(Mahesh Chand) The Silverlight Toolkit released on November 2008 comes with a data visualization assembly called Microsoft.Windows.Controls.DataVisualization.dll that hosts the functionality related to charts in Silverlight. This article demonstrates how to draw charts using the Silverlight Toolkit

(Ben Nadel) Recently, there has been a lot of talk in the development community about jQuery’s new live() event method. People are just in love with it. If you have not heard of jQuery’s live() method, it’s an event delegation mechanism that allows you to bind event handlers not just to all existing

This document provides a detailed and in-depth tour of support in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 for parallel programming. This includes an examination of common parallel patterns and how they’re implemented without and with this new support in the .NET Framework, as well as covering best practices

(Ged Mead) XAML is brilliant for creating user interfaces at design time, but if you need to make changes dynamically at runtime, this can sometimes be a problem. To take an example, let’s say that you need to allow an Image to move to a different location on screen in response to some user action.

(Carlo Colombo) I recently got questions from a couple of customers on the implications of using generic types (generics) in .NET on code bloat (also known as code explosion).

(Tom Janssens) This article will give you a quick introduction on how to get started with BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) in .NET. It also contains a direct hands-on example using one of the .NET BDD frameworks. There is a lot of extra info in this article, but of course, you are free to skip the

(Mahesh Chand) If you are looking for a GridView control in WPF, you will be disappointed. WPF does not have a GridView control. But the good news is you can achieve GridView like functionality with a ListView control available in WPF.

(Malcolm Sheridan) I’ve said this once and I’ll say it again, jQuery is cool. Something on the web that is very helpful to users when filling out HTML forms is for you, the developer, to give them help along the way. I thought it would be cool to use jQuery to show help tooltips when the user clicks

(Ged Mead) The Windows Forms ListView is designed to display data. You can use a simple text file as the data source of a Windows Forms ListView. Let’s start with a scenario where you have a txt file that contains the data. Each line of the text file represents one row of data to be displayed in the

(Vince Varallo) This is the sixth article of a series that uses ASP.NET and Crystal Reports to build reports using the Adventure Works Sample Database. Before reading this article it would be helpful to have read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, or Part 5 but it is not required. This article will c