(Tom) I have been looking into Windows Azure a lot more lately and wanted to post a little bit about some of the things that I have found out so far. It is certainly a new way of thinking of things and will take some careful thought.

(Scott Lysle) This article describes a simple approach to validating dates received as strings (e.g., 2/21/2008). It requires on a few lines of code but will confirm that the date provided as a string is an actual date. The formats for the date string used in this example conform to the US standard

(MatsLycken) User controls are great for encapsulating both behavior and look. When you have some UI elements that you want to use in more than one place a User control is a great way to add reusability.

(Ben Nadel) I was reading up on some jQuery plugin development the other day and I saw something that I had never seen before – someone was storing data as a property of a Javascript function. I have messed around with storing data in the Prototype of a function object, but I’ve never stored arbitra

(Nic_Roche) Not a lot of server controls play nicely with the ASP.NET MVC framework; Microsoft Chart does. To implement a true MVC design pattern, the Controller should relate to the View any dependencies from the Model (data). This project shows how the Microsoft Chart controls can be streamed from

(Mamta M) Let us see a simple primer on how to work with various property groups that you see in the Blend IDE.

(Carl J LeBel) Ever sit around talking to your co-workers about random things, when all of a sudden you ask “What’s the difference between const and readonly in .Net?“. If so, you are not alone. If not, well, you’re just weird.

(Chris Williams) ClickOnce is a powerful and easy-to-use deployment technology that offers a relatively hassle-free experience for end users, when properly configured. Unfortunately, the developer story for ClickOnce varies from super simple to maddeningly complicated, depending on what you are tryi

(Oakman) As you know, the W3C standards group, in its infinite wisdom, has deprecated iframes and their more powerful cousin, frames. There are reasons for this – having to do with breaking the basic paradigm of the page as the atomic unit of information – and arguments against it centering around c

(Payton Byrd) Memory is getting cheaper and cheaper. There’s no two ways about it, and we should utilize the RAM in our systems as efficiently as possible. One way I have found to do this is through the usage of a Ram Disk.