(Nikhil Kothari) I get the Silverlight vs. Ajax question all the time, whether it is at a conference, over email, or over on discussion forums. In the interest of seeding a broader discussion, and hearing what other people think, I thought this would be an interesting blog post, along with the side

(Luis Ramirez) The Google Analytics ASP.NET Grid Serie will show you how to create an ASP.NET Grid that recreates the appearance and behavior of the Grid displayed in the Google Analytics web site.

(Stephan Onisick) Do any of the following real-life examples feel vaguely uncomfortable because they’re too familiar? –A copy-and-paste operation in which key variables don’t get changed to reflect their new use. (Even more embarrassing when copy-and-paste code is found while working on another

(Tony Patton) I’m always a bit apprehensive when moving to a new development tool or a new version of an existing tool because of the possibility of breaking existing code and projects. Little did I know that migrating to Visual Studio 2008 would be such a breeze.

(Naresh Rohra) Yes, you read that right. With .NET 3.0, you can extend any existing CLR type by adding one or more public methods to it—without recompiling the library. These new members are available only to the assembly that defines the methods, a feature known as “extension methods.”

(Jagadish Chaterjee) This is an introductory article that focuses on designing LINQ to SQL objects using the LINQ to SQL Designer in Visual Studio 2008. Apart from designing, we will concentrate on fetching and updating databases using the model created with Designer.

(Eric Landes) This series introduces the reader to creating custom reports for TFS utilizing Reporting Services. In Part 1 of our series we covered 2 reports: A Story details report to allow you to print out your stories to post up in your war room and a current iteration report to report the statu

(Graham Kent) Very often when investigating ASP.NET or other .NET performance issues we find threads stuck waiting for SQL Server or some other database to respond.

(Michael Livshitz) I think all of us have had a few minutes of “respite” between projects, when you can look back and ask yourself: “What a line of the code I have written, which I have searched so for a lot of time? May be I will tell my friend about it !”. This is some kind of “tips”, which […]

(Dr. WPF) Have you ever wished an element could have a parent that was neither visual nor logical? Okay, let me ask that another way… Have you ever seen either of the following exceptions?