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Like my other .NET Development blogs, I preach about building applications with a layered, Object-Oriented architecture. Now I'm going to discuss how to create a base class that all of your business objects can inherit.

This base class will contain methods and properties that, when inherited, will be available to any class that inherits it. In Visual Studio, we will start by creating a new Class Library (*.vb or *.cs) in the App_Code directory. We will name this file BizObject.vb ...

Business Objects are objects in an object-oriented computer application or program that represent the entities within a business domain. A business object will often encapsulate all of the data and business logic associated with the entity in which it represents. Furthermore, business objects provide flexibility and adaptability, scalability and reusability.

Let's take a look at how a business object may look within an ASP.NET web application. Let's say you want to design an application ...

I currently work for an organization that still widely uses Internet Explorer 6. We have only a few machines with IE7 installed. This means that until all computers have been converted, those of us on the development team must develop for both browsers.

I recently ran into an issue using the modal popup, that only appeared in IE6. On the intial page load, when I call the Show() method of the ModalPopupExtender, everything appears fine. It is only after a postback that the problem occurs. ...

Over the past year and a half, I've been doing what I can to convert Classic ASP scripters over to ASP.NET programmers.

Why did I call them "scripters"? Because Classic ASP uses scripting languages such as server-side VBScript and server-side JScript, whereas ASP.NET uses programming languages such as VB.Net, C# and J#. These programming languages are full-blown object-oriented languages.

After I was able to successfully convert these former Classic ASP scripters ...