Dimitrios Markatos
Dimitrios, or Jimmy as his friends call him, is a .NET developer/architect who specializes in Microsoft Technologies for creating high-performance and scalable data-driven enterprise Web and desktop applications. Till now Jimmy has authored nearly two dozen .NET articles, published on Dot Net Junkies, 4 Guys From Rolla, Sitepoint, MSDN Academic Alliance, Developers.NET, The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site, and here on Developer Fusion, covering various unique and advanced techniques on .NET.
Latest articles
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High-Performance .NET Application Development & Architecture
by Dimitrios MarkatosThis article demonstrates the art of creating and architecting high-performance and scalable .NET applications, covering all stages, from planning to development and their perspective best practices.
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Precise .NET Server Content Caching
by Dimitrios MarkatosA simple demonstration of how to programatically use the caching facilities that ASP.NET offers.
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DataGrid/GridView Paging and Sorting Using A DataReader
by Dimitrios MarkatosThis article will demonstrate two ways one could implement the DataReader to bind a DataGrid, that includes caching, paging and persistent bi-directional sorting, all without the use of a DataAdapter/DataSet at all, and includes ASP.NET 2.0 GridView version!
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Selecting, Confirming & Deleting Multiple Checkbox Items In A DataGrid/GridView - Part 2: Maintaining CheckBox State Acr
by Dimitrios MarkatosIn this article, we will examine how to create a fully functional DataGrid and GridView in .NET 2.0 with all the features you'd find set up on Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL Mail, and further demonstrate how you can multi-select items across pages and batch delete them all.
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Dynamic Column Sorting and Paging in ASP.NET
by Dimitrios MarkatosDemonstrates how to enable your visitors to sort your datagrid by columns, and implement paging.
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Building a Full-Featured Custom DataGrid Control
by Dimitrios MarkatosIn this article, we will demonstrate how you can build your very own Datagrid control component, one that you will be able to customize, and more importantly reuse. Based on this ability, you will then end up with one powerful control that will have many implementations, from which you could learn about creating almost any other types of custom controls.
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Selecting, Confirming & Deleting Multiple Checkbox Items In A DataGrid (i.e. HotMail & Yahoo)
by Dimitrios MarkatosIn this article, we will examine how to create a fully functional DataGrid with all the features you'd find set up on Hotmail or Yahoo. As an added bonus we'll be performing all of our data tasks strictly utilizing Microsoft's new Data Access Application Block or DAAB v2.
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Replicating GetRows in .NET
by Dimitrios MarkatosDimitrios explains how replicating GetRows in .NET is easy and shows how it offers precise control of the details of the data and its display.
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The Quick & Dirty .NET Guide to C#/VB OOP
by Dimitrios MarkatosAlthough this article won't be an exhaustive OOP treatise, its objective nevertheless is to present in a quick and dirty manner C#/VB Object-Oriented Programming. Moreover, even though this article may be slightly geared more towards C#, all important VB assessments or similarities are addressed and demonstrated. By the way, keep in mind C# is very case sensitive. Incidentally, don't be put off at the length of this article, a lot of it is simply repeated code examples for both languages.
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.NET Data Caching
by Dimitrios MarkatosAn introduction to using data caching in your ASP.NET pages, from simple time-specific data expiration to file dependencies, plus a real-world example with caching for data in a pagable DataGrid control.