(Igor Ostrovsky) The goal of PLINQ is to execute computationally intensive LINQ to Objects queries efficiently by splitting up the work across multiple cores on multi-core machines. However, not all queries are equally appropriate for parallelism.

(Ged Mead) If you have read any of my previous ListView blogs, you will know that formatting the ListView is mostly a matter of creating templates and styles for the various sub-elements. The same applies if you want to do something to differentiate one row from another. For instance, you might to h

(John Charles Olamendy) In this article, I will cover how to call external assemblies from maps in BizTalk through a simple example of an external assembly which implements the logic of string concatenation. This is a common scenario when the business logic is contained in an assembly and we want to

(Ben Nadel) Most of the time, when creating a plugin in jQuery, I’ll leverage built-in functions like filter() and each() to select from or alter the current collection. Plugins that are built in this fashion are auto-wired to have the appropriate stack connections; that is, since jQuery performs no

(Scott Guthrie) This is the twelfth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post covers a small, but nice, change coming with VS 2010 – an “Add Reference” dialog that loads fast.

(Scott Mitchell) Each series in a chart is composed of a set of data points, which are modeled via the DataPoint class. For most chart types, the two key attributes of a data point are its X and Y value. For example, in a line chart the X value indicates the position of the data point along the X ax

(Peter Vogel) On occasion, what the user enters into the controls on the page isn’t enough — sometimes the user needs to give you a complete file. The reverse is also true: Sometimes sending the user a page isn’t enough: you need to get a whole file down to the user’s computer.

(Eric Landes) As mentioned earlier this year in the first installation of this article series, it can be useful to have information on the performance of our BI tools. The purpose of this load testing article is to give some understanding into where caching can help improve performance.

(Ged Mead) Each of my previous blog items on WPF ListViews has mostly used a collection of DrinkProduct objects as the data source. This collection is bound to the Window via a DataContext and the individual columns are bound to fields in the collection. (As an alternative, this blog looked at the X

(Ben Nadel) One thing that I find intriguing about inheritance in Javascript is that it is object-based. Meaning, you inherent from an actual object instance, not from a class. This is known as Prototypal inheritance, sometimes referred as differential inheritance, in which your class contains only