Master pages is a new concept in ASP.NET 2.0, which allows site developers to build master templates for their site's look and feel and put all common code which is shared by all the pages.

The preview version of the next version of Visual Studio 2003 is called Visual Studio codename Whidbey. Visual Studio Whidbey has a support for building applications for Windows codename Longhorn, ...

VSTO2005 has been a great relief to .NET office developers as a result of its enhanced features. It’s been a long time desire for office programmers to have something which would provide them an in...

This project is done using ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005. This application covers all the basic aspects a developer needs.

The current article shows a couple of different views of showing progress bars in Web based applications.

In this article I will demonstrate how to incorporate installer classes with your Visual Studio .NET msi's to handle any supporting tasks that your assemblies may need.

Microsoft provides a host of project template wizards for creating your initial projects.

Visual Studio contains several built-in intellisense code snippets. Snippets are like templates and can be described completely in XML. If you understand the snippet xml schema, you can easily begi...

One of the coolest feature in Visual Studio 2005 I like is quick access to all active Windows and Files and switing control between them.

Visual Studio 2005 IDE brings you many new and updated features and Project Properties dialog is one of the areas where you will see some new additions. In this article, I will discuss Accessibilit...

This article gives you a glimpse of new features of Visual Studio 2005. In this article, you will see the power of Visual Studio and how easy it is to build Web sites using new controls without eve...

Refactoring allows developers to use the built-in feature of Visual Studio to rename and convert and change the signatures and definitions of a class members. In this article, I will show you how r...

In this article of Learning Visual Studio 2005 IDE series, I will explore some of the designer features and the breakdown of the classes of a Windows Forms project.

This step by step tutorial guides you to create your database applications using OleDb Data Adapters in VS.NET.

This tutorial guides you towards your first C# Empty project step by step. After that I'll show you how to add a class to the project and few members to the class and call this class members from t...

This article shows how to to migrate your solution from VS 2003 to VS 2005.

This is the overview of .NET Integrated Language Query for XML. This Article explains some of the features of XLINQ with example.

There are some problems with the behavior of the current beta version of the MaskedTextBox when you are using currency. This article will show you how to overcome this behavior with an overriding ...

We all have seen Document Outline feature in Visual Studio 2003, which allows ASP.NET developers to select a control on a Web Form and in code editor, it would select the code respective to that co...

Windows Forms 1.0 lacked a Web Browser control. The work around was to use IE ActiveX control using COM Interop. Now Windows Forms 2.0 provides a Web Browser control, which is a managed wrapper of ...