(Nikhil Kothari) FxCop is a great tool to help ensure consistency of .NET code and to help push quality upstream in the development process by reinforcing design guidelines and flagging some potential issues that can be detected through static analysis of your assemblies. Last week, the FxCop team r

(Mahesh Chand) A RadioButton is usually used in a group with multiple options where one has to be selected. The RadioButton tag represents a RadioButton control in XAML.

(Duncan Edwards Jones) The printing subsystem can be particularily daunting the first time it is encountered. It is unfamiliar to most developers and it lacks the draw-and-code experience that the windows form designer has made so familiar to us. However there are a number of classes built in to t

(Tess Ferrandez) A while back I posted about Failed Request Tracing in IIS 7 and I mentioned the command appcmd list requests which lists the requests that are currently executing in the process…

(Scott Mitchell) This article is the second installment of a four-part series that examines how to build a data-driven web applications that offers dynamic user interfaces. Over the course of this article series we will build a complete and functional web application with a dynamic, data-driven user

Your web application needs to be both easy to use and fast to execute. If you have large table in your database, it is not good idea to show all table rows on web page at the same time. That will use too much traffic between web server and user’s machine, probably slow down user’s web browser and ce

(Stephen Walther) In this tip, I explain how you can use the NHaml view engine as the view engine for an ASP.NET MVC application. I demonstrate how to create NHaml views that display both static content and database records. I also discuss how you can use master pages and user controls with the NHam

(Vladimir Gregor) There are many differences between .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework, yet many developers port their desktop applications to mobile platforms as if they were the same. Microsoft did some great work by creating the .NET Framework and the .NET Compact Framework which made the

(Kenneth Downs) Some database applications require you to perform a series of actions where you know only that some actions must be performed before others. Before you can perform the actions, you must work out a safe sequence that takes into account all of the dependencies. This week in The Databas

(Bipin Joshi) If you are a .NET developer, by this time you probably worked with ASP.NET Web Services. However, ASP.NET is not the only framework that allows you to develop web services. SQL Server 2005 and 2008, for example, allow you to create web services. SQL Server native web services can come