(Arlen Feldman) Believe it or not, WPF has been around for a while—it shipped as part of Windows Vista in January of 2007, and several of the utilities and system components of Vista make use of it. However, using WPF has not been entirely practical—largely because there were very few tools to make

(Matt Goebel and Rachel Baker) The Microsoft Sync Framework and Visual Studio 2008 provide Windows desktop developers with a powerful tool for creating occasionally-connected applications that can synchronize data with a central repository when connected. In the following example, we will use the Mi

(Jeff Pryslak) The rise of Enterprise Architecture (EA) should be no surprise to any of us, and yet every day businesses either opt out of deploying enterprise architecture, or can’t deploy it effectively. While the Industrial Age was characterized by process-based advances such as assembly lines an

(Scott Mitchell) All ASP.NET pages extend the Page class in the System.Web.UI namespace, which defines the base functionality, events, methods, and properties common to all ASP.NET pages. This includes common objects like Request, Response, and Session, along with the mechanisms for serializing view

(TechBearSeattle) With the introduction of LINQ in .NET 3.0, Microsoft added the ability to extend object functionality directly, without having to sub-class. This article will cover the basics of how to write extension methods. The techniques demonstrated require either Visual Studio 2008 or latter

(Harsh Bardhan) In Silverlight 2, one of the challenges faced by developers was navigation between pages. It was not easy to navigate from one Xaml page to the other. In Silverlight 3, Microsoft has introduced the Navigation Framework. In this article, we will explore the Navigation Framework in Sil

(Peter Vogel) What has constantly amazed me in all my Internet wanderings is how many Web sites seem designed to punish the people using them. The problems aren’t restricted to ASP.NET sites, of course, but I’m not going to pass up the opportunity this column gives me to vent some spleen.

(Hatim Rih) In this part I will talk about using the .Net RIA Services Metadata Model for data validation and authorization. Unlike the second part of this series this won’t be a tutorial but more of a theoretical article.

(Gunnar Peipman) ASP.NET provides us with System.Drawing namespace where we can find classes we can use to manipulate with images. There are many people out there who mistakenly think that Image.GetThumbnailImage is best choice for image resizing. You can easily create crappy images if you follow th

(Tom) If you have started playing with the RIA controls for Silverlight, one thing that you will need to understand is that when you get a DomainContext and call one of the load commands, that it does this async.