Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults. A high-quality application must be stable, ...

DataDirect Technologies has released DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET data providers. With DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET, developers can write and deploy .NET enterprise applications that connect to ...

ASP.NET sees the session cookie and loads the session (or doesn't, and starts a new one). This is why people recommend serving static, unauthenticated resources like images from a separate domain. How ...

Using COM+ pooled objects to cache and reuse valuable resources is one of the most effective ways to boost performance in server-side .NET and COM-based applications. Database connections are among ...

Learn how to turn ADO.NET classes into tools for constructing software using C# in Mahesh Chand's book, A Programmer's Guide to ADO.NET in C#. The majority of software developed for business relies ...

So much of modern programming is about string manipulation. Whether it’s parsing XML content, building HTML for the browser or trying to understand what the user just typed into that text entry field, ...