(Vince Varallo) One of the new features of SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 is the WPF Viewer. This control makes is easy to integrate your reports into your WPF applications. You still get all the features of the viewer just as if it were a WinForms or ASP.NET application. This article wi

(Greg Shackles) The introduction of the dynamic keyword in C# 4.0 allows you to do a lot of things you couldn’t do otherwise, but it also makes it easy to forget that C# is still not a dynamic language, so there are limitations.

(Anoop Madhusudanan) For some time, I was thinking about leveraging the power of Xaml to create databound images/visualizations in web applications, and did a quick POC implementation of the same. Here is the demonstration. We’ll start from the final output, and see how quickly you can render a Xaml

(Ben Nadel) I’ve been looking through a lot of jQuery source code lately and one of the things that I see being done all over the place is function overloading. Function overloading is the practice in which a function can take different sets of arguments. In a strict language like Java, overloaded f

(Scott Mitchell) The ASP.NET WebForms model aims to simplify web development by blurring the line between the client and the server. In short, WebForms allow the page developer to set aside the fact that the browser and the web server are temporally, physically, and logically disconnected. The page

(Bob Maksimchuk) In the previous article in this series, UML for Project Managers, I discussed how the UML (Unified Modeling Language)is not just a great tool for requirements elicitation, analysis, and design, it also can help the project manager to effectively plan and direct the development cycle

(Ged Mead) If you’re used to using either the AcceptButton or CancelButton properties of a Windows Form, you might wonder where they disappeared to when WPF came along.

(Mahesh Chand) ServiceController class defined in the System.ServiceProcess namespace is used to work with services. ServiceController.GetServices static method gets all services installed on a machine.

(Peter Vogel) In this series on “ASP.NET MVC for the ASP.NET Developer,” I’ve been looking at ASP.NET MVC on its own terms. However, ASP.NET developers have to be asking how to perform typical tasks in this new environment: how to access data that the user enters into the page, how to respond to the

(Aamir Hasan) This article demonstrates how to Deserialize JSON string and bind to an ASP.NET DropDownList control.