(Stephen Walther) The goal of this blog entry is to explore the easiest way of inserting a new record into a database using jQuery and .NET. I’m going to explore two approaches: using Generic Handlers and using a WCF service (In a future blog entry I’ll take a look at OData and WCF Data Services).

(Mike Brind) Pretty much every sample application that illustrates ASP.NET MVC uses Linq To SQL or the Entity Framework as the data access method. I’ve seen a number of questions posted to the forums at www.asp.net asking if there are any alternatives, and indeed there are. This article will look at

(Nikhil Kothari) Earlier today, my SilverlightTV recording on RIA Services and Validation went online. I used validation as a feature area to focus on this first recording on RIA Services, because I think it illustrates both the RIA Services value proposition and key elements of the vision around th

(Ben Nadel) The other day, I was exploring the way in which ColdFusion serializes component instances. In that exploration, I discovered that ColdFusion uses a combination of information stored in the component meta data, the component’s actual methods, and tad bit of voodoo black magic to serialize

(Karl E. Peterson) Hi, my name is Karl, and I, uh, like Windows 7. Hard to believe I’m here saying that, but there you go. Given my initial net-positive reaction, I decided I might as well dive right into (off?) the deep end. So I added another 8GB of RAM, and a terabyte of mirrored disk for good me

(Ed Glas) This post follows similar papers done after VS 2005: Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques, and again after VS 2008: Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques for VS 2008.

(Paul Kimmel) I was at the MVP Summit 2010 and they were interviewing and filming "What do you like About Windows 7?" I didn’t interview because at the time the only thing I thought of was that Windows 7 wasn’t getting in my way. But, using VB to write my column and blogs, it was a lot easier to fig

(Mahesh Chand) A Calendar control is used to create a visual calendar that let users pick a date and fire an event on the selection of the date. This article demonstrates how to create and use a Calendar control in WPF using XAML and C#.

(Ben Nadel) A little while ago, Ben Alman released a jQuery plugin that created special jQuery event types for “outside” user events. This plugin allows you to listen for events, such as clicks, that happen outside of a given element. Ben’s plugin is rather awesome and it seemed like a piece of func

(Mahesh Chand) If you need to use XpsDocument class in your WPF project, you must add reference to System.Windows.Xps.Packaging namespace. However, the assembly in which this namespace is defined is not a part of a WPF application by default. It is defined in the ReachFramework.