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A distilled methodology for detecting and isolating NHibernate-related performance and scalability issues

An extender control to make printing a form quick, easy and flexible

The appearance of the GridView, DetailsView, and FormView controls can be customized through myriad style-related properties. Properties like CssClass, Font, BorderWidth, BorderStyle, BorderColor, Width, and Height, among others, dictate the general appearance of the rendered control. Properties including HeaderStyle, RowStyle, AlternatingRowStyle, and others allow these same style settings to be applied to particular sections. Likewise, these style settings can be applied at the field level.

In many scenarios, though, the formatting requirements depend upon the value of the displayed data. For example, to draw attention to out of stock products, a report listing product information might set the background color to yellow for those products whose UnitsInStock and UnitsOnOrder fields are both equal to 0. To highlight the more expensive products, we may want to display the prices of those products costing more than $75 in a bold font.

Adjusting the format of the GridView, DetailsView, or FormView based upon the data bound to it can be accomplished in multiple ways. In this tutorial, we'll look at how to accomplish data bound formatting through the use of the DataBound and RowDataBound event handlers. In the next tutorial we'll explore an alternative approach...

The Simple Performance Chart is a UserControl that is designed and developed to display varying performance data like reads per second on a disk drive, the bandwidth for a server, or free CPU resources, in a visual, clean manner. It can be controlled by a built-in Timer, which makes synchronized display of values possible. The control offers several formatting options like border style, line colors and styles, widths, a background gradient, and so on.

This article shows you how to write a performing control using .NET 2.0 and GDI+.

Everybody who writes native Windows applications knows that the Windows Forms controls provided by Microsoft are a great time-saver for oft-used interface components such as text boxes and drop-down lists. But sometimes we need a reusable form control that does things Microsoft hasn't pre-built for us. Learn to extend existing Windows Forms controls with custom functions that will save you time.

The twenty-sixth part of the C# Fundamentals tutorial continues the examination of the DateTime data type provided by C# and the .NET Framework. In this instalment we will consider how information can be compared and extracted from values of this type.

Explore ways to reduce page load time, manage state efficiently, scale back on memory use, handle resources better, and improve data access in your ASP.NET applications.

One of the first things that developers new to the Microsoft .NET Framework learn is how to read from and write to text files using methods from the FileStream class of the System.IO namespace. However, the .NET I/O stream model also provides developers with a powerful way to create custom stream classes. In this month's column, I'll explain key techniques you can use to test such custom stream classes-and specifically those that deal with transforming data read from or written to another stream.

If you're tired of writing custom validation code for every input field in your applications—and of fixing the resulting validation errors—then you'll welcome the generic validation engine described in this article, which can automate many validation scenarios.