(Steve Wellens) Usually, when you think of a Web Service, you think …make the call, get the response, and get on with the task at hand. These “one shot” calls are the norm in Web Services but there may be times when you need a little more. You may need the Web Service to remember states between call

(Mamta M) As you would know by now, one of the basic controls provided by Silverlight is the CheckBox control. This article will demonstrate how to design the look of the CheckBox in Blend and add event handler code for it using Blend and Silverlight.

(Konstantin Goldobin) A picture is worth a thousand words. We all have heard this saying a countless number of times. But what if you don’t understand what is drawn in the picture? I was approached once with a request to review requirements specifications for some module. The document contained a sc

(Laurent Duveau) By default in Silverlight a user can launch the same animation several times, even if the animation is not finished. Side effects: the animation starts again and your code (if any) runs twice. Sometimes this can be annoying.

(Justin) Tab menus are a fairly common thing that I use in a lot of my applications. I like tabs because they help break up large chunks of, usually, related information.

(AdamNThompson) This is a generic data access component I wrote in VB.NET to simplify some of the common tasks used to work with data using ADO.NET and MS SQL Server 2005. The class contains methods to perform non-queries (Update, Insert, and Delete), and it contains methods to return a SqlDataReade

(Stephen Walther) Recently, I noticed a nice pattern in the Nerd Dinner application. Nerd Dinner uses strongly typed view model classes to pass data from a controller to a view. This pattern provides you with a convenient way of representing complex view data.

(Eric Schoneveld) This is a simple run through on how to create a fancy search box, that has suggestions underneath the input box, and that also can do autocomplete. For this example I used the Chinook database from codeplex and the Artists table and the autocomplete jquery plug-in that you can find

(John Charles Olamendy) A common scenario in a BizTalk solution is to subscribe to a message based on its content or context and make decisions based on the underlying values. This is known as content-based routing. In this article, I will cover the principles and techniques to expose this sort of m

(Nikhil Kothari) Earlier today I saw a comment about adding mouse wheel support for Silverlight apps and controls in the form of a behavior. I thought I’d put together a sample of a using the MouseWheelScroll behavior that already exists in Silverlight.FX. Its really quite straightforward… just at