Dynamic query building is most often used in the enterprise world for search screens and other operations. I remember writing code very tediously night and day for a very big search screen. Those d…

I wrote this demo because I observed that lots of people in the forum (forums.asp.net) always ask questions on how to display Image that was stored in the database to GridView control.

This example demonstrates how to upload image using the FileUpload control and store the uploaded file in the database in binary format.

When we started WCFing in my current project, the first challenge that we had was to get the WCF Services to impersonate the callers, I had burned a lot of mid night oil trying to figure out the ri…

At MIX 2009, the Expression Blend team cam up with a new concept called Behaviors. In fact, the only thing new is the way that the Behaviors are packed. WPF developers have been doing what we calle…

While chatting with Tim Ewald last week at Devweek we got onto the topic of “ways to improve the MSDN experience” (Tim sits in that team). Part of that discussion was the “Low Bandwith” option for …

This example demonstrates how to show the Header and Footer of GridView when no data returned from the DataSet or DataTable.

1) XNA - great free tool for game developers

Short while after I wrote about resources for multi-touch on Windows …

This post will explain how to do fading (fade out a layer) in Gimp.

I was working on a SSIS Data Flow Task by passing Package Variables into a Stored Procedure. I will be using [AdventureWorks] sample database included with the SQL Server installation. Below is the…

- Part 1 – Language and Framework Usage - Part 2 – Visual Basic 6.0 Usage Today (This one!) - Part 3 – Move from Visual Basic 6.0 to .NET

This is part 2 of a two posts series about the property IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem. In the previous post, we saw what it does in Windows Presentation Foundation. In this post, we will see that t…

In January we created a survey to understand how folks were using Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic .NET in the UK. This survey was sent out to individuals we “suspected” had Visual Basic 6.0 herit…

Yesterday I was doing an upgrade to a product and I needed to install it into the path where the old version used to be. I only needed to figure out what install option I need.

- Part 1 – Language and Framework Usage - Part 2 – Visual Basic 6.0 Usage Today - Part 3 – Move from Visual Basic 6.0 to .NET (This one!)

After a long long struggle finally me and my team was able to run the Analysis Services reports on SQL Server 2008. We had a big trouble while installing the Analysis Extensions of MS Dynamics 2009…

imageI wanted an eReader of some kind. I knew that. This is a cool technology. First off, no matter if you get an Amazon Kindle or a Sony eReader, then you are in for a definite treat. This is one …

I heard someone say, "backwards-engineer a solution" on a conference call today. I think he meant, "reverse-engineer," but it got me thinking about when we pass "backwards-engieneering" off as "for…

The journey started seven months ago when I was asked by Wrox if I was interested or if I knew someone that was interested in writing the new DotNetNuke5 book. At that time, I put together an all F…