(Dan Wahlin) Expression Blend 3 is a great tool for creating Silverlight or WPF user interfaces using design-time tools and controls. If you haven’t tried version 3 of Expression Blend you’re really missing out, since it adds a ton of new time-saving features.

(Scott Mitchell) As discussed in An Introduction to LINQ, one of the cornerstones of LINQ is the standard query operators, which are a set of extension methods on the IEnumerable interface added to the .NET Framework version 3.5. The standard query operators can be applied to any enumeration – any c

(Eric Newcomer) What’s this I’m hearing about ACID vs BASE? Is there really a more scalable alternative for ACID transactions? (R)

(Fernando Martinez-Campos) Traditionally, business analysts on business intelligence projects have spent their days interviewing, analyzing and organizing their work in what I call a document-centric manner. The documents in question are maintained with the usual office automation software, such as

(Satheesh Babu) Most often we will get a requirement to capture date input from the users. Normally, we can do this with a textbox and asking user to input the date in a particular format using a help text near by the textbox. We will also have validation function that validates the inputted date fo

(Phil Haack) While in a meeting yesterday with “The Gu”, the topic of automatic views came up. Imagine if you could simply instantiate a model object within a controller action, return it to the “view”, and have ASP.NET MVC provide simple scaffolded edit and details views for the model automatically

(Ben Nadel) Over the weekend, for funzies, I was taking some of my standard SQL and converting it over to use ColdFusion 9’s new ORM functionality. SQL is really easy for me to think about and ORM is very new, so I thought translating some use-cases would help me get adjusted to the new mentality. A

(Puran Mehra) ADO.NET is designed to help developers work efficiently with multi tier databases, across intranet or Internet scenarios.

(Jeff Cogswell) I’ve done a few articles recently about JavaScript. Why? Because as we develop for the web, more and more of our development is moving to the client side. Even for us ASP.NET programmers, we need to know the browser-side language, which is usually JavaScript.

(Rod Stephens) When many developers think of WPF (if they think of it at all), they think of user interfaces and controls, such as panels that fly on and off the screen, icons that swirl around to show relationships among pieces of data, and gratuitously spinning buttons that make funny noises when