(Richard Blythe) This article demonstrates how you can effectively create your own dropdown control with much greater flexibility than by trapping the Paint event of the Windows standard: ComboBox. Most of the free custom drop-down controls I’ve seen, are not what they’re cracked up to be. Many of t

(Mahesh Chand) A ViewBox control resizes itself based on the size of the contents. This article demonstrates how to work with a Silverlight ViewBox control.

(Hatim Rih) From the comments on my previous articles on .Net RIA Services and from the search queries that lead to those articles, a pattern of a recurring set of questions showed up and I am sure that most .Net RIA Services enthusiasts face the same issues.

(Maarten Balliauw) Last week, I blogged about all stuff that is included in the ASP.NET MVC Futures assembly, which is an assembly available on CodePlex and contains possible future features (tonguetwister!) for the ASP.NET MVC framework. One of the comments asked for more information on the AsyncCo

(Dan Wahlin) Silverlight provides several different networking classes that can be used to retrieve data from distributed resources such as Web services, REST APIs and even sockets. By learning to use these classes, you can access data from nearly any source without having to write a lot of custom c

(Kamran Bilgrami) Web services have provided exciting business opportunities for many individuals and enterprises. With fierce competition and shrinking margins, the Internet is not an easy place to conduct business. In addition, customer demands on greater flexibility and complex logic support are

(Nipun Tomar) Silverlight provides functionality to display the Silverlight plug-in in full-screen mode i.e. effectively take over the entire screen of a computer hiding everything else from sight – including the browser frame. This can be very useful when building immersive UI experiences, games, r

(Dave Ward) So far, my examples of using jQuery to interact with ASP.NET AJAX services have avoided passing complex data to the server during the request. This has been intentional, because I didn’t want to over-complicate the examples.

(David Hayden) I have been talking about the ASP.NET MVC Futures, Microsoft.Web.Mvc Assembly, during the past couple of posts as I wonder what is in the package:

(Suprotim Agarwal) This article demonstrates how to create simple UI effects in an ASP.NET GridView control using jQuery. These tips have been tested in IE 7 and Firefox 3.