(Scott Mitchell) The previous installments in this article series have demonstrated how to display, group, sort, and page through data using the ListView control. In addition to displaying data, the ListView control also provides support for inserting, updating, and deleting data. If the ListView us

(Scott Guthrie) One of the cool new releases coming out this year is a small download manager – the Microsoft Web Platform Installer – that makes installing and configuring web server and web development stacks really easy. It is a free tool that you can download from the www.microsoft.com/web site

(Sergey Zwezdin) We can see serious movements that took place in the development of applications during the last years. 5-10 years ago the majority of applications were desktop. Today web-applications also become popular.

The GridView is a powerful tool commonly used in web applications. It has features that allow to manipulate data in a lot of ways but sometimes we just need to extend that functionality to go from a GridView that looks like this:

(AzamSharp) Ruby on Rails exposes a very interesting feature which flashes a message on the screen for a brief period. This is called “Flash” in Rails. The main purpose of this feature is to notify the user that something has happened on the page. In this article Mohammad Azam will create a Flash co

SketchFlow, new in Expression Blend 3, provides built-in ‘sketch’ styled controls so you can quickly and easily create prototypes to demonstrate options to your clients for UI flow, screen layout and application transitions before building the application.

(Dave Wells) Data modeling was once a very stable discipline. It focused on relationally organized data and modeled that data as entities, relationships, and attributes. I was a good data modeler in the 1980s and at the top of the game in the early ‘90s. Entities and relationships were easy things,

(Mahesh Chand) This article shows you how to work with a DataGrid control available in Silverlight 2.0. Article also demonstrates some formatting and data binding techniques.

(Nikhil Kothari) I’ve been writing about ViewModel (aka MVVM) pattern (here, here, here and more) and implementing it in Silverlight.FX for quite some time now, and it continues to be an exciting area for further thinking, and prototyping. This time around I want to cover how ViewModel and MVC fit t

(logicchild) When working with an IDE like Visual Studio, most events, particularly those involving Windows Forms applications, are nonlinear. That is, you might have to wait for a user to click a button or press a key to then respond to that event. In server applications, you might have to wait (an