(Satheesh Babu) Most often, we build applications that works on the data stored in the database. These applications will have more repeated tasks like edit, update, delete which is commonly called as CRUD operations [Create, Read, Update and Delete]. Understanding this need, Microsoft shipped a new

(Ben Nadel) This is just a quick post to clear up any confusion over what kind of objects can be used as a context when performing a jQuery selector execution. Sometimes, when reviewing jQuery code, I see people make data type conversions in their context usage:

(Jeremy Jameson) Last summer I wrote a post introducing my simple, but highly effective approach to logging — including a Logger class that is really just a thin wrapper around the System.Diagnostics.TraceSource class.

(Malcolm Sheridan) Rating systems are all over the web today. They’re an easy and convenient way to give your users the ability to rate what their reading on the page. In ASP.NET WebForms you can use the Ajax Control Toolkit to add a ratings system to your site, but if you’re using ASP.NET MVC, this

(Tapas Pal) .NET Compiler generated warnings (Code Analysis warnings) messages may not be meaningful in the development cycle, but once the code review is done you may need to suppress these compiler generated warning messages. To achieve warning message suppression you can either use In Source Supp

(subramanyam Appala) One common characteristic of user friendly websites is that they have a consistent, site wide page layout and navigation scheme. ASP.NET 2.0 introduces two new features that greatly simplify implementing both a site wide page layout and navigation scheme: master pages and site n

(Scott Mitchell) Each server-side Web control in an ASP.NET Web Forms application has an ID property that identifies the Web control and is name by which the Web control is accessed in the code-behind class. When rendered into HTML, the Web control turns its server-side ID value into a client-side i

(Jeff Levinson) Lab Management is Microsoft’s testing virtualization platform that sits on top of mature technologies such as System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and Hyper-V. It is designed for testing teams, and can be effectively used by developers, to execute code in environments that m

(Andreas Grabner) Visual Studio 2010 is almost here – Microsoft just released the first Release Candidate which looks pretty solid and good. Microsoft added new interfaces for performance management solutions like dynaTrace to extend the Web- and Load-Testing capabilities (check out Ed Glas’s blog o

(Ben Nadel) Last week in my FLEX On jQuery series with Joe Rinehart, I explored the idea of creating non-coupled UI elements that communicate indirectly through the use of event listeners and modifiable event behaviors. In that experiment, I used the core jQuery Event object with custom event types