(Janko Jovanovic) In my previous article I wrote about an importance of handling different message types properly. In this article we’ll create a simple ASP.NET user control and apply CSS styles shown in previous article.

What is a conditionally-driven event handler, and why would you want to use one? Basically, such an event handler will perform its assigned action — such as displaying text on the screen — if and only if a certain specified condition is met. As you might imagine, such event handlers have a range o

(Ged Mead) In previous WPF RichTextBox blogs, I’ve looked at ways you can display plain text and RTF content. Plain text and Rich Text Format both pre-date WPF and there are lots of scenarios where this might be your type of text source. But if you begin to move into WPF in a serious way, you’ll p

(Mahesh Chand) All elements in XAML including all brushes have an Opacity attribute that defines the transparency of an element. The value of Opacity is between 0 and 1. The value 0 means an element is fully-transparent and value 1 means an element is fully opaque. The default value of Opacity is 1.

(Jon Skeet) One of the greatest understatements I’ve heard in a newsgroup was made by Patricia Shanahan, in a Java newsgroup in 2001: “Multi-threaded programming needs a little care.” Multi-threading is probably one of the worst understood aspects of programming, and these days almost all applicatio

(Sandeep Kumar) Here are few tips to improve the performance of your web application.

(Dino Esposito) Last month I discussed the implementation of master-detail views using the new features coming with the ASP.NET Ajax Library. The list of new features includes a syntax for client-side live data binding and a rich rendering component, exemplified by the DataView client control. By pu

(Ben Nadel) When I first starting playing with jQuery events, a lot of what I learned about the jQuery Event object was through trial and error. While I could be remembering incorrectly, I used to find that the jQuery documentation was good at describing the event handlers, but not so good at descri

(AnthonyPaulO) Yesterday I ran across a web-page on the internet where people were voting for enhancements to the next .NET Framework. On the page I noticed there were a lot of people voting for a safe multi-threaded way of dispatching an INotifyCollectionChanged event, mostly regarding the Observab

(Scott Wiltamuth) As we are approaching the release of VS 2010, I have seen a number of questions from customers about our language strategy for VB and C#. We made a shift in strategy at the beginning of this release cycle and have been talking about it publicly for some time. A lot of this discus