Most web applications need to display lists of different sorts of data. The most commonly used web control to display lists is the GridView control. The default implementation of the GridView is to use any kind of DatSource to retrieve the whole result set that will be displayed from the database, and then display only …
Depending on your business needs, you may wish to integrate between different systems. For example, integration is necessary when an organization has two different systems that do two different jobs but have a common area between them. Say an organization has a system that does Loan Application Origination and another system that does Loan Servicing. …
In a previous post, I talked about a basic operation that you can do against a collection of objects with LINQ queries. Well, the operations that you can do with LINQ queries extend beyond a simple query or filter on a specific field in your collection. You can do aggregate operations by using LINQ queries. …
Microsoft recently released the results from their Mission Critical Applications study. This study consisted of a survey conducted by a third party (not Microsoft) called IDC. According to Microsoft, the objective of the study was to assess: What types of mission critical application platforms are in use (Email and database were excluded from study to …
A friend of mine recently asked me a question that was challenging to answer. The question was, “What’s the easiest way to write a .Net code (algorithm) that generates all possible combinations of 3 characters together, considering the valid characters are from A to Z or any symbols?” Before we go any further, you may …
Using the available tools/add-ins for Visual Studio® .NET will help you deliver good code quality in less time. I am going to introduce some of the best tools that I use every day, and give a quick tutorial on how to use each of them. Having the right tools can make a big difference in …
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is part of the .NET Framework. It provides a unified programming model for rapidly building service-oriented applications which communicate across the web and the enterprise. Among other things, it can be used to create a secure service for processing business transactions. WCF is a flexible platform. It simplifies application development because …
When you work with enterprise projects, you will almost always be dealing with a database. Considering this, it is essential to save the data in the most effective way possible. This means starting by choosing the appropriate data type and ending by saving the data appropriately. For example, if you want to save the date, …
One of my colleagues recently asked me, “How can I tell if an IP address is within a specific IP Range?” This question seemed to have an easy answer at first. But after taking a deeper look, I found that there are many possibilities to consider when determining if an IP is within a certain …