(Ged Mead) In this article, we will look at how to alter the background color that appears when a user selects an item in a WPF ListBox.

(NinethSense) In this article, I tried to explain how to use an ordinary ASP.NET WebService to use with Adobe Flex. I used the flex tag to make this work. Basic knowledge in Flex is important to understand this article.

(Niladri Biswas) In many asp.net applications, we use the GridView control for displaying data. It is a very helpful control and powerful indeed.

(Colin Eberhardt) This blog posts describes a technique for associating multiple bindings with a single dependency property within Silverlight applications. WPF already has this functionality in the form of MultiBindings, the code in this post emulates this function.

(Peter Vogel) Validators are terrific controls but the ones that come with ASP.NET are, well, limited. For most business logic, developers either use the CustomValidator (which lets you insert your own validation code) or bypass the Validator controls altogether which means writing a lot of code tha

(Tess Ferrandez) Recently I had a case where the customer had an issue with session variables. The claim was that if they use in-proc session state their session variables would work just fine, but if they changed the session mode to stateserver in web.config their sessions were lost.

(Ged Mead) If you have used WPF, you will be familiar with the concept of Triggers, a mechanism that allows for properties to be changed in reaction to some activity or state. Silverlight 2 takes a different approach and uses States. In this context, the State of an element represents its look at a

(Josh Berkus) A lot of developers these days tell me that the “denormalized their database for performance.” Rarely is this statement backed up with any real information; the developer generally (a) doesn’t know what normalization actually is, and (b) hasn’t tested anything. SQL-DBMSes, as a rule, a

(Steve C. Orr) Some hardcore developers prefer to write their code with Notepad rather than deal with the sometimes sluggish performance of Visual Studio. However, the majority of .NET developers clearly appreciate the powerful interactive design-time development experience that Visual Studio can pr

(Colin Eberhardt) This blog posts describes a technique for associating multiple bindings with a single dependency property within Silverlight applications. WPF already has this functionality in the form of MultiBindings, the code in this post emulates this function.