A digital clock user control which can be used as a regular clock, stop watch or count down timer. Options include changing display color, freezing the clock and setting multiple alarms.

This article discusses the advantages of building HTML controls on the server side for AJAX calls and proposes an extensible factory pattern. Also different approaches for handling these custom calls using modules, handlers and ASPX pages and the leverage provided by ASP.NET libraries are discussed.

The article explores a solution to maintain formatting when using HTML TABLE rows inside ItemTemplate tag for a GridView or a DataList.

IIS rejects files with unknown type and ISP providers may not have updated their servers with the XAML MIME type. Article suggests a work around to host XAML files.

This article gives a simple architecture of using StreamReaders and DataSets together to read data from arbitrarily formatted flat files into DataSets, using ini files as an example

This useful tool demonstrates the power of SQL DMO to generate scripts for tables, stored procedures and other database objects, and how to integrate with Visual SourceSafe using automation.

Tool to generate script for Linked Servers in SQL Server 2000, using C# and SQLDMO.

This article discusses scenarios where we have to take care of an object's life time and cannot rely on JIT's marking of objects for garbage collection.

This tutorial explains how to configure Visual Studio .NET projects when working with COM components whose binary compatibility is broken but the library name and method signatures are retained.

Building good looking Splash Windows on application startup and About boxes with special effects

The article discusses a strategy to securely configure and administer a set of connection strings which can be maintained environment wise. It also talks about distributing this information securely in a huge environment to be used by authorized clients only.

Creating a semaphore to limit a given number of threads accessing a resource in a process.

A tutorial describing how to query Windows Active Directory to retrieve different objects using classes defined under .NET DirectoryServices namespace and LDAP queries

This article presents the design and a readily usable component for scheduling events which are consumed inside a server or service application.