(Tess Ferrandez) Visual Studio.NET 2010 has a new feature that allows you to create nice directed graphs with a markup language called DGML (Directed Graph Markup Language).

(Mahesh Chand) The Visual object in WPF represents a visual control. That said, you can pretty much create a visual that can be a control or a combination of controls including a Window, Page, or even a MediaElement and draw an element with this visual. A Visual object usually hosts one container pa

(Ged Mead) In previous blogs, I looked at how to access a plain text file through a RichTextBox and then how to open and save content in RTF format. In the second blog, I also looked at some core editing features which are available as keyboard shortcuts.

(Scott Guthrie) We are continuing to make progress on shipping Visual Studio 2010. I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who has downloaded and tried out the VS 2010 Release Candidate, and especially to those who have sent us feedback or reported issues with it. This data has been invaluable

(Ben Nadel) jQuery comes with a number of built-in animation methods like slideUp() and slideDown(). While these appear to be packaged in their own methods, many of them are powered internally by the animate() method. And while the animate() method handles many of the effects, a string of sequential

(Mark Strawmyer) Welcome, .NET Developers, to this installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column. In my last column, Introducing the Entity Framework, I covered introductory examples on the Entity Framework and compared LINQ to SQL. For this piece, I’ll focus on building queries with the Entity Framew

(AzamSharp) Dependency injection is a process of supplying an external dependency to a component. In this article we will learn how to use StructureMap as our dependency injection container.

(Peter Vogel) In my last column (Reduce Maintenance with Routing in ASP.NET 4) I looked both at how routing reduces maintenance costs and how ASP.NET 4 simplifies implementing routing. This column goes into the details of integrating routing with your application.

(Beth Massi) Starting in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, you can create ADO.NET Data Services to easily expose data models via RESTful web services. So if you are building a remote CRUD data access layer then this is a technology that you’re probably using or are looking into.

(Joe Pitz) If you already are using stored procedures and have you own data layer, skip the introduction and take a look at the Coding Example.