(Jonathan Aneja) By now you’ve likely heard about the major new features coming in VB 2010, but there’s also a number of smaller additions in the language and IDE that might not be as readily noticeable. “Hidden Gems” will be a multi-part series where we’ll explore some of these smaller enhancement

(Jirka Kosek) The Web is an ideal platform for developing applications and services with worldwide reach. To create an application that has true global appeal, you must adapt it to process and display data in various languages and writing systems.

(TheCodeKing) This article demonstrates a quick and easy-to-use implementation for cross-AppDomain communication in .NET by leveraging Windows native messaging. The XDMessaging library is based on code developed to aid rapid development for a recent Vista project that required a lot of cross-AppDoma

(Ben Nadel) Last night, I was reading the jQuery Cookbook (review to come soon) and I came across something that I had never seen before; or rather, they mentioned something that I had never seen before (the concept was not actually demonstrated in the book). They mentioned in a side note that Javas

(Andrew Fenster) Lambda expressions are part of .Net 3.0. They are used extensively in Linq, but they can also be used on their own. With Lambda expressions, filtering and sorting Lists has become a lot easier.

(Scott Guthrie) Over the last few weeks I’ve been polling developers to see how many are using the new Search Engine Optimization (SEO) toolkit to increase traffic to their web-sites. I’ve been surprised by how many people either have never heard of the tool, or have not yet had a chance to run it

(Ged Mead) In this earlier blog, I looked at how to use a ComboBox to display a list of all the system fonts, displaying each font name in its own font style.

(Tom Dykstra) In Visual Studio you can create Web application projects or Web site projects. Each type has advantages and disadvantages, and you must understand the differences between them in order to select the best type. It is important to select the appropriate project type before you create a p

(AzamSharp) Every now and then we need to pass information from JavaScript to the CLR world using Ajax. There are number of methods for performing this action. In this article we will see different ways of passing JavaScript data to the CLR world.

(Michal Altair Valasek) ASP.NET 3.5 contains a very useful component – the DataPager control. This control allows you to page contents of any control implementing the IPageableItemContainer interface – which is so far only the universal ListView control, also part of ASP.NET 3.5.