Thursday, May 23, 2002

Wow! Chris Sells has started a WinForms column on MSDN!!! Truly stand-alone applications are a dying breed. Users want the combination of the best of Web applications and the best of the UI conventions supported by their operating system. Web services, which provide only functionality and not UI, when married with Windows Forms clients to handle the UI and session state, are the perfect hybrid for your .NET-enabled users. Article. May 23, 2002. 9:00:21 AM

There are many real-world situations in which you may wish to read part of or an entire text file into a string variable in a Web page. To read a text file in classic ASP you would simply use the FileSystemObject. While you can use the FileSystemObject in an ASP.NET Web page it will impose some serious performance constraints. Rather you should use the classes provided by the .NET Framework to read files. Article. May 23, 2002. 8:57:40 AM

In Part 4 of the series, the author looks at how to easily allow the end user to dynamically sort the contents of the DataGrid. Article. May 23, 2002. 8:56:43 AM

I'm sick of having to add bloat to my web pages in order to support the out-dated, non-standards compliant Netscape 4.x browser. Many people argue that Netscape 4.x support is still needed. This article addresses those arguments, point-by-point. (Click for more) A great rant. 8:24:13 AM

In response to Charles Cook, I asked some questions. Stefin Wenig on the .NET mailing list provides a take on why const is not included in C# and the CLR. (Quoted with permission) while Jon Jagger had a creative suggestion. Richard Blewitt from DevelopMentor confirmed that there is no const parameters or methods in C# and CLR. 8:15:14 AM

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