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Downcasting in C#

(Scott Lysle) This article describes a simple approach to downcasting in C#; downcasting merely refers to the process of casting an object of a base class type to a derived class type. Upcasting is legal in C# as the process there is to convert an object of a derived class type into an object of its

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Are you a Control Freak?

(Ryan Lanciaux) Since the very early ASP.NET MVC previews, the most common argument I’ve heard against using the framework is the lack of user controls. In my opinion, this is a mixed blessing, however, for some, this is a show stopper. What can you do to provide a rich user interface with the MVC f

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First Time with AJAX.NET

(Andrew Montgomery) In a former life, I was a web developer. Back in the late ’90s, I vividly remember being told by more than one of my computer science professors that in 10 years, everything would run in a web browser. Even the operating system (it was claimed at the time) would be browser based.

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Line Chart in Silverlight

(Mahesh Chand) The Silverlight Toolkit released on November 2008 comes with a data visualization assembly called Microsoft.Windows.Controls.DataVisualization.dll that hosts the functionality related to charts in Silverlight. This article demonstrates how to draw charts using the Silverlight Toolkit