(Ben Nadel) jQuery makes the creation of dynamic user interfaces easier than ever before. A few of the convenience methods that I use every single in my web application development are slideDown() and slideUp(). These are perfect for showing and hiding content in a non-jarring manner. The slideDown(

(daylightdj) This article takes a deep look at a commonly used .NET construct (DataBinding) step by step. First, the article sets up a simple program that binds an array of objects to a ComboBox using the DisplayMember and ValueMember properties. Next, it shows how this can often fail. After that, w

(Mahesh Chand) Clipping a region is a process of displaying partial area of a region by setting the outline of a region. In WPF, the clipping has been extended to all elements that are inherited from UIElement that includes controls, images, panels, Windows, and Pages. The UIElement class has a Cli

(Dino Esposito) With ASP.NET MVC 2 that approaches its final stage of RTM, more and more developers and architects, recent or early adopters of this powerful and alluring framework, begin wondering what would be the ideal structure of their controller classes and, more importantly, what is the “exac

(Nuno Silva) One very interesting addition to MVC 2 is the power to assign templates to fields in your classes and make the rendering suit your needs. The advantage is that, if you need to display the same field in several views, you can benefit from a one-stop place where you can customize its disp

(Ben Nadel) With jQuery 1.4, I was very happy to see that they finally gave us the ability to invoke the data() method without arguments. Calling the data() method in this way returns an object containing all of the keys stored using the data() method on this object. When I was working on my jQuery

(Malcolm Sheridan) Recently a new version of jQuery was released. This version is 1.4. As with any new version, ultimately you see what used to take you several lines of code, now rolled up into a single line of code. I’m going to demonstrate a question I’ve been asked many times on forums and that

(Vince Varallo) The upcoming release of Visual Studio 2010 will contain the Entity Framework 4 which is Microsoft’s second release of the Entity Framework. The new and improved EF4 contains a boat load of new features which many developers have suggested after using version 1. It also comes closer

(Ged Mead) In this earlier blog, I introduced the basics of creating an Entity Data Model (EDM) and using LINQ to run queries against it. In this article, I want to look at how to create queries that will pull data from more than one table. In other words, the LINQ to Entities way of accessing r

(Sanjit Sil) When we are looking to optimize the performance of web applications we should keep in mind about Memory Load, Processor Load and Network Bandwidth. Here are 50 best practices to improve the performance and scalability of ASP.NET applications.