There are a variety of reasons why developers use globally unique identifiers (GUIDs), such as assigning unique identifiers to classes or when dealing with databases. This tip contains sample code that shows you how to generate GUIDs with VB.NET.

Many beginning WinForms developers have trouble keeping the controls on their forms uniform and organized. Often the controls look fine at design time, but when the form is resized at runtime the controls either lose their positions or don't compensate for the resized form. Zach Smith explains how to use the built-in Anchor and Dock properties of a control to mandate its behavior during resizing.

Tony Patton focuses on CSS fundamentals and explains how multiple rules for the same element are handled. Multiple rules ensure that there will be no surprises for either you or the user community.

A quick run down on how you can use regular expressions in your own programs to give you more power over searching and substituting text.

Irina Medvinskaya offers an example that shows how VB.NET's String.Compare method can come in handy when you need to compare two string variables.

If OLPC is successful then the next generation of programmers will come from an environment that is a vast change from the fringe desktop that we live in today.

Developers should have a basic proficiency of a language's data types. In this article, Irina Medvinskaya presents an overview of two types of predefined C# variables: value types and reference types.

Tom Mochal provides a simple scope change process that you can use on your project.

While trawling over some of our older content on Builder AU I came across a noteworthy article about egoless programming.

Nslookup is a DNS verification and troubleshooting tool included with Windows 2000 and later releases. Learn how to troubleshoot a variety of network communication problems with the extremely useful, yet often overlooked, nslookup command-line tool.

Learn how to convert date and time values into formatted strings by overloading a version of the ToString method, which accepts a format string.

Dell has announced a recall of over 4 million laptop batteries due to the risk of ‘overheating’.  As many who follow news within the IT industry will know, the events which have prompted this recall can be described as a little more serious than ‘overheating’—one example being this laptop which burst in to flames at ...

Decreasing page load time is imperative when dealing with Web site performance. Tony Patton explains how you can make this happen by using the .NET Caching API.

This brief tutorial will show you how to use a PHP 5.x MySQL extension called, MySQL Improved, to implement MySQL-based transactions with PHP.

When you set up the first network for a small business, you may not give much thought to how the company's growth will affect your IP addressing scheme. By planning ahead at the beginning, you can ensure that you have plenty of addresses available to meet your organization's growing needs.