(Enterra) Silverlight is a perspective platform for web solutions. Microsoft has been actively developing it, trying to move Macromedia Flash aside from its current position. In the internet, there is a plenty of data containing examples based on Silverlight, which indeed look impressive. However, u

(Neil Knobbe) Ok, let’s call this page 22,492 in the book of things I did not know about Visual Studio 2005.

(Jay Miller) Each method can only return a single value from the method call. What happens when you need to return more information? One solution is for your method to return a complex data type. It could return a struct or an object of a class you define. In many situations this makes sense, especi

(David Catherman) Part of the business logic encapsulated in the Typed DataSet is the ability to add specialized queries to the table adapters to retrieve the data with different filters. By manipulating the XML schema that defines the dataset and adding the correct XML metadata, Visual Studio will

(Suprotim Agarwal) You cannot call server-side code ‘directly’ from client-side code. That is because by design, the server side code executes at server side and client side code at the client. However there are some workarounds. To call serverside code from javascript, you will need to use AJAX, an

(Danijel Arsenovski) Dynamic languages like PHP, Python, Pearl, Ruby, Groovy and others have become increasingly popular in the last decade. Dynamic language converts often quote ease of use and high productivity as a main benefit over classical static languages.

(Justin James) Microsoft is working hard to release the Parallel Extensions Library, which is a library of objects designed to speed the development of multithreaded applications. The library contains two major advantages over traditional .NET multithreading techniques.

(Tess Fernandez) I got a question the other day around calling GC.Collect and GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers.

(Neil Knobbe) I was taking another look at the WPF expander control that I talked about here and discovered that you don’t actually need to use any code to get rid of the background colour of the control when collapsed.

(Tony Patton) Visual Studio 2005’s built-in code snippets are great, but you can extend the concept by creating custom code snippets to easily reuse common code blocks in your application. This tutorial walks you through the process of creating custom code snippets.