(Susan Sales Harkins and Charlotte Foust) Many MS Access and SQL Server developers are moving to .NET. It’s a natural migration because these developers can use .NET to create the same types of solutions they would in either database, but there’s much more to .NET than your ordinary database. After

(Scott) Databinding is a mechanism for moving the data from objects into UI controls. In this article, we’ll look at the databinding capabilities of Silverlight, including binding expressions, data templates, converters, binding modes, and validation. We’ll also go beyond the data binding mechanics

(Gil Shabat) There is no glamour in building secure ASP.NET web applications. The vast majority of developers I’ve met would much rather focus on building new & flashy features that can impress their managers and end-users. Even though security can usually take a backseat during the initial stages o

(Peter Vogel) In responses to my previous user interface rant, some readers pointed out how important it is that your UI support “experts.”

(Eric Swann) In a previous post, I had proposed an idea on how to control the lifetime of the DataContext in LINQ to SQL (L2S). I basically created a provider class that would detect the presence of an HttpContext. If the context was present, it would use the HttpContext and store the DataContext

(David Hayden) Not a day goes by that I don’t get all giddy about the extensibility of the ASP.NET MVC Framework. Case in point, authorization in the ASP.NET MVC Framework. At the most basic level we have the AuthorizeAttribute that allows you to secure controller actions.

(John Charles Olamendy) Visual SourceSafe 2005 (VSS) is a source or version control system implemented as a client/server application creating a virtual library of files which acts as storage file system. This virtual library can be accessed through the VSS client tools (VSS windows client, VSS comm

(Jon Galloway) We’d been getting sporadic reports of high CPU usage in Witty (a WPF Twitter client). I’d tried running the application in debug mode for a while and could never get it to occur, but finally I saw it happening while I was running a release build (keep in mind that 53% is indicating th

(Mike) There appear to be many articles showing how to use jQuery with ASP.NET Web Services around, but the vast majority of them illustrate the use of PageMethods that return a single value – typically “Hello World!” or the current date and time. Not much use in the real world, where you may more o

(Scott Mitchell) Web applications commonly exchange information between the client (the browser) and the server (the ASP.NET application). In traditional web applications, this communication is usually insinuated when the visitor submits a form. This prompts the browser to re-request the page, sendi