(Mahesh Chand) A graphics path is a set of connected lines, curves, and other simple graphics objects. This article demonstrates how to use a Path control in Silverlight using XAML and C#.

(Srinath M) When editing in Visual Studio, you would normally write a MessageBox.Show or a Console.Writeline to log the value of a variable. But you can eliminate that work now. Instead, try taking advange of a new debugging feature in Visual Studio 2008 called “Tracepoints.”

(Vince Varallo) The free version of Crystal Reports that comes with Visual Studio allows you to create professional looking reports within your application and can polish up a line of business applications to make it look professional. This article will build an invoice for the AdventureWorks sample

(Laurent Duveau) Here is a sample we made at RunAtServer using Silverlight 3 Perspective 3D feature and the new Navigation API to create a nice navigation flip!

(Nicolas Brassard) In this article, I’ll show how to get a random subset of data from a DataTable. This is useful when you already have queries that are filtered correctly but returns all the rows.

(Mahesh Chand) The MultiScaleImage object is used to view MultiScaleImages in XAML and Silverlight. The Source property of the MultiScaleImage is used to specify the location of the MultiScaleImage. This property can be an absolute URL or a relative URL. The following code snippet views a jpg file u

(bengtbe) In projects that have complex domain models it is often necessary to map the domain models to simpler objects such as Data Transfer Objects (DTO) which is “an object that carries data between processes in order to reduce the number of method calls” or Presentation Models which “represent t

(Neil FitzGerald) This chapter covers the basics of OLAP, OLAP concepts and OLAP reporting, recently added or changed OLAP features in Crystal Reports, using the OLAP Report Creation Wizard and OLAP Expert, advanced OLAP reporting, troubleshooting, and Crystal Reports in the real world.

(Suprotim Agarwal) A few days ago, Malcolm Sheridan wrote a cool article about Creating Dynamic ASP.NET SiteMap using LINQ. In this article, I will show you how to ‘query’ the ASP.NET SiteMap using LINQ. The intention of this article is to demonstrate the power and simplicity of querying an XML docu

(Kenneth Downs) If you look at any system that was born on and for the internet, like Ruby on Rails, or the PHP language, you find an immense wealth of resources on the internet itself, in endless product web sites, blogs, and forums. But when you look for the same comprehensive information on produ