(Nikhil Kothari) A long while back, I wrote an Ajax InPlaceEdit behavior that you could attach to input controls to enable in-place editing experiences in HTML. I was thinking of doing the same in Silverlight using the behavior framework in Silverlight.FX that I used to demonstrate adding auto-compl

(Roger Jennings) LINQ to SQL celebrated its first anniversary on Nov. 11, 2008. As Microsoft’s first object/relational mapping (O/RM) tool to reach developers as a finished product, LINQ to SQL gave .NET developers a full-fledged O/RM and persistence tool built into Visual Studio 2008. VS 2008 SP1’s

(Suprotim Agarwal) Retrieving and displaying images in a GridView is a time consuming task. If done synchronously, this task can at times test the users patience. One way to provide a good user experience is to load the images asynchronously. So when the GridView loads, we initially display a defaul

(Mahesh Chand) A Calendar control is used to create a visual calendar that let users pick a date and fire an event on the selection of the date. This article demonstrates how to create and use a Calendar control in Silverlight using XAML and C#.

(Mike McIntyre) Extension methods are new in Visual Basic 2008. This short blog series will explore how extension methods can be used to add Subs and Functions to the .NET String type.

(Scott Mitchell) I like data. I go gaga over measurable metrics. Nothing makes me happier than storing information and then seeing it expressed in tables of numbers and colorful charts. Whenever I work on a web application I am always looking for interesting data to record and analyze, and the most

(Peter Vogel) One of the features added in Service Pack 1 for .NET 3.5 is routing (which first appeared in the MVC version of ASP.NET). Routing allows you to disconnect the physical structure of your site from the URLs that users invoke to access your pages in your site.

(Scott Guthrie) Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery. Over the last few weeks we’ve been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (which is free). This is now available

(Xianzhong Zhu) Digging further, there are included at least two meanings here. First, there are objects that have a common responsibility, which means these objects can be abstracted into a common interface. Secondly, it is the meaning of the “chain.” The so-called “chain” from the angle of data st

(Don Raman) Canonical URLs help you to make your links Search Engine Optimized (SEO). For human it is easy to understand that http://www.contoso.com is same as http://contoso.com. But many search engines will not make this assumption and treat them as two separate entries. This will split the rankin