(Paul Stovell) One difference between XAML in a C# project and VB.NET projects is in specifying the x:Class of your XAML root element.

(Tess Ferrandez) I recently received a question from a reader who wanted to know how to set breakpoints in code for applications that crash on startup.

(John Papa) Unlike Silverlight 1, Silverlight 2 has controls, .NET CLR support and data binding features. This article is the first of a series that describes the basic elements of data binding with Silverlight 2.

(Srinath MS) The following two steps disable the Copy/Paste feature in a textbox: –Disable the default menu and associate the textbox with an empty context menu that has no menu items (mouse actions). –The user can still use the shortcut keys on the keyboard and perform these operations.

(Edward Steward) When it comes to building a Client/Server application one of the most time consuming elements is the GUI. Quite often a developer will get stuck piecing together the visual elements/appearance with control population, data input validation and then interaction with the business obje

(Scott Mitchell) A common user interface element for entering date values is a popup calendar. For example, virtually all travel and booking websites prompt for dates using a textbox that, when clicked or focused, displays a calendar that hovers above the rest of the content on the page. Upon clicki

(Ged Mead) I was looking for a task to use as the background task of my recent article on the BackgroundWorker component and decided that I’d use a recursive search through folders. Ironically, I ended up spending about twice as much time on getting the recursive search procedures running correct

(Timothy Khouri) The GridView control in ASP.NET 2.0 is lacking some major (yet common) functionality – sorting. This article will show you how to create a “self-sorting” GridView using LINQ expression trees.

(Suprotim Agarwal) I had recently received a request from a dotnetcurry.com visitor about creating a dynamic table in ASP.NET. Now there are plenty of solutions available on the net. Most of the solutions I found, advised creating a dynamic table in the Page_Init() event, since the values of control

(Abhishek Kumar Singh) In terms of kernel scheduling, a process is a heavy unit, whereas a thread is the smallest and lightest unit. Each process reserves its own memory space (i.e. address space) as well as resources. Thread does not specifically own resources except registers and stack. Each thre