(Suprotim Agarwal) The CalendarExtender is an ASP.NET AJAX control that is associated with a TextBox control. When the user clicks on the TextBox, a client-side Calendar control pops up. The user can then set a date by clicking on a day, navigate months by clicking on the left and right arrow and pe

(Srinath MS) Most developers use Command Window as an interactive debug window, but there’s so much more that can be done with it.

(Scott Mitchell) ASP.NET is an exciting web programming technology pioneered by Microsoft that allows developers to create dynamic web pages. Dynamic web pages are pages whose content is dynamically regenerated each time the web page is requested. For example, after you log on, the front page of Ama

(Zach Smith) A great way to insure that your program is easily accessible to the user is by putting an icon for your application in the system tray. Ill show you how to use the system tray with C# and the .NET Framework.

(Sasha Goldshtein) WCF seems like an easy technology to master. It serves as the ultimate example of framework design — it is simple for simple tasks, and not too complicated for complex ones; it is extensible and replaceable; its API is well-designed and convenient. One of the greatest challenges

(Oleg Zhukov) Not long ago Microsoft introduced their Model-View-Controller framework under ASP.NET MVC name. It provides a toolset for building well-designed testable 3-tier applications, which follow the Model-View-Controller pattern. However, MVC is not the only one architectural solution for con

(Dan Wahlin) Silverlight 2 provides a variety of controls that can be used to collect and display data, display collections of items, and play media. Developers coming from ASP.NET will find that using Silverlight controls is similar in many ways to using ASP.NET server controls because the Silverli

(Nikhil Kothari) The MVC pattern is quite widespread, and lots has been written about it. Clearly, it is a popular addition to ASP.NET. MVC works especially well for request/response style web apps as well as in navigation-based client apps.

(Suprotim Agarwal) Errors and failures may occur during development and operation of a website. ASP.NET 2.0 provides tracing, instrumentation and error handling mechanisms to detect and fix issues in an application.

(Lars Powers and Mike Snell) Windows Vista marked the release of the .NET Framework 3.0. This release included many great new features for the Windows developer. Among them was the initial release of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow