(Tim Stall) Many large Web applications in existence make use of User Controls, which are a unit of user interface reuse in ASP.NET. Common UI pieces – such as menus, page headers or footers, and so on – can be easily encapsulated into a User Control for reuse on numerous other pages. In their s

(Jack Vaughn) Web services could give new life to old-fashioned “screen scraping” styles of client-to-mainframe integration, according to an enterprise apps consultant speaking at last week’s SD 2004 Best Practices event.

(Tony Marston) With every programming language I have worked in it has become normal practice, after having developed an initial series of programs, to identify a common structure to which all subsequent programs should be built. This may take some time as it involves a bit of trial and error in pla

(Jon Shemitz) When you write .NET code that takes callback parameters, your first instinct may be to use delegates, but it may not occur to you that you can use an interface instead. Learn why and when an interface may be a better answer.

(Saravana Kumar) The next release of .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio .NET platform code-named Whidbey brings a series of new enhancements and altogether new advancements to all areas of .NET framework and visual studio. With its enhancements, it also paves the path to next generation Micros

When you call an extended stored procedure that raises an error that has a low severity of less than 10 from a Microsoft .NET Framework Web application, you may receive one of the following exception error messages: Error message 1 A severe error occurred on the current command. The results, if

(Don Kiely) By default, all ASP.NET applications run with full trust. But “full trust” essentially tells the Common Language Runtime (CLR), “Trust this code. Don’t check for permissions. Even if the code tells you to turn off security features that you normally use to maintain tight protection again

(Scott) Data binding expressions in ASP.NET are the small snippets of code you see between characters in an ASPX file. We normally see these expressions in a Repeater’s ItemTemplate declarations, and in a DataGrid’s TemplateColumn markup. Also, Data binding expressions often contain a ca

(Sean Hull) When it comes to Web development these days, you have a lot of options. Many of these methods involve preprocessing—that is, embedding code into HTML pages with special tags that signal to a preprocessor that they contain code, and that it should do something with it. Much like a CGI, th

(Saravana Kumar) The next release of .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio .NET platform code-named Whidbey brings a series of new enhancements and altogether new advancements to all areas of .NET framework and visual studio. With its enhancements, it also paves the path to next generation Microsoft