(Kenneth Downs) Many database performance decisions come down to “pay me now or pay me later.” Some decisions will produce faster inserts and updates at the cost of slower and more complex reads, while other decisions will slow down inserts and updates but provide faster and easier reads.

(Neil Knobbe) A while back I posted up about showing more interesting content on that tab of a tab control using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

(Scott Lysle) This article will discuss alternative methods for performing cascading deletes using LINQ to SQL. Cascading delete refers to the action of removing records associated by a foreign key relationship to a record that is the target of a deletion action. LINQ to SQL does not specifically

(Stephen Walther) In this tip, I demonstrate how you can create unit tests for the routes in your ASP.NET MVC applications. I show how to test whether a URL is being mapped to the right controller, controller action, and action parameters.

(Timothy Khouri) ADO.NET Data Services (formerly “project Astoria”) is a new mindset to developing data driven applications. Based on a RESTful architecture, this tool provides powerful services for querying and altering your data. This article will walk you through the steps of exposing your data a

(Scott Benson) Data modeling is based on the precept of knowing your data and knowing how the data is interrelated with other data. Everyone knows their data right? If so, then why do we have so many problems building systems that do what the users want?

(liammclennan) The purpose of this article is to describe the technique I have used to implement the repository pattern in .NET applications. I will provide a brief description of the repository pattern and linq-to-sql, however, if you are unfamiliar with these technologies you should research them

(Mahesh Chand) This article discusses how to create and use the TabControl available in Silverlight 2.0.

(Hannes du Preez) The GroupBox, as you know it, has a specific function, and that is to group several objects together, so that you only have to manipulate one object. For example, to make the items inside the Groupbox invisible, you just need to set the GroupBox’s Visible property to False, instead

(Stephen Walther) In this tip, I show you how to test ASP.NET intrinsics when building unit tests for an ASP.NET MVC application. I show you how to create a standard set of fake objects that enables you to fake the current user, the current user roles, the request parameters, session state, and cook