Microsoft has recently released the beta version of Silverlight. For those unfamiliar with what Silverlight is, it is essentially a plug-in technology to create web pages and web applications that loo
Developing software can quickly become a complicated process, with lists of funtions, procedures, loops, and repetitive code. Understanding theories of design patterns and implementing them, when necc
MySQL is a free database included with many web hosting services on linux and Windows platforms. C# ASP .NET developers, using a MySQL database back-end, may notice an unnecessarily large list of slee
If you’re creating a web application using C# ASP .NET, you will more than likely be using one of the three top database engines MySQL, MSSQL (Microsoft SQL Server), or Oracle to store your online dat
An RSS feed is really just a fancy term for an XML file, specifically used to re-distribute web content to aggregators. The most commonly used form of an RSS feed comes from blogs, which are constantl
One of the most common functions to perform in Active Directory from a desktop application or C# ASP .NET application is resetting user passwords. Due to the security features of Windows, resetting a
Recently, an error occured on a PC with both Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 installed, where new forms could no longer be added to a web project and new projects could not longer be cr
C# ASP .NET is one of the first programming platforms which provides a vast array of easy-to-use libraries for accessing the Internet, download files and web pages, and manipulating the Internet strea
When designing a large C# ASP .NET web application, containing hundreds or thousands of dynamically generated pages, a common after thought is how the search engine robots will handle your site. Often
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