(Rick Vanover) If PowerShell’s learning curve has kept you from embracing it for daily use, “cool” might not be a word you’d associate with it. But PowerShell is here to stay. It’s a core part of Exchange 2007, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008, and it has immense power we all need to grasp.

(Scott Mitchell) While the GridView control offer built-in, bi-directional sorting support, there is no visual feedback as to what column the data is sorted by. To remedy this shortcoming, I showed how to create a custom server control that extended the GridView class and automatically added arrow u

(Brian Noyes) Once you choose to develop a .NET application as a smart client application, you have a number of design decisions that you need to tackle. You need to design the presentation layer application (the client) as well as a back-end server architecture. You need to think about security, ho

(Tess Fernandez) Earlier this week I published the first .NET Debugging Demos Lab. If you haven’t downloaded and tried it out you can get it here.

(Keyvan Nayyeri) After the birth of .NET 2.0, the provider model became common in .NET development. Most built-in features that deal with data support providers. Many third party applications, components and libraries are using data providers, too. In my opinion talking about data providers in .NET

(Ken Casada) As you probably know LINQ to SQL supports stored procedure (SP). You can drag&drop a SP in the LINQ to SQL Designer and the magic happens: a new method inside the DataContext class is generated and a new return type is defined by the designer to represent this result (the name of the ty

(Paul Ferrill) Getting popular open source software (OSS) languages running on Microsoft .NET started when Microsoft adapted Python, creating the .NET version called IronPython. The latest OSS project to get the Microsoft treatment is IronRuby, which is part of a new Microsoft focus on dynamic langu

(Ged Mead) Quite often as I browse through the VB.NET Forums on vbCity I see questions about tasks that can be quite difficult in WinForms, but would be much easier to deal with using WPF. One recent question that fits this description is the following one: “I am wondering how I can change a spe

(Nick Wienholt) The Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Profiler ships as part of the Developer Edition product, and is now in its second version with the release of VSTS Team System 2008. The initial release of the VSTS Profiler was the first profiler that shipped as part of the Visual Studio/VSTS pro

(Tess Fernandez) This is the first in a series of about 10 labs on .NET debugging. The lab will use a site called BuggyBits, and as the name suggests the bits are extremely buggy.