(Mahesh Sabnis) I hope most of you are by now aware that in .NET 4.0, there have been some major changes made in Windows Workflow 4.0. Most of the activities of WF 3.x are now changed by new activities. In this article, we will see how a workflow can be designed using procedural activities, how inpu

(Arnold Matusz) Choosing the right type of menu for a website is not easy at all. The ASP.NET Menu Control is definitely NOT a good starting point due to the horrendous markup it renders, nor is it good for SEO because of the Markup/Content ratio, neither can it be easily styled.

(James Wu) Silverlight is a new and powerful browser plug-in that works with Mac OS, Windows and Linux. It helps you create rich web application that is safe, secure and scalable cross-platform. This article will use Visual Studio 2008 to create Silverlight pop search form control.

(Jayadev D) The BackgroundWorker class in the System.ComponentModel namespace (in the .NET Framework 2.0 and later) lets you launch time-consuming operations on a separate thread, which helps keep your user interface (UI) responsive. In contrast, running long time-consuming operations on the main th

(David Hayden) I can’t tell you how excited I am about templated helpers in ASP.NET MVC 2.0. Templated Helpers are subject to change and naming when ASP.NET MVC 2.0 is officially released as a part of Visual Studio 2010, but in ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Preview 1 they are roughly the Html.LabelFor, Html.Displ

(Mike) Pretty much every web site on the Internet features a form for users to provide feedback via email to site owners. This site is no different. Migrating to ASP.NET MVC requires a slightly different approach to that used by Web Forms development, so this article looks at one way to implement a

(Brian Mains) If you’ve worked with ASP.NET AJAX and used the AJAX control toolkit, you may have noticed the Accordion control. This control provides an expandable and collapsible view of accordion panels within the accordion control. By clicking on the header expands or collapses that accordion pan

(Mamta M) As you would know by now, one of the basic controls provided by Silverlight is the CheckBox control. This article will demonstrate how to design the look of the CheckBox in Blend and add event handler code for it using Blend and Silverlight.

(Brian Mains) Silverlight uses an XML-based structure for setting up its user interface. Silverlight builds user interfaces differently than ASP.NET does, and this can be challenging if the developer comes from an environment without any Silverlight or WPF knowledge. In this article, we’ll examine s

(Jeffrey Juday) Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) is part of the CCR and DSS Toolkit. If you have an MSDN license you can download the CCR and DSS Toolkit. CCR was originally built for coordinating and prioritizing workloads in Robotics software.