More articles by Paul D. Sheriff

Author Bio

Paul D. Sheriff is President of PDSA, Inc., which provides .NET consulting, products, and services, including an SDLC document and architectural framework. Paul is a Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California. His .NET books include "ASP.NET Developer's Jumpstart" (Addison-Wesley) and several eBooks listed on PDSA's Web site.

Keep Software Simple

For CoDe Magazine | June 22, 2009

Pay attention to the true goal of software to avoid over-engineering your software solutions.

Insulate Your Code with the Provider Model

For CoDe Magazine | December 26, 2007

Find out how to protect your code from changes by taking advantage of the Provider Model, which lets you swap components at run time.

Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets

For CoDe Magazine | October 7, 2005

Browsers often have a difficult time reading a style definition for one reason or another. Adding a position (and sometimes a width) value to every appropriate CSS definition can jumpstart the browser into recognizing your styles correctly.

Software Configuration and Management Using Visual SourceSafe and VS .NET

For CoDe Magazine | June 1, 2004

Good software development is a combination of many things that are outside of just writing great code. Turning the art of software development into the science that makes for controllable, predictable, managed software projects makes your business more productive.

Creating Web Sites with ASP.NET Whidbey

For CoDe Magazine | February 19, 2004

ASP.NET Whidbey adds a huge number of productivity features and enhancements. Although it's still early in the development process, Paul Sheriff and Ken Getz dig in and start playing with some of the new features, passing along what they've found.

Microsoft Exception Management Application Blocks

For CoDe Magazine | December 16, 2002

Good exception handling should be put into an application from the very beginning. The Microsoft Exception Management Application Block (EAAB) will allow you to write one line of code in all of your Catch blocks and this one line of code can be configured to call multiple classes to log errors in any way you see fit. The best part is you do not need to recompile your application; you simply have to provide a new DLL that contains these new exception classes.

ASP.NET: Creating an Application Configuration Class

For CoDe Magazine | October 21, 2002

Most of you are probably aware that the web.config file in an ASP.NET project controls the behavior of your Web site. If you make a change to one of the built-in settings in this file, ASP.NET automatically detects those changes and applies them immediately. Wouldn't it be nice if you could have your own settings in this file applied immediately as well? In this article you will learn how to do just that. You will also learn the difference between the Application object and creating your own Configuration class.

Avoid Using Variants

For XML with Visual Basic and VB.NET | August 21, 1997

Variants take more memory and it's slower to get/set their values ...

Data Access Speed

For Tip Bank | August 21, 1997

When you connect to remote servers, always use tables attached to ...

Use the Shortest Variables

For Visual Basic | August 21, 1997

Use the shortest data type you can for variables. If you're going ...

Use a Control's Implicit Value "Default" Property

For Controls | August 20, 1997

Every control has an implicit "value" property. For ...