The Stopwatch class in the System.Diagnostics namespace can be used a as a basic tool to profile blocks of .NET code.

(Subodh Sohoni) For the last 15+ years, most organizations doing non-trivial software development have used Visual Source Safe (VSS) for source and version control. On Microsoft platform, it is a very popular SCM. With Team Foundation Server (TFS), Microsoft introduced a much better mechanism for so

(Eric Vogel) In my previous article Clear Cross-Cutting Concerns with Aspect Oriented Programming in .NET, I covered the basics of Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP). Since then I’ve received some feedback asking for ways to utilize AOP for more advanced tasks such as security and threading, and will

When working with user input it is common to check that a string has been provided. With the .NET framework version 4.0, a single method can be used to determine whether such a string is null, empty or contains only white space characters.

(Shantanu) Sometimes, we want users to be able make multiple selections in a combo box (drop down list). This JQuery control does that.

(Ben Nadel) A while back, I made a small website called www.UXMovies.com. The idea of the site was simple – you put in a Google Movies page and UXMovies.com will plot the movies on a sort-of Gantt chart for a visual understanding of when movies start and end in relationship to each other.

(Ged Mead) Here’s a little riddle to start with: When is 100% not 100%? Answer: When it’s the value assigned to the height in an html object containing a Silverlight user control.

(M.S. Srinath) Silverlight is an application framework that allows us to create apps that provide rich interaction in a web environment. One of the most important concepts in this technology that one must clearly understand is databinding. It is a pretty useful concept to display and work with data.

(Itfunda) In this article, we are going to learn how to avoid the Session fixation vulnerability in ASP.NET.

(Dino Esposito) Last month I introduced software contracts as they’re implemented in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4. Known as Code Contracts, software contracts allow you to express formal conditions your code should fulfill to work properly.