(Rod Stephens) My article WPF Wonders: Building Control Templates explains how to use templates to tell a control what components it should use to do its work. For example, you can use a template to make a Button use a polygon for its surface instead of the usual rectangle. The template can also det

(Scott Mitchell) The Microsoft Chart controls make it easy to take data from a database or some other data store and present it as a chart. As discussed in Plotting Chart Data, the Chart controls offer a myriad of ways to get data into a chart. You can add the data programmatically, point-by-point,

(Alexandra Rusina) First of all, let’s take a look at the example from one of my previous posts. It creates an expression tree for calculating the factorial of a number.

(Ben Nadel) After watching Simon Free present on ColdFusion Builder Extensions at RIAUnleashed up in Boston, I felt inspired and wanted to come home and start playing around with my own little extensions (get your mind out of the gutter!). As a “hello world” type introduction to the ColdFusion Build

(Scott Mitchell) Many of the web applications I help build can be classified as in-production line of business applications that receive frequent and ongoing feature enhancements. Typically, these applications have dozens if not hundreds of users who rely on the site each and every day to accomplish

(voloda2) Each project using database access solves how to distribute database schema and how to keep it up-to-date after upgrades. I was solving this problem multiple times so I decided to write a common, easy to use and freely available library. The result of this is the DbKeeperNet library.

(Ben Nadel) Yesterday on Twitter, Cody Lindley pointed out that logical operators in Javascript (&& and ||) don’t simply return True or False – they return specific operands used in the logical statement. While I have leveraged this concept in the past with statements like this:

(David J Parsons) This article discusses some of the interplay between two important features of .NET, Event Handling and Garbage Collection. It examines how the use of events and event handlers helps determine an object’s lifetime. The article also looks at what the potential repercussions are when

(Mike Brind) As you delve more into ASP.NET MVC you start to come across a whole new way of doing things that Web Forms development didn’t really expose you to. Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection (DI) are two phrases that crop up a lot in the MVC space. So what are they all about? A

(Mario Hewardt) Manual memory management is a very common source of errors in applications today. As a matter of fact, several online studies indicate that the most common errors are related to manual memory management. Examples of such problems include –Dangling pointers –Double free –Mem