(Ged Mead) I’ve always found ListViews quite fascinating. Slightly confusing sometimes, but fascinating nevertheless.

(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

(Eric Landes) For those of us integrating Business Intelligence tools into our applications, it can be useful to have information on performance of our BI tools. The idea behind the article is to do some load testing on certain Crystal Reports in a .NET environment. We want to see how effective the

(Suprotim Agarwal) In this article, we will see 5 common tips when using the ASP.NET TreeView control bound with a SiteMap. It’s very common to display the SiteMap using the TreeView control. The tips shown in this article cover some frequent challenges we face when using these controls. I assume yo

(Walter Pinson) Microsoft’s Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) team is on to something. Luckily, for developers around the world, they have released it to the public. I’m talking about Code Contracts in Microsoft .NET. Code Contracts are very useful under any circumstance; however, they are

(Tess Ferrandez) During mine and Micke’s presentation at TechDays this week I showed a demo of setting up rules with Debug Diag to identify the cause of a crash in an ASP.NET application.

(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

(Gil Shabat) Web applications are dynamic- many requiring unique content and interfaces for each user. There are a myriad of ways to take user content out of a database and present it in a browser. This article focuses on the different ways it can be done in the Microsoft world (specifically in ASP.

The uniqueidentifier SQL Server data type is increasingly used in applications that require global uniqueness of the primary key. In SQL Server 2005, the NEWSEQUENTIALID() function has been introduced that generates sequentially increasing GUID values and hence reduces page contention at the leaf le

(Gaurav Mehta) Serialization is a process of converting an object into a stream of data so that it can be is easily transmittable over the network or can be continued in a persistent storage location. This storage location can be a physical file, database or ASP.NET Cache. Serialization is the techn