(Ed Tittel) One of the more interesting items I’ve come across regarding the new Visual Studio 2008 is the extensibility that its built-in Shell environment offers. In fact, this is such a powerful and compelling toolset for customization that Microsoft has set up a Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX)

(Mike Clark) Ajax advertises the ability to quickly develop web applications which act like window’s stand alone applications by reducing the flicker between post backs. One potential trap, like with all dot-net applications, is that if these applications are not well architectured then they will no

(Dan Wahlin) I’ve been working with the new ListView control in ASP.NET 3.5 combining it with LINQ and Lambda expressions and was finding myself duplicating a lot of code between ItemTemplate and AlternatingItemTemplate templates (I’ll be posting the sample application that demonstrates using LINQ,

(SubKamran) This is an ASP.NET server control that you can customize that will generate a keyword/search/tag cloud given a DataSet.

(Tess Fernandez) Todays debugging puzzle will be a Memory investigation. This time we are going to stress the BuggyBits site to create a high memory usage situation and figure out what caused it. This lab is a bit lengthier because I wanted to show various aspects of a memory investigation. Once

(Assesino) These days layout is very important. ASP.NET supports CSS and adds its own Themes and Skins which provide control based style elements. Uniform layout on your whole site can be guaranteed by using Master Pages.

(Dina Fleet Berry) Most web-based slide show applications depend on a database for some or all of the storage. This application allows you to show pictures from a directory structure without any underlying database. The application uses an ASP.NET 2.0 TreeView control for file system navigation and

(John Mueller) Anyone who’s seen the Ribbon (also known as the Office Fluent User Interface) in Office knows that it’s completely different from the menu and toolbar interface used by applications in the past. After using it for a few hours, you may have even decided that the Ribbon was just a passi

(Thiru Thangarathinam) Any user-centric application you write will require some sort of data integration—at minimum, you’ll need to retrieve some data and display it in the user interface. Often, applications must retrieve data from multiple sources, such as memory collections, relational databases,

(Scott Mitchell) The GridView, DetailsView, and FormView controls all support out of the box paging support that can be enabled at the tick of a checkbox. When configured to enable paging, these controls automatically render a paging interface comprised of LinkButtons, Buttons, or ImageButtons. The