(Jeff McWherter) Designers are not born with this skill; they learn it just as programmers learn to program. This article will expose developers to techniques that designers use to create GUI’s that are aesthetically pleasing to users. Reports are often thought of as the GUI to information, but they

(Suprotim Agarwal) As given in the ASP.NET AJAX toolkit documentation, the CollapsiblePanel is a very flexible extender that allows you to easily add collapsible sections to your web page. This extender targets any ASP.NET Panel control Here are some tips that will help you out in your projects whil

(Mahesh Chand) A ListBox control is an items control that works as a ListBox control but only one item from the collection is visible at a time and clicking on the ListBox makes the collection visible and allows users to pick an item from the collection. Unlike a ListBox control, a ListBox does not

(Cal Schrotenboer) Earlier this year, Michael Scherotter and William Garrison produced an excellent article on “Using Web Analytics with Microsoft Silverlight”. The Scherotter/Garrison article was targeted at Silverlight 1.0 and given the recent release of Silverlight 2 RC0, and the even more recent

(Nikhil Kothari) About a month or so back, Daniel sent me an email about an idea he was working on – a fluent interface that allows developers to build professional UI complete with visual effects and how that related to my Silverlight.FX effects framework.

(Scott Guthrie) Today we launched a new ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery on the www.asp.net site. The design gallery hosts free HTML design templates that you can download and easily use with your ASP.NET MVC applications. Included with each design template is a Site.master file, a CSS stylesheet, and o

(John Batte) Have you ever had to implement ICloneable on a complex type? Gets out of hand in a hurry, doesn’t it? How about IEquatable? Here’s a good one: what happens when you need to serialize an object graph using BinaryFormatter (so it can be transmitted or stored) and somewhere in the tree

(Steve Michelotti) Microsoft’s Model-View-Controller framework makes it possible to implement “a separation of concerns” in ASP.NET — something that was difficult, if not impossible, previously. Learn how to take advantage of MVC to design better Web apps that separate their architectural elements

(Scott Lysle) This article describes a simple approach to storing, retrieving, and redisplaying web pages. Such might be useful if you need to store exact copies of confirmation pages (e.g., following a sales transaction) or something along those lines. The example provided is in the form of a sim

(Dan Wahlin) Animations are a key part of Silverlight 2 that allow your applications to stand out from all of the boring and dull applications floating around on the Web. In previous articles Ive written about storyboards and animations but as a quick review, Silverlight relies upon a Storyboard el