(Mamta M) Themes are like styles that you can apply to your Web pages. While ASP.NET 3.5 had ample support for styling through themes, Silverlight 2 itself does not include any built-in support for themes. This has been overcome now by the Silverlight Toolkit.

(Bill Wagner) Many developers have the misconception that targeting older versions of the Framework means you can’t use any of the new C# language features. It’s time to dispel that myth.

(Jon Galloway) While working on the PDC2008 website, we had several time-critical updates. There were some announcements that needed to go live on the website at specific times to coincide with other marketing, there were updates to the list of of software being given to attendees that needed to go

(Marius Serban) In every good book that you read about .NET framework or .NET programming languages (C#, VB.NET) a special section is dedicated to strings (System.String class). The reason for that is that this class has a special behaviour and the better you understand how the .NET framework is han

(Chad Campbell) One of the great new features within the world of entertainment has been the addition of on-demand content. This enhancement gives the opportunity to enjoy audio or video elements at your convenience. And although this convenience may be nice in the living room, it’s often viewed as

(Justin James) A reader recently e-mailed me a really good question about multithreading, and I thought other developers might find our exchange useful. Here’s the reader’s question: I recently learned about multithreading and found it’s extremely interesting. I came across your articles about Mu

(Ed Tittel) I occasionally find myself wondering if architect Christopher Alexander and the many collaborators on his seminal book A Pattern Language ever had any inkling of the vast impact his work would have on the software business. Although Alexander and crew were traditional architects, he has

The ASP.NET framework provides this technique called the event bubbling that allows a child control to propagate up its container hierarchy. Event bubbling enables enabled events to be raised from a more convenient location of the control hierarchy and allows event handler to be attached to the ori

(P3 Tech) This is a very simple custom control implementation of a progress bar that allows text to be written over it.

(Corey Roth) I have been building a large number of InfoPath Form Templates in Visual Studio 2008 lately and I have discovered it is can be quite the exercise in frustration when you want to put your files in TFS (or any source control for that matter). There are a number of reasons for this, but i