Microsoft's .NET Framework 1.1 does not provide proper utilities to communicate with the serial ports on a Windows machine. The RS232 library and this quick tutorial will have you talking to a COM port on your machine in no time.
If you are working in a mixed development environment you know that ASP "Classic" and ASP.NET cannot share session state information. I am offering the source code I used to this resolve this issue as well as discussing a couple of other possible resolutions.
Shows and explains you how to make an ASP .NET Web Service, an ASP .NET Web Application and how to consume the Web Service with the ASP .NET Web Application.
Out of the box, ASP.NET is a very powerful platform for writing XML Web Services. But what happens when you need to format the XML to match an existing XML grammar? Not surprisingly, this can be accomplished using the XML Serialization Engine. In the first part of this two-part article, Justin Rudd shows you the basics of the engine as well as how the engine works with ASP.NET.
In this article, we will look at some of the architectural and design decisions that may affect ASP.NET application scalability. In addition, you will leanr how you can use Enterprise Services and MSMQ to reduce the effect of those scalability problems.
I've been working on a financial reporting project lately and came upon the idea of bringing our charts from ChartFX.NET to life. The idea being that we could dynamically review each pixel's color in the chart in order to generate an HTML image map on the fly. This would enable us to apply supporting documentation in the form of links or JavaScript functions to perform some sort of action when the user moves their mouse over the chart or clicks a section of it.
