(Ivan Towlson) One of the cool features of LINQ is that it allows you to write your queries in terms of familiar .NET methods and have LINQ automatically translate them into the necessary SQL. For example, you can write something like this:

(Rod Stephens) The previous article on WPF 3D development showed examples that all use relatively simple single-color materials. The material’s brush determines its color. But WPF also allows you to make materials using brushes that are not simple colors. The following list summarizes the kinds of b

(Mamta M) Imagine that you just clicked a picture with a digital camera or cellphone. Now you decide to create an image for it using the Image control of Silverlight 3. But if your image is really large (most cameras and cellphones these days offer great megapixel capabilities) then the Image contro

(Ged Mead) In the two previous articles we covered the basics of Fields, Properties and Constructors. This article looks at another Class Member – Method.

(Tess Ferrandez) I came back from a long vacation today and I’ve finally caught up with enough emails to do something useful with my day.

(David Hayden) In my last post, I talked about how ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Preview 1 has built-in support for validating classes using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations:

(Brian Mains) Dundas charts is a popular charting tool that embeds pie, bar, line, and more charts into a web or windows applicatin. For the web, Dundas generates the charts on the server and serves up images to the client in the browser. This works well in the web environment, which relies upon the

(Malcolm Sheridan) Master pages were introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 and are a great way to create a consistent layout for the pages throughout your application. I thought a good article would be to demonstrate how to create a custom event that web content pages can raise if they click on web server contr

(drummerboy0511) If you’ve used the past two versions of Visual Basic (2005 and 2008), then you have most likely heard of, if not used, the My namespace. The My namespace is, in a sentence, a very fast way to access many common .NET functions. What could take many lines of code in raw .NET could be

(Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce) Object-Orientation is more about the communication between objects than it is about the objects themselves. As Alan Kay [Kay1998] wrote: The big idea is "messaging" […] The key in making great and growable systems is much more to design how its modules communicate