(Alberto Venditti) I had the need to use a ListBox control in a Silverlight 2 project to display many items (there were about 1500 players’ names), and I faced some big performance problems: when binding the ListBox (just setting its ItemSource property), it takes more and more seconds to render the

(Mahesh Chand) The RepeatButton XAML element represents a WPF RepeatButton control.

(Dave Ward) As jQuery’s popularity in the .NET community has risen over the past year, one recurring theme I’ve seen is the desire to refactor away the details of using it to call ASP.NET AJAX services. Whether through helper function or specialized jQuery plugin, I’ve seen numerous methods proposed

(Peter Vogel) Databinding to tables in single-tier applications has always been easy. ASP.NET’s ObjectDataSource does something wonderful: It makes databinding to business objects in n-tier applications just as easy.

(Brad Abrams) As you may have heard, we recently shipped MEF support of Silverlight in our CodePlex drop.. I wanted to give you a very simple introduction to MEF and how to use it in Silverlight. This example will show how to use lose coupling, dependency injection and delay loading of components

(Malcolm Sheridan) Recently Suprotim Agarwal wrote a cool article on GridView UI Tips and Tricks using jQuery. In one of his examples, he demonstrated how to highlight a row in a GridView. I thought I would take Suprotim’s example one step further and demonstrate how to perform a postback once you h

(Jayaram Krishnaswamy) In this article (Part 2) the MS Chart control will be bound to the SqlDataSource created in Part 1. The chart can be bound to the data at design time without writing any code. Also, the MS Chart’s methods and properties will be used to format the chart as well as rendering a 2

(Harish Ranganathan) If you have played with the ADO.NET Data Service, you can experience how quickly you can build RESTful Services using the Entity Model and then consume them as you would do it with WCF Services. The ADO.NET Data Services offer more flexibility in terms of granular data URIs com

(Vince Varallo) This is the third article of a series that uses ASP.NET and Crystal Reports to build reports using the Adventure Works Sample Database. Before reading this article it would be helpful to have read Part 1 and Part 2, but it is not required. This article focuses on redeveloping the Inv

(Jonas Fagerberg) For this tutorial you need to have the Northwind database installed on your SQL Server. If you don’t have the database you can download it from the following address.