(Eric Kraus) One of the great features in PowerShell 2.0 is the ability to extend .NET object types to add additional custom properties and methods. For instance, the type System.String does not have a property called IsANumber that returns whether or not the string is a number. Typically, you wou

(Brian Mains) ASP.NET AJAX has many helpful features that make developing ASP.NET applications asynchronous. Sometimes though, with the out-of-the-box controls in the ASP.NET framework, it’s hard to tap into the existing control architecture to add custom JavaScript capabilities. Oftentimes, creatin

(Ged Mead) Sometimes it’s the tiniest little changes that make you happy out of all proportion to the size of the change. While testing the WPF features in VS2010 I was totally thrilled to discover that at last when you type in the opening curly brace in the XAML Pane, you get an Intellisense list o

(Ron Laughton) The promise of SOA (Search Oriented Architecture) is to share. Mid-tier SOA requires extra coding and causes an extra data hop. Client side browser based SOA requests are limited because the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest (XHR) does not support cross domain queries at this time.

(Kevin Hoffman) Templated Helpers are one of the new features in ASP.NET MVC 2. The other day, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 came out and some of you may have noticed that it comes pre-equipped with a beta release of ASP.NET MVC 2. In short a templated helper is a way of using various combinations of im

(Edward Elliott) There will come a time that any developer will need to debug an application and will not have access to Visual Studio or, in some cases, even the source code. When debugging a problem on a production web or application server, for example, I really do not want to have to install Vis

(Wayne Citrin) Web services can be very useful for integrating standalone components that communicate across a network. When used with straightforward call/return scenarios involving a very limited number of data types, setting them up and getting them to work is trivial. Because web services are st

(John Mannix) The term particle effects describes a computer animation technique where many small particles are combined to create realistic special effects that would otherwise be difficult to achieve using standard animation techniques. Typical examples of the visual effects that are achieved with

(Scott Guthrie) In today’s blog post I’m going to cover a small but really nice improvement to code intellisense with VS 2010 – which is its ability to better filter type and member code completion. This enables you to more easily find and use APIs when writing code.

(Lior P. Abitbol) In this article, we will discuss the development of a wrapper class for the web.config file in the pursuit of encapsulating the management of configuration settings, producing cleaner code, and most importantly improving design-time support.