(jabit) I wanted to create a simple AutoComplete source which pulled data from a SQL table and displayed the choices in a text box so when the user types it brings up the possible choices. I got it to work but it was very slow so I loaded up JetBrains dot Trace and found a much faster way of getting

(Ben Nadel) A couple of months ago, at the jQuery NYC meeting, one of the attendees (his name escapes me at the moment) talked about using finite state machines to develop Javascript widgets. I haven’t dealt with a state machine since my undergrad computer science studies. As such, I thought it woul

(Ged Mead) I was looking for a way of using a ProgressBar to give a kind of a ‘closing down’ message to the user . Although I played around with lots of ideas, I eventually settled on one where I use an image of a person at a window and animate the ProgressBar to give the impression of a blind […]

(Justin James) A TechRepublic member sent me four good questions about the future of Java and the cost to develop in it compared to .NET. Below I highlight each question and offer my thoughts on these subjects. (R)

(Mahesh Chand) StackPanel is used to arrange child elements into a single line that can be oriented horizontally or vertically. The StackPanel element in XAML represents a StackPanel. The following code snippet creates a StackPanel at design-time using XAML.

(Tess Ferrandez) A couple of weeks ago I helped out on a high CPU issue in an ASP.NET application.

(Bryan Thomas Weikel) This article presents a three-tier .NET WinForms accounting application, called "LEK", that can be configured at run time to access its data (in a SQL Server database) using either LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework or NHibernate. The download for the article contains the Visual St

(Gokulnath Murugesan) This article shows you how to use ASP.NET AJAX PageMethods to perform Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) operations with an HTML table. Here HTML table acts as a light-weight DataGrid.

(Peter Vogel) This week I’m looking at a problem that you probably don’t have: dynamically changing the controls on the page at runtime. The scenario that I’m addressing is when, depending on the choices that the user makes, you want to add or remove multiple controls on the page. And, just to make

(Mahesh Chand) Elements in WPF do not have a border property. To place a border around an element, WPF provides the Border element. Similar to other WPF elements, the Border has Width, Height, Background, and HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment properties.