(Paul Kimmel) Using an anonymous type means that the compiler will code generate a class for you based on context and named initializers. This article introduces you to anonymous types and explores some of the variations of their usage.

(Ged Mead) In some of my earlier blogs – here, here and here, I looked at some rather colorful, non-rectangular versions of the ProgressBar. Although you probably wouldn’t want to use some of those versions outside of a game environment, I hope it did show you how you can create and tweak non-rectan

(Ben Nadel) Earlier this week, I was listening to the YayQuery pod cast – I think it was episode 3. If you haven’t yet checked it out, I highly recommend it; Paul, Rebecca, Adam, and Alex are some bright guys (and gals). One of my favorite segments on the show is Paul Irish’s "jQuery Anti-Patterns".

(Jason Allor) In the last post in this series, I explored using WCF RIA Services to load a set of entities from a self-referencing, hierarchical table in the database, and display the items in a Silverlight TreeView.

(K. Scott Allen) If you are an ASP.NET Web Forms programmer making the switch to ASP.NET MVC – what’s the first thing you should learn?

(Tapas Pal) Mono is an open source .NET development framework based on the ECMA standards for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) Led by Novell, the Mono project creates a .NET-compatible set of tools that enable developers to build Linux and cross-platform applications, including a C# compiler

(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 line charts using the WPF Toolkit.

(Peter Vogel) I finished last month’s column, titled Dynamically Setting Parameters , with a bit of philosophy around when to use the DataView and when to use the DataSource where the two controls share functionality.

(Ben Nadel) As you may or may not know, when ColdFusion compiles your code, it doesn’t compile down to Java objects that directly mimic your ColdFusion objects; rather, ColdFusion compiles your code down into sets of nested Java classes that make ColdFusion’s extreme flexibility possible. In the Col

(Sergey Zwezdin) ADO.NET Data Services platform is a powerful tool to build services based on REST approach. Such services allow to work with data via HTTP conveniently. In platform ADO.NET Data Services there is a lot of implemented functional capabilities that could be used in service-oriented app