Learn how to obtain an outside application's window handle, in order to manipulate that window from inside your program, using either VB.NET or C#. Read More >

Learn how to use ASP.NET API attribute to fine tune CORS at the global level, controller level or individual action level.  Read More >

The .NET framework 4.5 introduces some new classes in System.IO.Compression namespace that allows you to deal with Zip files programmatically. Using these classes you can create new Zip files, open and modify existing Zip files and extract the contents of Zip files via code. This article examines some of these classes. Read More >

SOLID principles form the base for writing good and clean object oriented code in C#. Learn about the S.O.L.I.D principles and explore C# coding samples for each. Read More >

Hannes du Preez shares a quick and dirty introduction to performance counters in both VB.NET and C#. Read More >

Although single dimensional arrays are most commonly used in C#, other varieties such as multidimensional arrays and jagged arrays are also available to C# developers. Additionally, the Array class comes in handy when it comes to sorting or searching an array.  Read More >

Arun Karthick explains Inversion of Control (IoC) in programming models and take you through some C# code examples to implement it.  Read More >

Bipin Joshi shows you how to use C# preprocessor directives to instruct the C# compiler to alter the compilation process in some way. For example you may instruct the C# compiler that a particular block of code be excluded from the compilation process.  Read More >

Sometimes it is necessary to prevent your monitor from going asleep while your program is active. Join Hannes du Preez as he shows you how to create a small program to prevent the monitor from going to sleep or the screensaver from popping up. Read More >

Hannes du Preez demonstrates how to print a Microsoft Access 2010 report from within your C# or VB.NET program. Read More >

To deal with the complexity involved in asynchronous programming, Windows Store apps make use of what is known as a Promise. At code level a promise is an object that represents the result of an asynchronous operation and returns a value at some future point in time. This article discusses what Promises are and also shows how to use them in a Windows Store app. Read More >

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SimpleMembership extends the ASP.NET core membership and role providers in such a way that you can use a custom database table to store user information. Bipin Joshi gives you step by step instructions to configure and use the SimpleMembership in ASP.NET MVC projects. Read More >

Join Hannes du Preez as he tackles the popular topic of how to create an application similar to Windows Explorer. Read More >

Cross-domain requests in Windows store apps can be done using the WinJS.xhr() function. Bipin Joshi introduces you to the xhr() function and many of its configuration options, and illustrates how the xhr() function can be used to call ASP.NET Web API. Read More >

Bipin Joshi shows you the basics of using SignalR, a library that allows you to perform real-time communication in web applications easily, in an ASP.NET web forms application.  Read More >

The question has been asked whether or not it was possible to have a textbox that can be automatically filled in with the previous URL history, similar to what can be found in any decent web browser. And the answer is... Read More >

Building Windows Store apps may seem easy on the surface but there are many gotchas you should watch out for. Chris Bennett shares 10 tips to help you improve your app and reduce the chance of running into approval issues. Read More >

The past six articles in this series have looked at how to display a grid of data in an ASP.NET MVC application and how to implement features like sorting, paging, and filtering. In each of these past six tutorials we were responsible... Read More >

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a popular file format for documents. Due to their ubiquity and layout capabilities, it's not uncommon for a websites to use PDF technology. For example, an eCommerce store may offer a "printable receipt"... Read More >

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a popular file format for documents. PDF files are a popular document format for two primary reasons: first, because the PDF standard is an open standard, there are many vendors that provide PDF readers across... Read More >

Chances are, at some point you've tried creating a new user account on a website and were told that the username you selected was already taken. This is especially common on very large websites with millions of members, but can happen on smaller websites with common usernames, such as people's names...Read More >

When a browser displays the HTML sent from a web server it parses the received markup into a Document Object Model, or DOM, which models the markup as a hierarchical structure. Each element in the markup - the <form> element, <div> elements, <p>...Read More >

Over the past couple of months I've authored five articles on displaying a grid of data in an ASP.NET MVC application. The first article in the series focused on simply displaying data...Read More >

Many websites display a news ticker of one sort or another. A news ticker is a user interface element that displays a subset of a list of items, cycling through them one at a time after a set interval. In December 2010 I wrote an article titled Use jQuery and ASP.NET to Build a News Ticker...Read More >