(Karl Seguin) Like generics, delegates are one of those features that developers use without really understanding. Initially this wasn’t really a problem since delegates were reserved for fairly specific purposes: implementing callbacks and as the building-block for events (amongst a few other edge
Tag: Development
Customizing ASP.NET Dynamic Data
(Laurent Duveau) From Wikipedia: ASP.NET Dynamic Data is a web application scaffolding framework from Microsoft, shipped as an extension to ASP.NET, that can be used to build data driven web applications.
How To Get the Icon from an Application
(Ged Mead) This question comes up every so often in the forums and it’s one of those things that you’d think should be easy, but actually isn’t. Well, it isn’t until you know how – like most things in developer land. The question is usually something along the lines of “How can I grab the icon from
Moonlight 1.0 Coming Very Soon
(Eric Brown) Microsoft’s “Silverlight” alternative to Adobe Flash may be just about ready for the Linux desktop. A developer blog says the first beta release of the open source Moonlight 1.0 for Linux will arrive “very, very soon,” while a new Moonlight 2.0 development effort is welcoming new contri
Creating Your Own Visual WebGui Silverlight Theme
(Eyal.Albert) You should be familiar by now with What is Visual WebGui and What is Visual WebGui over Silverlight. It is recommended that you read “How to create a Visual WebGui Silverlight application” and other articles in the “Get Started with Silverlight” section.
A Google Chart API Custom Server Control
(Scott Mitchell) Last week’s article, Creating Charts with the Google Chart API, looked at how to use Google’s free Chart API to generate line, pie, bar, and other types of charts from an ASP.NET page. The Google Chart API is callable via a URL that contains the chart type, size, data, and other par
PowerBuilder .NET Web Services with Various Front Ends
(Arthur Hefti) Last year I wrote an article in PBDJ describing an ASP.NET project that was done with DataWindow.NET in the browser (“Prognos” Volume 14, Issue 4) and PowerBuilder Web Services in the back end. The front end consisted of an intro page, two data entry pages, and one page with the resul
Protect your JavaScript with obfuscation
(Tony Patton) JavaScript is the standard language for building powerful web applications. A drawback of its usage is the ability for others to easily view JavaScript code via the View Source web browser option.
New ASP.NET Charting Control:
(Scott Guthrie) Microsoft recently released a cool new ASP.NET server control – – that can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting scenarios:
WrapPanel in Silverlight
(Mahesh Chand) A WrapPanel control is used to arrange child controls to arrange vertically or horizontally. This article demonstrates how to create and use a WrapPanel control in Silverlight using XAML and C#.
