(Somasegar) Designing new functionality on existing applications can be daunting. There are always differences between the original design and the current implementation.

(Srinath MS) Compression has become an integral design step for almost any modern programming design, because serialized data compression is a well-supported and logical step toward significant performance gains, and reducing the costs of network traffic.

(Ged Mead) In a previous Blog, I showed how to databind an XML file to a WPF ListView. As some people are more comfortable with collections of objects than they are with XML, in this blog item I thought we could look at binding to a collection.

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

(Peter Vogel) This week’s column continues a series I began three columns ago, looking at how to build a page that displays multiple data items extracted from a single text property. In this article, I’ll provide a way to handle inserting new data from a GridView. I’ve broken this column into two pa

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

(Ged Mead) A recent question here on VBCity came from a member who was searching for a way of changing the background color, font and border of the Column Headers in a ListView. This has always been a particularly tough call in Windows Forms. (A DataGridView, on the other hand, does have this featu

(Erik Reitan) The two ASP.NET Controls for Silverlight (the MediaPlayer control and the Silverlight control) were removed from the Silverlight 3 SDK. There are alternative ways to get the functionality that these controls provided in Silverlight 3, but if you wish to continue using these ASP.NET con

(Mark Strawmyer) Welcome to this installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column! The focus of this article will be on sharing items learned from various conferences and sources about the near term plans for managed languages. Specifically, we will focus on the plans for C# and Visual Basic. We will exa

(Scott Mitchell) The .NET Framework is big. Really big. The System.Web assembly, which contains the guts of ASP.NET, is comprised of nearly 2,000 types, over 23,000 methods, and more than 12,500 properties. And that’s not counting any of the functionality added to ASP.NET since version 2.0. ASP.NET