(Eugenio Pace) Recently a Customer asked me if an application using RIA Services could use WIF. I’m fairly new to RIA Services so I didn’t know the answer right away, however I suspected the integration should not be too hard, so I spend a couple of days spiking a solution.

(Shailendra Singh Chauhan) It’s common to show records from database table with GridView in ASP.Net. Once we disply records, we need to do some actions which will be applied to one, many or all records,lets say “Bulk Actions”. So we need to have a way to select records ( one or many or all ), and pe

(Sean Rhone) This is a very basic introduction on using the new functionality released with .NET 3.5.1 SP1 which introduces a new DLL, System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations. This new DLL allows you to add attributes to your object properties to enforce validation instead of the normal ASP.NET valida

(Ben Nadel) If you need to get an anscestor of a given element, jQuery’s parents() method is really useful. Not only will it crawl up through the DOM tree, it allows you to supply a jQuery selector that can filter the collection of parent nodes that is returned. This works in most cases; however, wh

(Bob Clegg) All this information is available in pieces in various places, but perhaps gathering it all together will simplify the process. The following may not be the most elegant solution, but it works.

(Matt Gertz) In my last post, I talked about the hidden costs that can occur whenever you call out to methods, particularly in loops. In looking at my examples, reader KG2V commented that another thing that folks need to be aware of is avoiding the assumption that the world (or, in this case, a lis

(Marc Plotz) Pagination is something I always find to be a rather painful and mind-numbing process. Most of the time I am much more concerned about actual processes going on rather than some little links that are just going to make navigation somewhat easier and pageloads smaller. But the fact is th

(Scott Guthrie) This is the first in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.

(Ben Nadel) The ease with which we can bind events to DOM elements using jQuery is a huge part of what makes jQuery so awesome. But, as with many things that are wired-up programmatically, when something doesn’t work, it can be hard to figure out where it went wrong. One cool tip that I picked up re

(Rod Stephens) WPF’s XAML language defines the controls that make up a user interface. Typically, some kind of container control such as a Grid or StackPanel fills the window. In turn, that container holds other controls, such as Labels, TextBoxes, Buttons, Sliders, and so forth.