You assign an assembly a strong name by associating the assembly with a pair of 1,024-bit cryptographic public and private keys. The actual process varies slightly, depending on whether the developer has access to the private key. In larger, security-oriented corporations, most developers do not have access to the private key. Instead, only a few members of a final QA or security team can access the private key. Read on to learn more about signing code assemblies. [More]

In the .Net Framework 1.x most of the collection classes store a data of type "System.Object", so you can store any types of data in the collection object or many types in the same collection object. This makes the addition of new items very easy, but when you need to extract a stored data from the collection you will first need to cast it back to its original data type. This cast had a performance impact especially when you are going to deal with the stored data repeatedly. [More]

Scenario: While a partial page postback is occurring disable all form fields and give the user a pleasant please wait message that can be used consistently across your application. We need to create an overlay that works in conjunction with the updatepanel as well as direct from JavaScript. [More]

Over the years there have been a number of methods to move SQL data into Microsoft Excel. Using Automation you can call methods and properties that are specific to excel which gives you the greatest flexibility for specifying the location of your data in the workbook. The following are two recent approaches to export Sql Server table row data to an excel workbook. [More]