(Samir Bellouti) Exception handling is an essential concept in object oriented programming. It permits us to indicate program or method failure in way that it does not affect the method signature and thus, not affecting the overall design of our methods and classes.

(Mike Malter) To create a Dropdown control in an ASP.NET GridView control, you create a template field and wire the behavior to populate the dropdown in the RowDataBound event of the GridView. Here is a simple example.

(Stephen Toub) Visual Studio 2010 is quite a large application, comprising not only the entire integrated development environment (IDE) and all of the tools that make it up, but also the underlying runtimes and frameworks on which it runs, including the .NET Framework 4. When logic in one of these c

(logicchild) The purpose of this article is to give anyone who is not familiar with Silverlight development some concepts on data binding and animation. The examples shown in this article were built using Microsoft’s Expression Blend tool. The article starts with data binding in order to help the de

(Ben Nadel) Hi Ben! I have been reading your blog for about four years now (since I first played with Skin Spider), and I finally have a question to ask. I have finally started playing with Coldfusion 9, and I must say I’m impressed thus far. That said, I’ve stumbled upon my first problem that I hav

(Ged Mead) This came up as a Windows Forms question a short while ago. Someone wanted to create a data bound ComboBox and have a relevant tooltip appear whenever the user hovered any of the items in the list. The strings for the tooltips would be stored in the database along with all the other da

(Mahesh Chand) WrapPanel is similar to StackPanel but it has an additional feature. If elements that are stacked horizontally or vertically don’t fit in the row or column they are in, the remaining elements will wrap around in the same sequence.

(Steve Apiki) Some of the most exciting elements of the Windows 7 UI, like the new taskbar, or jump lists, lie visually outside the application proper but are an important part of the application experience. As a WPF developer, you can tie into these elements to tailor your application for Windows 7

(Suprotim Agarwal) This short article demonstrates how to sort the items of an ASP.NET DropDownList using jQuery. This article is a sample chapter from my EBook called 51 Tips, Tricks and Recipes with jQuery and ASP.NET Controls and has been modified to post it as an article.

(Beth Massi) Last post I showed how to migrate our Northwind Outlook client to .NET 4 and Office 2010. This Outlook Add-in displays order history information in an adjoining form region so sales associates can see that data immediately when communicating with customers. When we originally built this