Category: .NET

When Microsoft introduced the SqlDataSource, they made it very easy to add database connectivity to your ASP.NET pages with a minimum of programming. The SqlDataSource (and the related AccessDataSource) allow you to define database connections declaratively - that is, …

ASP.NET’s DataList control lets you display a list of data, but also lets you edit the entries in this list (unlike the Repeater control, for example). One thing it won’t let you do, however, is to add a new …

When programming an ASP.NET application, it’s very simple to use the built-in Button and LinkButton controls to perform actions like adding a record to a database or saving changes. When you create one of these buttons, the HTML looks …

The .NET framework, and especially version 2.0, has made life a lot easier for programmers. In that past it wasn’t especially easy to create multi-threaded programs, but now it’s really pretty simple.

I have a program that downloads data from …

Handling date and time is tough, and the .NET Framework has more than a few quirks in this area. I have just run into one of the more painful ones, and I think I have found a simple way …