(Suprotim Agarwal) While browsing through the forums a couple of days ago, I came across this query where the user wanted to list down the types in .NET 3.5 in the order of the length of their names. He also wanted to find out the total number of types in .NET 3.5 and 2.0. Here’s my attempt of how t

(John Mueller) The Microsoft Management Console (MMC) has been around seemingly for eons. This host application provides a receptacle for DLLs that can do anything from displaying information to helping someone configure an application. Most of the tools found in the Administrative Tools folder of t

(Paul Kimmel) So much about programming technology changes and a lot of it stays the same. One reader wrote and asked me how to update a database from WinForms controls (not a grid), writing SQL inline. I haven’t used this approach in a while, so I had no ready-made examples. I did whip one up and s

(Brendan Enrick) Enumerations are one of many useful tools at the fingertips of developers. Most of us have been using them for years. Because they are so common and easy to use, I believe we sometimes overuse them. An enumeration at its core is merely a number value. Try this in C# and you will see

(Mamta M) In VS 2005 and VS 2008 applications that were Windows Forms based or Web based, data handling is quite simple. At least basic data handling like retrieving or querying data. But in Silverlight, the process is more complex. There are two commonly used approaches for working with data in Sil

(Caleb) We’re taking a bit of a break from WPF right now, so I’m back working on our ASP.NET project.

(Kenneth Downs) This week I am taking a bit of a departure. Normally I write about things I have already done, but this week I want to speculate a bit on a security model I am thinking of coding up. Basically I have been asking myself how to create a security model for database apps that never requi

(Robert Verpalen) Another ‘old’ bit of code that I’m still using a lot none the less. Whenever I needed drag and drop, it annoyed me that I had to use repetitive code to start it manually by tracing the mousedown etc. So what better place for repetitive code than in a reusable component. It isn’t an

(Scott Hanselman) Levi Broderick, a Senior Developer on ASP.NET MVC and all around smart dude, posted some details to an internal Microsoft mailing list today and I thought it was worth sharing. Levi agreed and I’ve expanded on it some. Phil blogged some about Model Binding to a List last October.

(Scott Mitchell) LINQ, or Language INtegrated Query, is set of classes added to the .NET Framework 3.5 along with language enhancements added to C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9, the versions of the language that ship with Visual Studio 2008. LINQ adds a rich, standardized query syntax as a first-class cit