(Tom) There are times where you want to use a stored procedure that doesn’t return just normal rows out of a database. One classic example is if you are doing Full-Text Searching and want to return the Rank.

(Arnold Matusz) When the ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit first came out with the CalendarExtender, I just loved it. That smooth transition when navigating from month to month or year to year really won me over. I’ve also loved how I could use it as a simple ASP.NET Control by integrating it in my pages

(Chris Maunder) In web development it is often important to know which browser is viewing the page you are serving. Traditional ASP applications used the Browser Capabilities object that resides in the system32inetsrvbrowscap.dll DLL. This object takes the User Agent string that a browser sends t

(Rafay Ali) ASP .NET has a fast and easy way to take an application offline using a reserved file called App_Offline.htm. When ASP.NET services any application request, if it finds a file named App_Offline.htm in the application’s root directory, it serves the contents of that file rather than the t

(Walt Ritscher) Dig through the .NET class libraries for a few minutes and you’ll find collections (islands) of static data. For example, the Fonts class exposes two static properties, Fonts.SystemFontFamilies and Fonts.SystemTypefaces, which are useful for enumerating the installed fonts on the sys

(Jeffrey Juday) My last article explained why a developer chooses a Domain Specific Language (DSL) and how an M DSL can be incorporated into a Windows application. The article was a starting point for a Visual Studio developer interested in DSLs, M, the Oslo SDK, and how all the components collabora

(Scott Mitchell) Last week’s article – Dynamically Generating and Caching Images in ASP.NET with the GeneratedImage Control – looked at how to programmatically create and cache images on the fly using the GeneratedImage control, one of a suite of “Futures” technologies found in the ASP.NET Team’s Co

(Mahesh Chand) This article demonstrates how to use a linear gradient brush in Silverlight using XAML and C#.

(David Hayden) I mentioned earlier how I just finished Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Framework. One of the tips in the book mentioned the concept of Implicit Action Results.

(Peter Vogel) While Silverlight 1 and 2 concentrated on helping developers deliver rich Internet applications (RIAs), coders building line-of-business (LOB) applications had little to cheer about. The limited support for data binding and data validation complicated basic data management tasks in LOB