Do you need to know when a file or directory has been updated? The FileSystemWatcher class gives you a very easy means to monitor the file system.

What do you do when you need to read in an entire file and process it as a string? Here is a simple solution.

There's no need to store file system paths in a database. Just store images in your database and then directly load them to your ASP.NET pages.

Learn how to read and write Open XML files (MS Office 2007).

Get a sneak preview of the compression and decompression classes that are coming in the .NET Framework 2.0 due out later this year.

Learn how to display, add, edit, and delete data from a single XML file by using C# console applications. With a little effort, you can implement these techniques in Windows-based applications.

Learn some time-saving tricks to use ASP.NET to read information from a database to your Web site.

Tom Archer illustrates how to locate files matching a specified extension by using a .NET component and various .NET classes.

Learn about using application configuration files in Microsoft .NET and the concept of application configuration files and the native support the Microsoft .NET Framework provides.

Having dealt with customer environments where VS.NET was installed without IIS, Paul Kimmel offers his notes on how to recover when you can't run or create projects because someone forgot to install a necessary prerequisite.

Learn how to upload a file to a Web server by using Visual Basic .NET.

Learn how to use ASP.NET to upload files. More importantly, learn how to store an uploaded file directly into a database.