(Bertrand Le Roy) Last time, I tried to explain how beer and Lou helped me finally understand monads. I gave a couple of trivial examples. Hopefully now that you have this new functional hammer, everything will start looking like a nail.

(Ben Nadel) I recently signed up for the Beta program of Pusher, a realtime push notification service powered by HTML5 WebSockets. Pusher provides a RESTful web service to which you can POST client notification messages.

(Zeeshan) In the first article, Writing a Debugger Visualizer in WPF: Part 1, we discussed how to create a basic debugger visualizer in WPF. Our visualizer was read-only and supported only one data type. Now let’s extend this concept and try to improve it.

(Mahesh Chand) In WPF, a Visual is an object that is parent class of all user interfaces including UIElement, Containers, Controls, UserControls, and even Viewport3DVisual. If you notice all control or user controls classes, they are inherited from a UIElement class.

(George B Gilbert) The DBIO SQL class library (tgs_dbio_sql.dll) encapsulates one class named C_DBIO_SQL. This class is a plug-in I/O layer for SQL databases which includes the automatic generation of SQL statements.

(Scott Guthrie) Developers today build and test ASP.NET sites and applications using one of two web-servers: –The ASP.NET Development Server that comes built-into Visual Studio –The IIS Web Server that comes built-into Windows

(joydipkanjilal) Microsoft’s ASP.NET is a language and platform-neutral technology, arguably, one of the most successful web technologies ever. You can use it to design and develop web applications that can run on top of the managed environment of .NET Framework and inside the context of the IIS web

(Karl Shifflett) When the Data Sources Window is used to generate the UI, the generated XAML injects design-time information so that the Binding Builder can be used to create bindings for the UI controls.

(Mahesh Chand) An OpenFileDialog control is used to browse and select a file on a computer. A typical Open File Dialog looks like Figure 1 where you can see Windows Explorer like features to navigate through folders and select a file.

(Damon Armstrong) We were meeting with a client recently who was experiencing some major issues with performance with one of their key applications. Their staff had identified the issue as being a disk performance issue – there was simply a ton of data to read and write to disk and it was causing a