By DevProConnections Editors, 10/30/2009
By DevProConnections Editors, 09/17/2009
There's been a lot of hubbub lately about a supposed SQL Server security flaw. Normally, that would really get my attention. Instead, the more I hear about this so-called flaw, ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 08/06/2009
A very common configuration problem is failure to correctly configure SQL Server to be able to take advantage of more than 2GB of physical memory. I've written before about SQL ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 07/16/2009
Internet Explorer (IE) 6 is old, it's beastly to maintain, and has around 20% of the browser market. When it's time for a change will users move to IE 8, Firefox, Safari or ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 06/30/2009
Some groups within Microsoft do “get” the web and search. To prove that, the IIS Team recently released the IIS SEO Toolkit. If you haven't already heard of it, it's a simple yet ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 06/30/2009
As a developer working with Office, working directly with documents in your managed code can save you boat loads of time. It also opens the door for creating many types of ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 06/30/2009
As a developer working with Office, working directly with documents in your managed code can save you boat loads of time. It also opens the door for creating many types of ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 06/30/2009
As a developer working with Office, working directly with documents in your managed code can save you boat loads of time. It also opens the door for creating many types of ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 06/30/2009
As a developer working with Office, working directly with documents in your managed code can save you boat loads of time. It also opens the door for creating many types of ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 06/18/2009
Need some ideas on how to make sure you're getting the best consultants for your needs? I have a few ideas to add to my article earlier this year on the same topic. Because you ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 06/04/2009
As web developers, we've enjoyed a season of relative prosperity during the last 10 years while there have been no significant changes to the HTML 4.01 specification. But what ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 05/21/2009
Microsoft has just released a public beta of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework (FX) 4.0. Sadly, as with most new releases, there are entirely too many improvements, changes, ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 05/07/2009
As developers, we spend a lot of time working on the ins and outs of software. But hardware plays a huge role in our lives, and it can make a difference in both the quality and ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 04/16/2009
Recently I described requirement gathering problems I encountered and the negative impact they had on project delivery. I asked for your feedback and said that I'd do a follow-up ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 04/02/2009
It's no secret that successful IT and development projects require careful planning and requirements gathering. But striking the balance of whom to gather those requirements from ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 03/19/2009
As part of Scott Guthrie's keynote March 18th at Mix 2009, Microsoft announced the final release of ASP.NET Model View Controller( MVC). If you haven't had a chance to look at it ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 03/05/2009
ASP.NET MVC has been obviously touted as being search engine optimization (SEO ) friendly by easily enabling the use of pretty urls within web sites. In this briefing I'll also ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 02/19/2009
In my recent development project, I took advantage of two approaches that let me write literally thousands of fewer lines of code and save a ton of development time by taking a ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 02/05/2009
Development can be a dicey endeavor. Take, for example, recent problems with Google's integration of AJAX functionality into search, and it becomes obvious that the union of two ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 01/15/2009
If you're like most developers, you've probably heard about the ASP.NET ReportViewer control. It's been around awhile: It shipped with Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0. ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 12/18/2008
ASP.NET's intrinsic cache functionality has long been one of my favorite aspects of ASP.NET. With a little bit of planning and organization, you can use it to create highly ...
By DevProConnections Editors, 12/08/2008
This article walks through the network/WAN monitoring application that I wrote and illustrates several useful .NET Framework classes—some of which can be useful when writing an ...