(Scott Mitchell) The configuration information for an ASP.NET application is stored in one or more XML-based configuration files named Web.config. The default configuration settings for all web applications on the web server are spelled out in the Web.config file in the $WINDOWS$Microsoft.NETFrame

(Mahesh Chand) A polygon is a series of connected lines which is a closed shape. A closed shape is a shape that has same start point and end point. This article demonstrates how to create and use a Polygon control in Silverlight using XAML and C#.

(David Ebbo) Most Dynamic Data web sites typically only use a single database, with either a Linq To Sql or Entity Framework model over it. But in some cases, you need your site to use multiple databases/models. This came up today in this forum thread. In fact, the original poster (Chris) is the

(Paulo Morgado) Callbacks were introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 and is a simple mechanism for calling page or control functionality without page rendering and without the user noticing a post back.

(Ged Mead) When it comes to text handling in WPF, you have a massive range of tools available, some of which can offer you a level of granularity that was previously unachievable. I plan to write about some of these text tools, such as Spans, Runs and Glyphs in future blogs, but for today I want to

(Tom) I have been working on some code that involves using Linq to query a database and came across something that I thought was really useful. So here is the situation:

(Mark Grand) UML is a standard maintained by the Object Management Group. UML has its own terminology that is independent of implementation languages such as Java and C#. UML calls pieces of information stored in instances of a class attributes rather than variables. UML calls a class’s encapsulatio

(Mahesh Chand) This article demonstrates how to create and use a Label control in Silverlight using XAML and C#.

(Jim Mischel) Sometimes, you want your application to have exclusive access to parts or all of a disk file. For example, when updating a binary file you wouldn’t want others to be updating the same record. Or, you might want to prevent others from reading a file until you’re done writing the entire

(David Ebbo) This post was prompted from a forum thread in which the user wanted to display database errors in a Dynamic Data page, instead of the default behavior that ends up with an unhandled exception (or an AJAX error with partial rendering).