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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. In this article, I will show you how to take advantage of master pages in your applications when building a Web site using ASP.NET 2.0.

Learn about Visual Studio 2005 features for building websites with new controls, including creating pages without writing code.

Working with ADO.NET Database Components in VS.NET and WinForms is so fun. You write few lines of code and these controls take care of rest for you. In this article, I'm going to show you how to use these database Components in your .NET WinForms applications using VB.NET.

Working with data-bound controls in VS.NET IDE is a fun. You just set couple of properties and you're all set to view, add, and update data using these data-bound controls. Some of these common controls are DataGrid, DataCombo, and ListBox.

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.