(Mahesh Chand) A ComboBox 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 ComboBox makes the collection visible and allows users to pick an item from the collection. Unlike a ComboBox control, a ComboBox does

(Tony Patton) In this article, I combine the GridView, DetailsView, and FormView data controls to provide a drill down option for the GridView control, giving users a more detailed look at individual data rows.

(Jani Jrvinen) During the years that classic ASP and ASP.NET have existed, developers have learned to build applications based on web forms, session state, and server-side controls. But, the ability to dynamically route web server calls, create applications that separate logic from the user interfac

(Laurent Duveau) Following my first post on ASP.NET Dynamic Data, I want to show you that you can customize existing fields used by Dynamic Data very easily.

(Mahesh Chand) The OpenFileDialog allows users to select one or more files on the local computer or on a networked computer. This article demonstrates how to create and use an OpenFileDialog control in Silverlight using XAML and C#.

(Paul Kimmel) I’ve seen a lot of custom data access layerssome good and some not so good. Writing a custom data access layer is busywork that generally moves data from a logical schema into a conceptual collective of objects. The mismatch between the needs of the database and the needs of the soluti

(Brendan Enrick) With this design for structuring applications garnering such attention, it is becoming more important for people to understand how and why this is being used. I have had a few people ask me questions about MVC. The two questions people ask me about MVC are “What is MVC?” and “How do

(Suprotim Agarwal) In this article, we will study three different techniques that allow you to visually display progress to users while performing partial-page updates using the UpdatePanel. For all the three approaches, I have used a .gif image to show a spinning gear kind of a progress bar while t

(Boris Eligulashvili) A splash screen is created upon application startup and is ended after the the main Window class’s initialization code executes. Professional-looking applications geenrally use splash screens to let their users know where the application is in the initiliazation process. This g

(Mahesh Chand) This article demonstrates how to create and use a CheckBox control in Silverlight with the help of XAML and C#.