(Prashanth Menon) Recently I deployed an ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX application that interfaced with a real-time mailing engine to retrieve content, decode it, and then email the altered content via the same mailing engine. As a result, users of this application had to put up with longer than usual wait times

(Brian Mains) LINQ to SQL is an ORM tool that connects to SQL Server databases. It generates business objects to match a database’s table structures, which are all centrally available through the DataContext class. The LINQ-to-SQL designer creates a custom DataContext class that contains a series of

(Ged Mead) In the previous blog, I created a simple ValueConverter that analyzed the data bound values and set the Foreground color of a TextBlock based on whether the value was less or more than a cut off value of 200 units. In reality, these preset values (such as the 200 in that demonstration) ar

(Benoît Sarie) In my previous post, I explained how to create a ADO.NET Data Service with Visual Studio 2010. In this post, I will explain how to request this Data Service using Internet Explorer (but this will also work in any other browser). The database used in previous post is AdventureWorks.

(Larry Blake) The simplest way of asking questions is to use a MessageBox, and give the user a choice of buttons to press. You can use the optional third parameter to specify what buttons are shown, then test the result. For example:

(Brian Mains) The Accordion control is a flexible control that neatly separates region of the user interface and condenses the overall user interface. This control can support data binding, which I personally didn’t know until recently. The Accordion control supports binding data to the Header and C

(Ged Mead) By the end of the previous blog item on the topic of the WPF ListView, the ListView looked like this:

(Scott Guthrie) This is the eleventh in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post covers WPF 4.

(Sergey Zwezdin) Observing tendency in application development, you can see a clear regularity which shows that a lot of applications have being developed in Internet instead of the desktop way. This tendency is taking place in the last years because of the opportunity to create more interactive web

(Mark Strawmyer) Welcome to this installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column. The prior article focused on the future direction of managed languages and introduced trends that are influencing the future of C# and Visual Basic. It introduced the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) and touched ever so brie