(Ben Nadel) This is just a quick tip that I recently picked up from watching Paul Irish discuss 10 things that he learned from the jQuery source code. It was a couple of weeks ago, but I don’t believe that this tip was actually something in the jQuery source code; rather, I believe it was just somet

(Peter Vogel) The old rule was, if you wanted to create a program with bugs that you could never hope to track down, you wrote it as a multithreaded application. All that has changed, thanks to the introduction of Microsoft Parallel Extensions for .NET, which provides a layer of abstraction on top o

(Mahesh Chand) An ImageList is a supporting control that is typically used by other controls, such as a ListView but is exposed as a component to developers. We can use this component in our applications when we are building our own controls such as a photo gallery or an image rotator control.

(Damon Armstrong) I’m in the midst of writing some classes that use generics so I figured I would blog about the way static properties work in different situations. This is not ground breaking stuff, but it’s good to be aware of so you know exactly what you are getting in different situations.

(Ged Mead) When you think about how many times we have to deal with dates and times in our everyday lives, you wouldn’t expect that dealing with them in code would be much of a problem. But it seems that this really is a difficult area for many people trying to handle dates and times in their VB.NET

(Scott Guthrie) I’ve blogged in the past about the VS 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions – a free set of Visual Studio 2010 extensions that provide some nice additional functionality.

(Jeremy Likness) The purpose of this post is to provide an introduction to the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. While I’ve participated in lots of discussions online about MVVM, it occurred to me that beginners who are learning the pattern have very little to go on and a lot of conflicting resou

(Scott Mitchell) Back in May 2010 I wrote a three-part article series titled Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API, which showed how to build a simple store locator application using ASP.NET and the Google Maps API. The application consisted of two ASP.NET pages. In the

(Peter Vogel) Just when, after the last three columns, I thought I was done with the ASP.NET menu controls, I got another question: “How can I add a querystring to a menu item?” Unlike the question that triggered the first column in the series (“How to have items in the sitemap file appear in the Si

(Ben Nadel) In Javascript, there are two functions – setTimeout() and setInterval() – that allow you to perform actions in an asynchronous fashion. While setTimeout() executes only once, setInterval() will execute a given function repeatedly at the given interval.