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

(Gayani Devapriya) Developers regularly waste (or should I say lose) huge amounts of their time when building up data-driven web applications by going through the same repetitive tasks each and every time. Whilst the database varies from one application to the next, the applications themselves share

(Scott Mitchell) I’ve always wondered how the phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words” came about. I like to think that it was coined by some mid-level manager viewing a sales figures report that consisted of metrics from the past 1,000 days. After scanning this long list of numbers, he found, a

(Xianzhong Zhu) As I hinted in earlier articles in this series, to overcome the deficiencies of the ASP.NET Web Forms solution, Microsoft created an alternative to Web Formsthe ASP.NET MVC framework. In the MVC framework, a whole web application is separated into three components: the model, view, a

(Mamta M) Those of you who have worked with ASP.NET 3.5 will know that the new version of ASP.NET has built in support for AJAX and that the Visual Studio 2008 IDE also supports a new set of controls called the AJAX Control Toolkit. This Toolkit was nothing but a suite of custom built controls that

(Rico Mariani) Well the time has finally come for me to start writing about my new job in earnest. My long time readers know that I became Chief Architect of Visual Studio in the summer of 2007 and I’ve been working on Visual Studio 2010 issues since then. Well actually, believe it or not, I’m alr

(Suprotim Agarwal) The ListView control is a new data control available in ASP.NET 3.5 and is quiet similar to the GridView and Repeater control. The GridView uses row fields to display data, whereas the ListView control displays data using user-defined templates. Moreover ListView can edit and sele

(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.

(Harry Pierson) Back before version 1.0 of the CLR shipped, Microsoft engaged a variety of commercial and academic organizations to produce languages that ran on .NET; an effort code-named “Project 7.” One of those languages was Python for .NET, developed by ActiveState. That worked, but Project 7 d

(Scott Guthrie) We shipped Silverlight 2 last month. Over the last 4 weeks, the final release of Silverlight 2 has been downloaded and installed on more than 100 million consumer machines. It has also recently been published to corporate administrators via the Microsoft SMS and Microsoft Update pr