I'll show you how to put these practical, business-oriented features to use in a real-word scenario. This article's sample is an n-tier business application with a couple of related business objects ...

Windows Vista introduces a slick new UI feature Microsoft calls Windows Gadgets. Gadgets are small, lightweight applications that run in a special pane called the Sidebar or directly from the user's ...

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One of SharePoint Portal Server's selling points is that it provides broad customization at all levels, from a corporation's home page down to a single user's personal page. Without having to write ...

Benefits of Web-based apps include a lower cost of ownership due to central deployment and maintenance, as well as client/operating system independence. At the same time, Web interfaces are becoming ...

Transforming a dataset into one with fewer columns is more complicated than it might seem, explains Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research in this full-code, step-by-step machine learning tutorial.

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Security is an important consideration when building any ASP.NET application, not least because these apps typically interface with the Internet and all of its inherent dangers while managing vital ...

.NET makes threading easy, especially compared to implementing threading in either VB6 or C++. But threading in .NET doesn't require that you use a structured implementation, which can lead to ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on an implementation of the technique that emphasizes simplicity and ease-of-modification over robustness and ...

Suppose a salesperson on the other side of the world says he needs your enterprise application to support another culture by tomorrow morning so he can demonstrate it to prospective customers in a ...

You can use various techniques for working with user controls in .NET that involve complex and time-intensive rendering. The primary one I present gives you the capability to pass a user control from ...