(Keith Newman) Anyone who wants to learn about ASP.NET MVC will quickly discover that MVC makes extensive use of a relatively new feature of .NET called attributes. Many programmers who are new to ASP.NET MVC may also be new to the use of attributes. This article covers the basic concepts of attribu

(Arun Karthick) This article illustrates the use of the InstanceContextMode property used in the ServiceBehaviour attribute and how it can be so handy in the latest communication technology Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), introduced by Microsoft as a part of the .NET framework SDK 3.0 and la

(Jason Dove) Once a report library grows to a certain size there is always going to be common formulas which are needed again and again. Having ready access to them can save a vast amount of development time.

(Ged Mead) The RichTextBox can be a very useful control to take in text input from a user. With minimal work, you can create a reasonable text editor based on this control. But there’s not much point in having a multifunctional RichTextBox around if you can’t save the input or redisplay it when n

(Phil Haack) During the MVP summit, an attendee asked me for some help with a common scenario common among those building content management systems. He wanted his site to use human friendly URLs.

(Mahesh Chand) A radial gradient brush paints an area with a radial gradient that has a circle, along with a focal point, to define the gradient behavior. The focal point defines the center of the gradient and has default value 0.0. The RadialGradientBrush object represents a radial gradient brush.

(Dino Esposito) In the past few columns, I explored a number of data-related features of the upcoming ASP.NET Ajax Library beta, which is now part of the CodePlex Foundation (CodePlex.org). The journey began last September with a look at some of the new features in Web Forms and continued with some

(Arun Karthick) In this article I am going let you know the notable features of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 IDE Professional Edition which hit my eye at a first glimpse. Currently only the beta versions of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET framework 4.0 are available, but the actual release is expected s

(milindchavan12) In addition to using Web Server controls in your ASP.NET web pages, you can create your own custom, reusable controls using the same techniques you use for creating ASP.NET web pages. These controls are called User Controls. A User Control is a kind of composite control that works m

(Ben Nadel) Every now and then, I have a situation where I have a given set of nodes and I need to get particular ancestors of those nodes. jQuery currently provides three ways of accessing ancestors of a given collection: parent(), parents(), and parentsUntil(). Parent() gets the direct parent of e