(Abhishek Bhat) JQuery is a Javascript library which is used extensively for client side validation and manipulation of Dom elements. It is a light weight, cross browser compatible and is a repository of many reusable Javascript functions. To learn JQuery, we should have awareness of Html, CSS and J

(Mike Brind) The existing data access story for WebMatrix is the Database Helper. Microsoft’s recommended data access technology going forward is the Entity Framework (EF). This article explores how to use the Code First capability offered by EF within an ASP.NET Web Pages application.

(Keyvan Nayyeri) To be fair, I can’t call it very high quality because it’s just high quality and there isn’t anything higher than high, however, as I’ll discuss later, since this has a higher quality than the existing techniques for high quality resizing, I’d call it very high quality to help searc

The seventh part of the Parallel Programming in .NET tutorial starts a look at the options that the Task Parallel Library provides for task decomposition. This article describes the Parallel.Invoke method, which can execute several delegates in parallel.

(Peter Vogel) Retrieving data from the GridView can involve passing integer values to the GridView’s Rows and Cells properties—resulting in code that’s not only hard to read but brittle: it will break as soon as you add, remove, or reorder the columns in the GridView. But there’s an easy way to pull

(SSDiver2112) A color picker… isn’t there a bunch of those out there already? Yeah, but none of them were really what I needed. There are some cool ones, but they were either too big, or too limited.

(Vishal Nayan) From Wikipedia: A unit is a piece of code or usually method that invokes another piece of code and checks the correctness of some assumptions afterward. If the assumptions turn out to be wrong, the unit test has failed. A unit test is a method or function.

(Ged Mead) I tweaked this code a while back when I just wanted to take a screenshot of the contents of a ListView. Essentially, it just uses BitBlt to grab all the required content, stores it as a temporary image, and then uses the standard PrintPage method to print it out.

(Mahesh Sabnis) A couple of months ago, I was working on a requirement using Silverlight 4, which contained a ListBox with Employees information in it. This ListBox contained Employee’s category information like Manager, Operator etc and the data was displayed in the ListBox using DataTemplates. A p

(Simon Cooper) To many people, System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary is just a useful collection. In this post, I’ll be looking inside that collection and see how it really works.