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One task that is common in web applications is data collection. For example, you may need to create a survey page for collecting user inputs. On that page, you may want to collect a fair bit of information such as username, profile, and answers to survey questions (often used to collect subscriber information for controlled-circulation [...]

So far we have talked about, compared, and contrasted C#’s andJava’s syntax and input/output functionalities — this timearound we are going to talk about threading.

Open Source developer Miguel de Icaza, leader of the GNOME project and founder of Ximian, has been exploring Microsoft’s .NET platform with an open mind. When I interviewed him over a month ago, he told me that he was impressed with .NET. Then he was only beginning to think about the implications of [...]

Most Web Forms applications need to load multiple pieces of data, usually to load up comboboxes or listboxes. Many times we end up querying the database again and again for different lookup table data, and this [...]

The Case for Control AdaptersA fundamental tenet of programming is that you separate behavior that&#

In this excerpt from Programming Visual Basic for the Palm OS, learn how to design conduits using VB for the Palm OS.Conduit DesignThere are several major design principles for a conduit. The first, and most important, is that the conduit runs as quickly as possible. No one wants to wait while synchronization grinds on and [...]

In part one of a five-part series of book excerpts from VB.NET Core Classes in a Nutshell, learn what it’s like to develop without the .NET FCL library and its core classes.Chapter 1 IntroductionThe .NET Framework is Microsoft’s new computing platform that simplifiesthe design, development, and deployment of computer applications. Developedparticularly to facilitate the creation [...]

Microsoft has recently released Beta 1 of Internet Explorer 7 together with Windows Vista Beta 1. Note that Beta 1 of IE 7 comes in two flavors:

Editor’s note: Last week, in part one of this two-part excerpt from the ASP.NET Cookbook , authors Michael Kittel and Geoffrey LeBlond cooked up three recipes to make ASP.NET work for you. This week, they’re back in the kitchen with two more recipes: one to create a reusable handler that reads [...]