(Ged Mead) For several years, when I’ve needed to include code snippets in my blogs and articles, I’ve used a neat little application that VBCity member HotDog wrote. This has stood me in good stead until the day that XAML arrived on the scene. Unfortunately, XAML kinda confuses HotDog’s AutoFormatt

(Shiju Varghese) In my earlier post, I have explained how to use dependency injection pattern in ASP.net MVC application using StructureMap. In this post, I demonstrate how you can use dependency injection pattern using Microsofts Unity Application Block (Unity). If you want to develop an ASP.NET MV

(John Magnabosco) In nature the mineral called salt is a preservative. Prior to the age of refrigeration, mankind utilized this valuable resource to slow the decomposition process and increase the opportunity to consume the preserved food. This valuable mineral is also used to enhance the flavor of

(John Peterson) One of the greatest things about dynamic Web sites is the fact that you can build one page and based on the parameters that are passed to that page it can display any number of different results. For example, let’s say that you’re building a Web-based grocery store. Instead of creati

(David Dichmann) In the book The Art of War for Executives, Donald G. Krause interprets the following: Sun Tsu notes, superior commanders succeed in situations where ordinary people fail because they obtain more timely information and use it more quickly. For metadata professionals, this observation

(Andrea Colaci) In this article I want to show three different ways to deal with long running tasks in ASP.NET.

(Mahesh Chand) If you have used docking Windows in previous versions of .NET, the DockPanel is used to provide that functionality in WPF and Silverlight. The DockPanel is not a part of Silverlight 2. It is a part of Silverlight Toolkit but I am sure it will be a part of the next version of Silverlig

(Darryl K. Taft) Microsoft is reportedly working on a mobile AJAX technology code-named Kojax. The goal of Kojax is said to be to enable developers to create interactive mobile applications using a combination of Visual Studio tools and JavaScript.

(Scott Mitchell) When a browser requests an ASP.NET page from a web server, the ASP.NET engine takes that request through a number of steps that, together, generate the resulting markup, which is returned to the requesting browser for display. The stages in this process are referred to as the HTTP P

(David Thurmond) In my article “Unlocking the Secrets of Java Cryptography Extensions: The Basics,” I introduced you to the Java Cryptography Extension and the theory of encrypting and decrypting data. But, how can you be sure of the integrity of your encrypted data? Encryption and decryption are on