(Thiru Thangarathinam) Almost any application requires some sort of workflow, where the application performs one or more actions through processes made up of multiple activities. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) lets developers create these workflows using a rich set of activities that are very easy

(Nipun Tomar) The ASP.NET GridView control is the successor to the v1.x DataGrid, adding the ability to take advantage of specific capabilities of ASP.NET data source controls. Whereas the v1.x DataGrid required a page developer to write custom code to handle simple operations such as paging, sortin

(Peter Vogel) A few months ago, I wrote an article on Silverlight 3 for Visual Studio Magazine, the point of which was to show how new features in Silverlight 3 allowed developers to decorate their client-side objects with lots of new attributes that supported standard business-related activities (p

(Thomas Zang) Nowadays .NET has become a mainstream programming platform. To be inline with PowerBuilder’s .NET deployment and .NET development strategy, the PowerScript language will be enhanced to be a true CLS-compliant .NET language in PowerBuilder 12. Users will be able to consume and extend an

(Brad Abrams) I have gotten lots of good comments on my series updating my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”. Some customers have asked about the “live” version I have running on one of Scott Haneslman’s servers (thanks Scott!)

(John Papa) I am often asked by developers whether the ADO.NET DataReader or the DataSet is the better tool. Some developers say the DataReader is better because it is lightweight, while still others say they prefer the DataSet for its inherent flexibility. The truth is that both have their place in

(Jayaram Krishnaswamy) If you wanted to break a statement in VB (even in VS 2008) you had to place an underscore to continue the statement on another line. If you did not you would get build errors.

(Laurent Duveau) As you know Silverlight 3 is released, among the new features, one of the first things you’ll notice is the disappearance of the asp:Silverlight control. This server control was available with Silverlight 2 to help you insert Silverlight app in ASP.NET pages. This asp:Silverlight co

(Malcolm Sheridan) With Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3 released, I thought it would be an opportune time to go through one of the coolest features in Blend 3. The feature is Make Into Control and is available when you draw shapes in Blend 3. This gives you the ability to draw any shape and tur

(Mahesh Chand) The ScrollBar tag in XAML represents a WPF ScrollBar control.