(Stefan Bocutiu) One functionality that is good to have for a data grid and quite common for Winform/ASP.NET is auto filtering. At the moment the Silverlight DataGrid doesn’t provide anything for this, so I have decided to address the problem. The idea is to have the option to choose from different

(Scott Mitchell) When storing user-supplied text data into a database, it is essential that the length of the user’s input does not exceed the size of the corresponding database table field. To ensure that a user’s input is within the legal bounds, you can: set the TextBox control’s MaxLength proper

(Kenneth Downs) The stunning power of a data dictionary comes into play once the dictionary contains formulas for calculated values. The dictionary can then be used to generate code, and also to generate documentation. This double-win is not available without the calculations because the resulting d

(Ged Mead) Some weeks ago I wrote a blog item about how to get the functionality of PerformClick in WPF.

(Purushottam Rathore) ASP.NET introduces new functionality that allows you to write debug statements, directly in your code, without having to remove them from your application when it is deployed to production servers. Called tracing, this feature allows you to write variables or structures in a pa

(Philip Kin) While Silverlight has a lot of useful controls, it seems to be lacking support for some of the things we’ve all become accustomed to. Recently I had the “pleasure” of putting together a dropdown menu with submenus built from our database. This was tricky for multiple reasons. The code p

(Suprotim Agarwal) The CheckBoxList control in ASP.NET provides a group of checkboxes that can be dynamically generated by binding it to a data source. A few months ago, I had written a similar article using ASP.NET and JavaScript over here Check/Uncheck all items in a CheckBoxList using ASP.NET and

(Jason Crease) How big is a string in .NET? Typically the size of an object is 8 bytes for the object header plus the sum of the fields.

(Jim Mischel) In Working with Compression, I showed how you can use GZipStream and DeflateStream to compress data as it’s written (or uncompress as you’re reading), saving disk space and often saving processing time. What I showed, though, is not the whole story.

(Nikhil Kothari) We have LinqDataSource in ASP.NET. However, the fact that I have to break up my LINQ statement into individual string properties (as shown below) has bugged me ever since the feature existed.