(Dan Wahlin) Silverlight is capable of consuming data from a variety of sources including REST APIs, ASMX services, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services and other standards-compliant services. In my previous article, I discussed how Silverlight’s WebClient class could be used to communica

(Matt Goebel and Rachel Baker) There is often a requirement in business applications to display charts to analyze data and create reports to document and distribute results from an application. Microsoft has developed several tools to meet these needs. Visual Studio comes with a Report type and a Re

(Deepankar Sinha) When an ASP.NET resource file includes newline characters (n) as part of a string value, the embedded newlines don’t show up correctly on the client side. The solution is to use the special defined character Environment.NewLine in your server-side code.

(John Charles Olamendy) This article is intended to illustrate how to implement the master-detail presentation pattern using the ObjectDataSource components and DropDownList Web control. Master-detail presentation pattern is one of the techniques most used in enterprise applications intended to visu

(Satheesh Babu) ListView is a new databound control that is shipped with ASP.Net 3.5. Read my previous article – ListView Control in ASP.Net 3.5 which elaborates the usage of this new control. ListView control is one of the most flexible databound control that can be used to present the data in

(Scott Hanselman) It’s getting considerably easier to create and distribute Visual Studio Extensions. With Visual Studio 2008, you can find extensions at the Visual Studio Gallery. There’s also a very good VSX (Visual Studio Extensibility) Developer Center on MSDN that has a ridiculous amount of in

(Ed Tittel) Anybody who’s ever had to code JavaScript for public access sites knows what a headache it can be to make that scripting language behave as needed in IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome. I’m sure others have wished, as I have, for a one-script-fits-all form of JavaScript that would cur

(Scott Mitchell) The ASP.NET Toolbox includes two Web controls for managing users’ passwords: the ChangePassword control and the PasswordRecovery control. The ChangePassword control allows a user signed into the site to change their password by entering their existing password and their new, desired

(Maarten Balliauw) Ever since the release of ASP.NET MVC and its routing engine (System.Web.Routing), Microsoft has been trying to convince us that you have full control over your URL and routing. This is true to a certain extent: as long as it’s related to your application path, everything works ou

(Chris Bennett) ASP.NET 3.5 introduces a new attribute called “ScriptService” in the System.Web.Script.Services namespace. A ScriptService makes it easy to call a web service decorated with the WebService attribute from JavaScript. Applying the ScriptService attribute to a WebService causes it to ac