(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

(Nihar Ranjan Nayak) XBAP (XAML Browser Application) is a new Windows technology used for creating Rich Internet Applications. There is always a confusion between WPF, XBAP and Silverlight. Developers get confused which one to go for while designing a project. Here I will explain all the 3 technolo

In an ASP.NET Web page, you can set to two culture values, the Culture and UICulture properties. The Culture value determines the results of culture-dependent functions, such as the date, number, and currency formatting, and so on. The UICulture value determines which resources are loaded for the pa

(Nikhil Kothari) In my last post, I introduced the current set of layout panels provided by Silverlight.FX. All of those panels positioned their children by computing the size and position based on desired and available sizes, i.e. by overriding the measurement and arrangement API, as expected of Pa

(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, Dan G. Switzer, II was giving me some really great jQuery tips. Among the things that we discussed was the ability to define an anonymous function and then call it immediately:

(Justin James) A lot of the anti-VB.NET talk is from C# developers, but this is baffling because the language that most resembles VB.NET from a technical standpoint is C#.

(Peter Kankowski) Hash tables are popular data structures for storing key-value pairs. A hash function is used to map the key value (usually a string) to array index. The functions are different from cryptographic hash functions, because they should be much faster and don’t need to be resistant to p

(Payton Byrd) Anyone who has worked with me for the last eight years or so knows that I absolutely love Typed DataSets. The power and functionality of DataSets, combined with the type safety of business objects all rolled into one nice and neat package has always appealed to me.

(Scott Lysle) This article describes a simple approach to creating a LINQ to SQL based master-detail view with the ability to save changes made to the data. With practically no coding involved, the application below will allow the user to edit the master record as well as the detail records.

(Nikhil Kothari) The layout system in Silverlight is, in my opinion, one of the key differentiators in presentation engine capabilities from HTML/CSS (on a related note, see my post long ago about my browser/scripting wish list and the references to need for core layout primitives).