(Mamta M) A storyboard in a Blend or Silverlight application is a resource that contains a collection of animations each of which targets a specific property of a specific control. Animations here mean actions that temporarily change the property values of elements. For example, a rendering action o

(Rod Stephens) Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) has been around for a couple of years now but there are still plenty of developers who don’t really know what it’s all about. Some think it’s a “Vista thing.” Others think it’s about transparent controls, shaded backgrounds, or separating user int

(Suprotim Agarwal) Have you ever felt the need of writing logic at the application level; precisely a location or a file where you could handle events or errors at the application level? Well if yes, then enter the Global.asax. Using this file, you can define event handlers with application-wide or

(Tess Ferrandez) I will share a step-by-step of how I created a simple WCF service and consumed it from an ASP.NET app in my next post, but first I wanted to show you how to debug the particular hang I was running into.

(David Hayden) On this subject of O/R Mappers and their ability to be real chatty with your database if you are not careful, I thought I would show some quick examples with regards to LINQ To SQL and iterating against lazy loaded collection properties. For some background on why I am talking about t

(Dan Wahlin) In the previous article, I demonstrated how you can use templates along with styles in Silverlight 2 applications to customize controls. By using templates, you can change colors, shapes, sizes and much more on a given control.

(Sanjay) In the post below I am going to run down a short-list of some of the less-popular performance tips and the reasoning behind them. There are loads of blog postings and articles on asp.net performance enhancements, and I urge you to check those out as well. Onto the good stuff…

(Justin Etheredge) I don’t know about most of you out there, but I know that I am extremely excited about the impending release of ASP.NET MVC. I’m even more curious though about what kind of adoption we are going to start seeing out of the gate, especially being that companies have invested so much

(Mamta M) Apart from doing the usual “rich user interface” building tasks, you can also experiment with Silverlight 2 to achieve interesting results and outcomes. For example, you can create a Silverlight 2 application having a button with a filled rectangular content, like the one you see on media

(Yoann. B) In this article Ill provide a simple way in order to build a Pluggable Generic ASP.NET Cache Manager.