(Charlie Calvert and Dinesh Kulkarni) Now that you’ve seen several practical examples of LINQ’s syntax, it is time to view the technology from a more theoretical perspective. This chapter covers the seven foundations on which an understanding of LINQ can be built. LINQ is Integrated Unitive E

(Sateesh Kumar) In this article, we will look into visual studio add-ins and benefits of using it. Visual Studio provides add-ins to extend the functionality to its IDE. By using add-ins, we can automate our repetitive tasks in VS IDE. Visual Studio provides two project templates for creating add-in

(Joe Winchester) User interface generation tools are something that has always been dear to my heart. I’ve enjoyed using them and have been fortunate enough to work on developing them. However, there’s a huge tar pit to be avoided when using them on projects that I see people heading towards over an

(Chad A. Campbell) “Silverlight is a client-side runtime that enables developers to design, develop, and deliver rich, interactive experiences across the internet”. Understandably, this sentence from the first paragraph in my book “Silverlight 2 in Action” does little to explain Silverlight’s valuab

(Brian Mains) Dundas charts is a popular charting tool that embeds pie, bar, line, and more charts into a web or windows applicatin. For the web, Dundas generates the charts on the server and serves up images to the client in the browser. This works well in the web environment, which relies upon t

(Mike) It’s a common problem: you have a registration form, but you want to prevent user names or other values from being used more than once. You need a user-friendly way to prevent duplicate values being submitted. This is where the simplicity of jQuery excels.

(Peter Vogel) In an earlier column, I talked about how to treat a User Control as an object, but I skipped over how to get your User Control to fire an event. Firing events isn’t an ASP.NET-specific topic but because it’s critical to integrating User Controls with their host page, it’s worth discuss

(Kit George) It is clear that there’s a bit of confusion over the namespace guidelines. Here is our attempt at make this clear. We know this will remain a contentious issue, but the goal of these guidelines is to clarify: –The .NET platform is not limited to any one single redistributable. —

(Mahesh Chand) This article demonstrates how to create and use an image brush in Silverlight using XAML and C#.

(Scott Mitchell) As discussed in An Introduction to LINQ, LINQ is composed of three main components: –Language Extensions, –Standard Query Operators, and –LINQ Providers.