(Ben Nadel) What I know about encryption can be summed up as: encrypt(), decrypt(), and hash(). Meaning, I know how to use encryption functions and create one-way hashes; but, my understanding of cryptography doesn’t go much deeper than that.

(Abhijit Jana) ASP.NET 4.0 introduced inbuilt chart controls features. This Chart control has several types like Line, Column, Pie etc. In this post I am going to talk about how you can change the ASP.NET Chart Control Type on the fly.

(Ged Mead) Silverlight is great for binding data sources directly to controls. And if you use a DataTemplate, you can display the data in varied and interesting ways. One small problem that can occur with this though is in those cases where you want to tweak the look of selected items of data depend

(Patrick Steele) My June issue column on Lambda Properties (“Lambda Properties: An Alternative to Subclassing?”) elicited a number of good questions. One of which was simply: What is the performance or memory impact of lambda properties versus inheritance?

(Suprotim Agarwal) The life cycle of an ASP.NET application starts with a request sent by a browser to the Web server like IIS. If you are an ASP.NET developer who creates modules and handlers, it’s important to understand the the HTTP Request Lifecycle in IIS. This article will give you an overview

Watches can be added in Visual Studio to allow the values of variables and expressions to be viewed and automatically refreshed when debugging. Usually watches are limited to local variables. With object IDs, values can be monitored even if out of scope.

(Jim Mischel) Most programs work with at least some constant data. A reporting program, for example, will have constant strings that define column names, report titles, and other such things. A 3D world simulation could include huge tables of object definitions that consist of names, positions, vert

(Ben Nadel) As I’ve talked about before, I am not the biggest fan of ColdFusion scheduled tasks. Or rather, I love the idea of ColdFusion scheduled tasks; but, I don’t like managing them in the ColdFusion Administrator.

(Michael Abernethy) It’s time for another series of articles on jQuery! Since my last series, jQuery has solidified its position as the client-side JavaScript library of choice. This article focuses on the new Globalize plugin.

(Jonathan Wood) ASP.NET WebForms make it very easy to implement AJAX on your web pages. You simple add a ScriptManager control to your page, and then wrap the content to be dynamically updated in an UpdatePanel.