(Kenneth Downs) The modern database server provides a wealth of features that provide robust and reliable storage. Understanding how these features work is vital if you want fast performance for your databases. This week we begin a series on performance by looking at “ACID” compliance and how it aff

(Scott Mitchell) Microsoft’s ASP.NET AJAX framework ships with a mere five Web controls: the ScriptManager and ScriptManagerProxy; the UpdatePanel; the UpdateProgress; and the Timer. Previous installments in this article series have examined all but one control, the Timer. As we’ve seen from the fir

(Vikas Ahuja) The Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio enable developers to incorporate a set of Windows Live services into their web sites using Visual Studio and ASP.NET via a set of ASP.NET Server Controls.

Two problems with traditional asp.net pages; 1. When some event happens, they require full page postback, no matter how small is the request, and renders the entire page which consumes too much of end users time. 2. It uses click and wait interaction pattern i.e. it does synchrounous communi

(Kevin Ortman) This sample application demonstrates how to use the SimplyRestfulRouteHandler to provide a RESTful approach to client-server communication. The SimplyRestfulRouteHandler is included in the MVC Contrib project, which extends the functionality of the ASP.NET MVC framework.

(Jim Mischel) To read a chunk of the file, then, we read each line from the file, add the line to our list of lines, and add the computed string memory to a running total. Once the total exceeds the memory threshold specified by the caller, we stop. Well also need to put an upper limit on the number

(NirajRules) One of the major motivations to move to WPF is to leverage on its Binding framework. This article assumes that you are already comfortable with this wonderful piece of technology. In here, I will try addressing a common issue which might look unusual at first. I will start with scenario

(Nikhil Kothari) In my last post, I posted an implementation of the ViewModel or M-V-VM pattern for use in Silverlight applications. This pattern allows you to decouple your view presentation logic and data from the view, thereby facilitating independent development/design of your app as well as eas

(Brad Abrams) I had a bit more time on my travels, so I cooked up this brief introduction to Dynamic Data. I tried a different approach this time by showing what Dynamic Data adds to our existing data story.

(Mahesh Chand) In this tutorial, you will learn how we can use existing Windows Forms controls in a WPF application. I have used Visual Studio 2008 to create this tutorial.