(Malcolm Sheridan) Earlier this year I created an article on Efficient Server Side Paging with the ASP.NET Gridview control. I recently had to use the Repeater control with large amounts of data, and the only way to do this properly is to page through the data. Out of the box the Repeater control do

(Karl E. Peterson) Okay, time for another rant. I have a few applications that drive me nuts when I fire them up. Not enough to uninstall and be done with them (until I find a better functional replacement, anyway). But they certainly vex me enough to make me growl quietly while I wait for them to i

(Avtandil Garakanidze) One of the main concerns among IT architects planning an implementation of an enterprise data virtualization layer in their service-oriented architecture (SOA) or overall information system is the performance of the participating data services. Performance becomes particularly

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

(Ged Mead) One small but sometimes useful new feature that was bundled with Service Pack 1 (SP1) of Visual Studio 2008 is the Splash Screen feature of WPF. This enables you to create an image file which is then used as splash while the main application spins up and loads.

(Robin_Roy) Version Control is the most integral part of software development. All of us use version control systems in some or other form. As part of my article series on VSTS 2008, let me share the version control features available with VSTS 2008 in this article. Version Control is one of the ele

(Xianzhong Zhu) With the web development technology maturing, RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) are preferred to by more and more people. After many years of silence, under the situation that Flash nearly dominates the Internet world, Microsoft is unwilling to lag far behind, against many deficienci

(Andersen) This article and the sample project attached shows techniques to create a custom WPF window style. It was developed on the .Net 3.5 Framework with VS 2005.

(Suprotim Agarwal) In this short and simple article, we will explore 5 different ways of expanding and collapsing an ASP.NET Panel using jQuery. Sometime back, I had covered a similar article where I demonstrated how to create a Smooth Cascading Effect with ASP.NET Panels using jQuery.

(Kern Handa) When deploying PHP web applications that handle their errors with their own error pages, the existingResponse for Custom Error Pages feature of IIS should be set to “PassThrough” for that particular site. This greatly improves the customer experience when accessing your new application,