(Scott Guthrie) This is the twenty-first in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s blog post covers a few of the nice usability improvements coming with the VS 2010 debugger.

(John Charles Olamendy) This article is intended to illustrate the main concepts of distributed database technologies supporting the replication principles in order to share data among different database systems. Companies have multiple copies of data distributed across various autonomous sites, and

(Ben Nadel) The other day, on my FLEX On jQuery blog entry, Johan brought up data binding in the comments. Several other people have also mentioned data binding in the context of jQuery. Data binding, as a concept, is something that I am only vaguely familiar with; as such, I wanted to start playing

(Scott Guthrie) Search engine optimization (SEO) is important for any publically facing web-site. A large % of traffic to sites now comes directly from search engines, and improving your site’s search relevancy will lead to more users visiting your site from search engine queries. This can directl

(Nishant Sivakumar) This article was inspired by Reed Copsey, Jr.’s Blend behavior which is up on the Expression Code Gallery. Reed’s behavior uses a neat technique that lets the View-Model handle the Closing/Closed events of the View in an MVVM friendly manner. Since his code was tied to the Expres

(Kevin Blasko) The purpose of this blog post is to give you some background on the implementation of the Dataflow Analysis (DFA) rules in Visual Studio 2010.

(Bryian Tan) In this tutorial, I will demonstrate how to use MultiHandleSlider extender to choose or display year and month in a range. This control eliminates the need to use four DropDownlist controls to hold the range values and validation control for validating user selection. Then we will use t

(Ged Mead) A friend asked me recently if it was possible to access resources that were created and stored in a separate assembly. Although I was sure it could be done, I’d never tried it, so I was interested in experimenting with this idea. It turns out that the Pack URL holds the key. Here’s an e

(Hiren Deliwala) Business applications have failed to satisfy growing reporting and analytic needs of business users. To overcome this limitation, most IT organizations have embarked on implementing business intelligence solutions. The promise of BI solution is to provide reporting and analytics fro

(Joe Pitz) As developers we have a wide array of tools at our disposal. One of the most time consuming, but most beneficial tasks we must undertake is to determine which of those tools to use for a given situation.