(Ben Nadel) One of the best things about reading a book like the jQuery Cookbook, which was written by a collection of jQuery community experts, is that you get see all the cool little tricks that these developers use in their programming. One neat thing that I picked up from James Padolsey was the

(AzamSharp) In ASP.NET WebForms, UserControls were used to break the application into smaller pieces. Each piece represented an important part of the application. In ASP.NET MVC application you can achieve the same effect using RenderPartial and RenderAction methods. In this article we are going to

(Norm Estabrook) You can add a custom group to the Message tab of an Outlook mail item. For example, here is a custom group named “MyCoolGroup” that I added to the message tab of a new message:

(Vince Varallo) This is the seventh article of a series that uses ASP.NET and Crystal Reports to build reports using the Adventure Works Sample Database. Before reading this article it would be helpful to have read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, or Part 6, but it is not required.

(John Charles Olamendy) In this article, I will cover how to implement custom business logic (a simple string concatenation) using C# inline on maps in BizTalk. This is a common scenario when the business logic is very simple and we want to embed the logic within the map.

(Dan Wahlin) Large-scale Silverlight applications can end up making hundreds of calls from the application to WCF service operations. When I first started building Silverlight applications, I called WCF services using the standard technique, which is to define a client-side class that’s used to call

(Justin James) I’ve written about the Parallel Extensions library from .NET (PFx) a few times; the last time I looked at PFx, it was a Community Technology Preview available for .NET 3.5. At the time, it was poorly documented, and while it was possible to muddle through the “how” of using its variou

(Bryian Tan) A few weeks ago, I was working on an ASP.NET web application and need a simple horizontal menu with submenu. I decided to use ASP.NET Menu control, just drag and drop the control on to the page. Simple enough, but the control does not provide access key and target window support on menu

(Ben Nadel) One of the things that makes jQuery so gosh-darn amazing is the ease with which it can be extended. One form of extension is the addition of new pseudo selectors to be used in the selector engine. I’ve explored this feature before; but, the other night, I was reading James Padolsey’s cha

(Mahesh Chand) In HTML, percentage (%) symbol is used to define uniform layout that keeps the same width and height ratio when a Web page is resized. We did not have this feature in Windows Forms. However, WPF support this feature in a different manner by using an asterisk (*) suffix with a double n