(Scott Mitchell) Flickr is a popular photo-sharing website. Like many “Web 2.0” and “social” websites, Flickr includes a programmatic interface through which other programs and websites can view and manage photos, comments, groups, tags, and other Flickr assets. I recently started work on a website

(Scott Guthrie) Earlier today the ASP.NET team launched a new Microsoft Ajax CDN (Content Delivery Network) service that provides caching support for AJAX libraries (including jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX). The service is available for free, does not require any registration, and can be used for both co

(Justin James) A lambda is a shortcut for writing an anonymous method. Functionally speaking, lambdas serve the same purpose as anonymous functions and have a much cleaner syntax. Lambdas are assigned with the => operator. Lambdas are delegates and can be used in place of them. Lambdas with no retur

(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, when I was building my jQuery selector step-debugger plugin, I was having some trouble with the jQuery map() utility method. I was trying to map (translate) one array into another, in which the resultant array value was, itself, an array; I thought this would simply insert the

(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

(Mickey Gousset) In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we learned about the basics of unit testing with Visual Studio Team System 2008. In this article, we will build off the unit test in Part 1 and Part 2 to make the unit test data driven.

(Scott Guthrie) I’m going to switch from discussing new VS 2010 tooling features and instead do a few posts covering a few new runtime features (don’t worry – I’ll come back to a lot more VS features, I’m just trying to mix things up a bit).

(Ben Nadel) Hi Ben, I have a question:), Is there a way to update a result set that was generated using QuerySetCell. I have a recordset that gets some null values. After the temporary table has been generated, I want to update the empty strings with 0. Is there a way to update query of queries or t

(John Chen) If you have an identity primary key column defined in a database table, its value will be automatically set by the database engine when you insert a new row to the table. The identity value is determined by the column’s Identity Seed and Identity Increment properties.

(Malcolm Sheridan) In part I of this article, Using Silverlight 3 to Detect Network Changes, I showed you how easy it is to detect network changes using Silverlight. That is pretty cool on its own, but it would make more sense to show you a real world example. Well here is part II. I thought it woul