they impact your ASP.NET execution and deployments.

An RDBMS uses a view to create a virtual table. The careful use of views can improve the interaction between a .NET application and the underlying data. In this article we will discuss views in Microsoft SQL Server, including best practices for creating and using views.

What you need to know before designing the logging functionality of your next ASP.NET application.

The .NET platform depends on metadata at design time, compile time, and execution time. This article will cover some theory of metadata, and demonstrate how to examine metadata at runtime using reflection against ASP.NET web controls.

If you are looking for someone to host your ASP.NET web application, this article will give you some advice on how to match up your project with a suitable web hosting provider.

This article will demonstrate some techniques beyond simple DataBinder.Eval calls in ASP.NET data binding expressions.

The article will demonstrate how to view roles in the server and database, and how to grant and deny permissions to database objects and statements.

This article will examine how to manage authentication with MSDE and the free SQL Web Data Administrator from Microsoft.

There is no built in validation control to handle phone numbers with an optional extension. This article will show you how.

This article demonstrates the validation controls of ASP.NET, and how to use them effectively in an ASP.NET application.

Jagged arrays, also known as arrays of arrays, offer not only a space savings in certain conditions, but also a performance enhancement.

Building Websites with the Community Starter Kit is a comprehensive guide to understanding, implementing, and extending the powerful and freely available application from Microsoft. In this sample chapter we will demonstrate how to build a new module for from the ground up.

This article covers Tracing in an ASP.Net application. It covers both page level tracing and application level tracing.

This article looks at general guidelines to creating effective indexes using short keys, distinct keys, covering indexes and clustered indexes.

This article will demonstrate how to add a DropDownList control to each row of an ASP.Net DataGrid, including the header row. The article demonstrates how to perform data binding on each DropDownList control, and how to handle events when the DropDownList selection changes.

Change Asp.Net datagrid row and cell attributes based on data. This article uses the ItemDataBound event handler to modify the datagrid attributes, style and values.

Although the ASP.NET Calendar control does not offer a data binding feature, you can customize the content and style of a calendar control using the DayRender event. In this article we combine a Calendar control and a DataGrid control to display a calendar of events.

Create a dynamic ASP.Net datagrid control and columns using c# code. This example demonstrates how to generate a datagrid control and datagrid columns on the fly in the code behind file based on the results of a SQL Query

Using the SQL Reporting Services Web Service API requires authentication and authorization. Getting all your credentials setup to make this work can be a challenge - this article is here to help you get started.