(Ben Nadel) Recently, I have been working on an old project that has some fairly complex JavaScript interactions. One thing that I am noticing is that my event handlers are getting very complex. When a user clicks on certain elements, the event handler that listens for that “click” event may perform

(Ian Davis) In an earlier column I explored the use of codified build scripts using tools like Albacore and Rake. There is a lot of focus and work going into the migration from XML- and GUI-based build systems to coded build scripts using tools like Rake and Albacore, FAKE, and psake. Leveraging exi

(Daniele Mazzeranghi) Tracing method calls to a log file is a troubleshooting technique used when a standard debug session is not possible (for example when a given problem can only be reproduced in the production enviroment or in the customer’s computer).

(Calvin Hsia) Tooltips are useful. When the mouse hovers over a button a tip can indicate what happens when it’s clicked. The mouse move does not actually invoke the button, but can give information in a passive way.

(Abhijit Jana) In this post I’m going to talk about how we can use ASP.NET 4.0 Chart Control with SQL CE as back-end data base using Entity Framework. I will also show how Visual Studio 2010 SP1 provides new tooling supports for SQL Server CE 4.0. ASP.NET 4.0 introduced inbuilt chart controls featu

Visual Studio provides a large number of tools for use when debugging applications or stepping through code. Possibly the two most commonly used are the Locals and Autos windows, which allow variable values to be inspected and changed.

(Mark Kendall) I was excited about the new data connectivity features (BDC) of SharePoint 2010 when it was first released. In fact, External Lists were a staple in our development shop, and an “everything is a list” was the standard operating procedure SOP.

(Harsh Gupta) I don’t care for the built-in Paging technique for GridView, and neither do many other developers who don’t want to recreate the GridView Control or buy a third party control for the same.

(Ben Nadel) A couple of months ago, when reading JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford, I have to admit that there was some code discussed in the book that really threw my brain through a loop.

(Tanzim Saqib) Production is often like a blackbox to the developers. An ideal server system does not have Visual Studio installed. If it is your website that is hosted in such a server, I hope there are couple ways you trap critical application messages and see how your application is doing.