(lonewolf3082) Using themes is cool and easy way to create a consistent look and feel across a page or an entire web site. By using themes you can easily customize your server controls with predefined looks that come with the .NET Framework or you can create your own themes for your own look.

(John Peterson) The first part of this article introduced Visual Studio code snippets and showed how they can save you lots of time and typing by reducing the need for you to manually type repetitive code. It also showed you how to use shortcuts to make using snippets even faster. This installment w

(Scott Guthrie) The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new “Preview 4” release that they hope to ship later this week. The Preview 3 release focused on finishing up a lot of the underlying core APIs and extensibility points in ASP.NET MVC. Starting with Preview 4 this week y

(Stephen Walther) In this tip, I explain the different options for running an ASP.NET MVC application from Visual Studio 2008. I recommend that you run an ASP.NET MVC application directly from the ASP.NET Development Web Server.

(Claudio Pizzillo) This article explains the use of an ASP.NET handler to serve up images using WPF and XAML templates to manipulate images.

(Kevin S. Goff) Are you moving a Windows desktop application to the browser, and sweating bullets, or perhaps just not quite sure about how all the new web and data tools work together? With each passing year, Microsoft offers newer and more powerful tools for building rich database applications on

(Mohammad Azam) Reports allow the user to view the complex data in a readable format. The data can be stored in a variety of places and can be pulled out by the reporting tool to generate a user friendly report. In this article we will demonstrate how to create sub reports using Crystal Reports.

(Bipin Joshi) Language INtegrated Query or LINQ changes the way you write your data driven applications. Previously developers used to think and code differently to access different data stores such as SQL server, XML files and in-memory collections. The new LINQ based programming can take away the

(Scott Mitchell) The master/detail report pattern is used to display information in two database tables that share a one-to-many relationship. Typically the user is shown a list of the master records and can pick one to view the corresponding detail records. Consider the Northwind database that mode

(Stephen Walther) In this tip, I show you how you can create a Visual Studio 2008 macro that creates a new MVC controller, view folder, and controller unit test with a single command.