Web development is not just designing and building the logic behind. Its much more that that as you have to take care of aesthetic sense by giving the similar overall look of the site and also the flexibility to change it as and when needed. To fulfill this requirement ASP.NET 2.0 gives a new featur

(David Hayden) This is my 5th tutorial on the new ASP.NET Dynamic Data that ships with the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP. ASP.NET Dynamic Data is an alternative to code generation in helping one build database-driven web applications in a more productive manner.

(John Bower) My first Simple-Talk article on Silverlight is geared towards running through the basic requirements for working with Silverlight, Microsoft’s latest addition to .NET, so as to get you up and running quickly.

(Jeffrey Juday) String pattern matching techniques abound in Computer Science doctrine. Regular Expressions are probably the most well-known string pattern matching syntaxes. Most development tools, languages, frameworks, and libraries on all platforms contain some form of Regular Expression-like fe

(zaletskiy yura) PropertyGrid is a standard component in Windows forms, that is in both 1.0 and 2.0 versions of the .NET Framework. This component allows the developer to display properties for nearly all types of objects without writing any additional code.

(Scott Guthrie) One of the great new features of VS 2008 is its support for framework multi-targeting. This enables you to use VS 2008 on .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5 projects, and does not require you to upgrade your projects to the latest version of the .NET Framework in order to take advantag

(David Catherman) Microsoft has provided many rapid application development (RAD) tools with the Visual Studio 2005 (or 2008) environment. To handle your data access requirements, the typed dataset provides a great deal of functionality, but it has a deficiency that limits separation of layers into

(Brian Mains) There are a few controls in the .NET Framework that support bulk amounts of data. All controls can contain some sort of data, but to show groups of data, to paginate or sort it, and perform some sort of analysis limits the number of control support to the GridView, DetailsView, DataLis

(Abdul) Provider Design Pattern is a new pattern that Microsoft formalized in ASP.NET Whidbey. The pattern was officially named in the summer of 2002 when Microsoft was designing Whidbey’s new Personalization feature.

(Wei-Meng Lee) With the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft has also updated the .NET Compact Framework. Unlike its desktop counterpart, there is no version 3.0 of the .NET Compact Framework. Instead, to align with the .NET Framework versioning on the desktop, the latest version of the .NET Com