(Malcolm Sheridan) A couple of months ago I did an article on how to Efficiently Server Side Paging with the ASP.NET GridView Control. I thought I’d focus some articles on using the ASP.NET 3.5 ListView control, which I find useful when I need to totally customise the look and feel of the UI. I thou

(Peter Vogel) In last week’s column, I looked at .NET RIA Services and spent some time on the server-side, ASP.NET part of the technology. This week, I’m going to look at the client-side, Silverlight portion.

(Sridhar M S) Imagine this scenario the day before releasing your software. While doing some final rounds of verification, your team discovers the nightmare of ClassCastException in the java.lang package. This typically occurs when you try to type cast entities of different types. For example, assig

(Ged Mead) I’m a big fan of WPF and WinForms Interop, so have often advised people to try the ElementHost when they want to do something graphically complex on a Windows Form. This useful little container allows you to create a WPF UserControl right there inside the WinForms project and then display

(Ben Nadel) When you use the ORM features in ColdFusion 9, ColdFusion has to create a number of Hibernate configuration files and component mappings. These configurations are created when the application starts up (either running for the first time, having timed out, or being stopped manually with A

(Scott Guthrie) The ASP.NET team just released the first public preview of ASP.NET MVC Version 2. You can download it here.

(Bill Wagner) The .NET world has decided that exceptions are the way to report and propagate errors. Error codes, HRESULTs and other less-intrusive mechanisms are relegated to the past. They were easily ignored, causing cascading application errors. When users finally realized an application wasn’t

(David Hayden) One thing that may not be obvious is that the Controller Class in the ASP.NET MVC Framework is an ActionFilter. In actuality, it is not only an ActionFilter ( IActionFilter), but also a ResultFilter ( IResultFilter ), AuthorizationFilter ( IAuthorizationFilter ), and ExceptionFilter (

(Scott Mitchell) The Microsoft Chart Controls enable developers to specify chart data in a number of ways. Chart data may be specified statically via the Chart Web control’s declarative markup. Chart data may also be specified programmatically using a variety of techniques. For starters, you can add

(Mamta M) One of the new exciting features in Silverlight 3 is pixel shader effects. These effects can be applied to any user interface element on the Silverlight UI.