(Sergey Andreyev) Our applications are populated with the objects of an arbitrary form and size. The view of any application (at least, the initial view) is predetermined at the design stage. The developers try their best to design the programs that would have the best view for any user, but each us

One of the pitfalls with the abundance of classes that .NET provides is not picking the right class for the job. The right selection is especially important when performance is a consideration. In this article, I will use a tool called MeasureIt and walk you through rapidly benchmarking various cla

(Rohit Sinha) One of the features of ASP.NET 4.0 is built-in support for Bi-directional URL Routing. With VS 2010 Beta 1 out for sometime, I dig into more details with some hands-on work. In this article I will show the implementation of URL routing with .NET framework 4 Beta 1. It will also cover b

(Mike Brind) Building on my previous article, which looked at adding data with one-to-many and many-to-many relationships via the Entity Framework, here’s a look at how to modify that data within an ASP.NET MVC application.

(Ged Mead) In the first WPF ListView blog of this set, I used XML data binding and added some basic formatting to the Column Headers of the ListView. In the previous blog, a collection of objects was used as the data source. The formatting in that second example was a bit plain. So, in this blog I w

(Scott Guthrie) Today’s post covers another useful improvement in VS 2010 – HTML/ASP.NET/JavaScript snippet support. Snippets allow you to be more productive within source view by allowing you to create chunks of code and markup that you can quickly apply and use in your application with a minimum

(Scott Mitchell) The ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel provides a quick and easy way to implement a snappier, AJAX-based user interface in an ASP.NET WebForm. In a nutshell, Web controls within the UpdatePanel that would normally cause a full page postback trigger a partial page postback, instead. For exampl

(Gavin Fu) Hierarchical update is an important feature of typed dataset that refers to the process of saving updated data back to a database while maintaining referential integrity rules. This feature is enhanced in Visual Studio 2008 by introducing a TableAdapterManger component to manage all Table

(Scott Guthrie) Today’s post covers a new “Web Development (Code Optimized)” profile option we are introducing with VS 2010 that allows you to optionally configure Visual Studio to run in an IDE layout mode that hides the WYSIWYG web designer and instead optimizes around a rich “source editing focus

(Satheesh Babu) LINQ stands for Language Integrated Query. LINQ is a data querying methodology that provides querying capabilities to .Net languages which have similar syntax like SQL query. LINQ has a set of querying operators that can be used to query in memory object collection, Sql database, XM