(Ben Nadel) The set of functions built into ColdFusion is huge and impressive. But, sometimes, wouldn’t it be awesome to add a function or two of your own to that set of implicit functions in such a way that your user defined functions would be accessible to all aspects of your code? I know this rai

(Mahesh Chand) The WPF Toolkit released in June 2009 comes with a data visualization assembly called System.Windows.Controls.DataVisualization.Toolkit.dll that hosts the charting functionality in WPF. This article demonstrates how to draw charts using the WPF Toolkit.

(Dan Mabbutt) Keeping up with all of the technology changes in .NET is like playing Whack-a-Mole. You’re watching one hole and the mole pops up in another.

(Techie Mate) Garbage collection is a process of releasing the memory used by the objects, which are no longer referenced. This is done in different ways and different manners in various platforms and languages. We will see how garbage collection is being done in .NET.

(Shan McArthur) The purpose of this article is to give an introduction to XRM for .NET Developers and application architects. Most developers are familiar with various Microsoft technologies including the .NET Framework, Microsoft SQL Server, WPF, and ASP.NET. They are accustomed to designing their

In ASP.NET you often require the ID of a row that you have inserted into a SQL database, either to display the record, or to use the ID to modify data in linked tables.

(Peter Vogel) The original paradigm for Web applications was the request/response cycle: send a request to a Web server along with any data on the page, have code on the server build a new page, send a response consisting of the new page back to the client, and (finally) have the browser redisplay t

(Alex Blekhman) Finding a file in a big solution may be a hard and daunting task. It is especially true when the solution contains tens of projects organized in complex hierarchy. Unfortunately, Visual Studio IDE doesn’t provide a convenient way to find an arbitrary file in the solution. Find File i

(Ben Nadel) What you are about to read might not hold any value; but, it took me over ten hours to figure out and I think it touches on some really cool stuff, so I’m gonna post about it anyway. As you have probably heard, ColdFusion 9 introduced the concept of “ColdFusion as a Service” to open up C

(Dave Verschleiser) The subject of .net remoting can be very complex. There are several different ways you can do remoting; you can marshall by value or by reference, you can use server-side activation or client-side activation. You can choose SingleCall or Singleton instantiation, among others. You