(Jason Allor) In my previous post, I explored how to display a set of self-referencing, hierarchical entities in a Silverlight TreeView, with the entities loaded from server to client using WCF RIA Services. This example used a static set of data on the server, which was already formatted into a hie

(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 area charts using the WPF Toolkit.

(Jason Allor) There are many samples floating around showing how to use WCF RIA Services to load data into a GridView, either directly or through the Silverlight DomainDataSource control. Sometimes, however, the entity type you’re working with is self-referencing and hierarchical in nature, for exam

(Bill McCarthy) The Microsoft .NET Framework 4 library includes new generic tuple classes. Tuples are a group of properties that provide a means for you to easily group pieces of data together without having to write your own classes. There are tuples of different sizes, from a tuple with a single t

(Mike Brind) If you have a Google Analytics account, you can use the Data Export API provided by Google to access your visitor stats, and retrieve them for use elsewhere. Here’s how to display some stats in ASP.NET.

(John Charles Olamendy) Sometimes we need to develop integration applications which receive documents with different schemas arriving from external entities, and it’s required to transform each format to a common (canonical) internal schema using port maps on the receive ports in BizTalk Server. In

(Ben Nadel) In ColdFusion, the Arguments-Collection object is an objectively awesome object because it allows us to access a function’s CFArgument values using either named-keys or ordered-indices. That’s way cool! When I was writing my last post on ArraySplice(), I thought it would be nice to be ab

(Santosh Benjamin) In terms of hands-on coding (not general awareness) I’m a bit of a newbie to the world of LINQ actually, having only dabbled with a little LINQ to XML in MockingBird and even there I wasnt too impressed with it in the area of XPath queries. But I came across something yesterday th

(Questpond) Memory leaks in .NET application have always being programmer’s nightmare. Memory leaks are biggest problems when it comes to production servers. Productions servers normally need to run with least down time. Memory leaks grow slowly and after sometime they bring down the server by consu

(Don McCrady) Now that Visual Studio Beta2 has been available for a few weeks (see Rick’s earlier blog post) I hope you’ve had a chance to experiment with one or both of the concurrent containers that were introduced: concurrent_queue and concurrent_vector. These two containers are lock-free