(Brian Mains) CodeSmith generates code the way you want it. It uses at template that is a mix of static text and dynamic scripts to create whatever you want it to create. The dynamic scripting in CodeSmith Studio resembles both ASP scripting tags and .NET inline ASPX code. CodeSmith Studio, as depi

(Tony Patton) The struggle between the standards community and Microsoft is ongoing. There has been significant progress, as evident with the recent news of the next version of Internet Explorer moving towards compliance.

(Miguel A. Castro) Today’s customers demand easier-to-modify and more flexible applications than ever before. In this article, I will show you how to design applications with extensibility points so that they will grow with the clients’ needs as well as provide a way to “swap” functionality in and o

(Scott Guthrie) A few months ago I did a .NET Web Product Roadmap blog post where I outlined some of the product plans we have to build on top of the web development features we’ve shipped with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.

(Ged Mead) This is something that seems to come up fairly often in the Forums. Someone wants to test for a particular value in a ListBox and if the list does (or doesn’t) contain the value then that item is to be deleted.

(Jay Miller) Using the FileSystemWatcher class provides you with a very simple but flexible way to monitor the file system. It can be used to monitor directories, individual files, or groups of files. It also can be configured only to notify your application of certain types of changes. For this exa

(Tess Fernandez) I was helping a colleague with an interesting case yesterday concerning a memory leak in IE when using winforms usercontrols.

(Eric Landes) In managing projects, I have come to utilize Agile Project Management methods to effectively manage software projects. When I say manage software projects, my definition of managing is to lead. No command and control management style enterprise drone. No, I prefer leading by example, a

(Jim Mischel) As you saw back at the beginning of this series, the native integer types implement a large number of .NET interfaces. Those interface implementations aren’t required in order to do “normal” integer operations, but they do allow the types to interact with the rest of the .NET runtime i

(Brad Abrams) While I certainly think there are tons of interesting scenarios for a Silverlight application that takes over the full browser screen, there are also some interesting scenarios for putting Islands of richness on a predominately ASP.NETHTML page. This could be to display video, show