(Tony Patton) During a recent project, I found myself in an awkward (though not unique) situation. The client had code in a repository as well as in production, but they were unsure about what functionality had actually been deployed. After lengthy discussions, we decompiled the production Dynamic L

(Jon Box) I recently built a demo for a customer that required some extra fields for each registered user. And if you know anything about ASP.NET 2.0 and going forward, you’re probably thinking that I should or did use the Profile object. And, yes, that is an option – add some field definitions to t

(Nick Wienholt) In last month’s article, “Improve Code Performance with the VSTS Code Profiler,” the VSTS profiler was introduced, and simple techniques for finding performance problems in applications where demonstrated. These simple techniques will scale to a relatively large code base, but for ve

(Dino Esposito) Dynamic Data Controls are a new family of strongly-typed data-oriented controls made available with the first CTP of ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions. Right after installing the package, a brand new project template shows up in your Visual Studio 2008 project box – Dynamic Data Web site. If yo

(Brian Mains) Extension methods are very useful. They help extend the existing objects of .NET by attaching methods to it that it appears that it’s a part of the object, but it’s really not. Let’s look at some extension methods and how they can be useful.

(Mark Dryden) To be quite frank, after 3 months of ASP.NET development, the opportunity to do some down and dirty API programming really appealled to me today. So, the question (as indicated by the title) involved a member wanting to disable the right-click context menu from the Flash ActiveX compon

(Paul Kimmel) Complicated things seem intuitively simple when complexity is cleverly hidden in the open. LINQ is a query language that at its basic is pretty simple to learn to use, but there is a lot of meaning in all of the aspects of a query. Understanding these cleverly hidden meanings will help

(Niranjan Kumar Kandaswamy) Abstraction and Extensibility is an important factor in modern day frameworks. If you are part of any framework team or developing a library that will be used by multiple divisions of your organization or community you will appreciate what I am talking about.

(Jim Mischel) Special cases make code fragile, and the special case handling of Int128.MinValue in the ToString is also annoying. But with the current infrastructure, it’s the best solution I had.

(Scott Guthrie) Last week I did a First Look at Silverlight 2 post that talked about the upcoming Silverlight 2 Beta1 release. In the post I linked to some end-to-end tutorials I’ve written that walk through some of the fundamental programming concepts behind Silverlight and WPF, and demonstrate ho