(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, when I was coding my this.jarPaths application-specific URLClassLoader proof-of-concept, I stumbled upon a very interesting feature of ColdFusion. To make the proof-of-concept work, I had to take a user defined function (UDF) located within the Application.cfc component and st

(Ged Mead) One of the great advantages of WPF is that you can place a wide variety of different content in or on its controls. Buttons are no exception, and you can create more interesting looking buttons by combining some of WPF’s graphics features.

(Malcolm Sheridan) In the last couple of weeks, we’ve been able to see what the future holds for ASP.NET MVC with the release of ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1. This is the first public release of MVC 3 and there are some notable additions to the framework. The biggest in my opinion is the new Razor view e

(Scott Mitchell) Last week’s article, Implementing the Store Locator Application Using ASP.NET MVC (Part 1), started a two-part article series that walked through converting my ASP.NET store locator application from WebForms to ASP.NET MVC. Last week’s article stepped through the first tasks in port

(Mahesh Chand) A RadioButton control provides a round interface to select one option from a number of options. Radio buttons are usually placed in a group on a container control such as a Panel or a GroupBox and one of them is selected.

(V.N.S Arun) By default the .NET framework comes with basic Ajax controls like UpdatePanel, UpdateProgress, etc. If you want to make the existing asp.net applications to be ajaxified then the simple and efficient way would be to make use of the extender controls which form the AJAX control toolkit.

Creating user login controls helps to maintain the security of your website. This article will show you how to create them using ASP.NET. It is part of a series on securing your ASP.NET-based website by using role-based security.

(Patrick Steele) This month I’m going to talk about that magical phrase “Inversion of Control” (going forward, I’ll simply refer to it as IoC). There’s lots of buzz in the industry around IoC, as well as around Dependency Injection (DI). They are different concepts, but utilizing IoC usually gives y

(Ben Nadel) A while back, I gave a ColdFusion API presentation at Scotch On The Rocks 2010. While I think the content of the presentation was decent, I don’t think that it had any right being a presentation. As someone accurately described it in a review (sorry, I can’t remember who it was), the pre

(Justin James) Multithreaded application development is a topic I have written about on TechRepublic a number of times. I published a seven-part series on how to write multithreaded code in VB.NET, and I discussed the Parallel Extensions (which shipped with .NET 4), but never with any code samples f