Articles by Mahesh Chand

There are many questions about adding multiple columns to a ListView control. Some times its hard for beginners to find even small clues like ListView multi column won't work until you set its View property as Details.

This article explains you how easy is reading a database and Displaying data in a DataGrid using DataSet.

OleDb data provider's connection class (OleDbConnection) provides a method GetOleDbSchemaTable that returns a database schema. The code listed in Listing 1 shows you to call this method. I am using Access 2000 Northwind database.

OleDbDataReader class is very useful when you need to read fast data. The OleDbDataReader class is defined in the System.Data.OleDb namespace. So before you use this class, you need to add these namespaces before using ADO.NET components.

This is a simple tutorial which shows you beginners how to create a WindForms application in VB.NET.

In this article, you'll see VB.NET version of how to use Web classes to download a file through HTTP. You can use three different ways to download a file contents through HTTP.

This article answers some of the frequently asked questions related to Tablet PC and Tablet PC application development.

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, which is a new addition to the Windows operating systems series and successor of Windows XP. In this article, you will get a glimpse of Whidbey and support of Windows Longhorn applications.

Before installing Windows Longhorn on my new laptop, which is running Windows XP, my first thought were if my existing applications, drivers, and tools will work.

In one of my recent applications, I needed machine name, program files folder, and other system related variables. The System.Environment class provides handy members to do so. In this article, I will talk about the Environment class and its members and how to use them in your applications.

Often you may need to save user images in a database and then read back from a database when needed. For an example, we’ll save an author’s photo in a database so it can be read later to display in the author’s article. In this article, you will learn how to read and write BLOB data using ADO.NET.

Learn how to implement custom paging in ADO.NET using DataAdapter, DataSet, and SQL queries to retrieve selected pages of data.

Recently, I was building multi-threaded applications and noticed some intermittent data inconsistency. Soon, I found the culprit was locking mechanism. After doing some research, I gathered the following information and as usual decide to share with you guys.

In this article, I will show you how to load an icon of a Form programmatically.