(Jagadish Chaterjee) This is my fourth (and last) article in the series focusing on the basics of painting shapes in a Silverlight application using both declarative and code-behind methods. In this article, we will cover painting shapes using ImageBrush, VideoBrush and WebBrowserBrush using Silverl

In the previous tutorial we discussed about ASP.Net GridView events for Edit and cancel commands using VB.net code. RowEditing event sets the GridView mode to edit view. RowCancelingEdit event sets the GridView mode back to the read only view.

(Ben Nadel) In my previous post on HTML5’s Cache Manifest, Ray Camden and I got into a great discussion about how pages would interact with resources cached by the Cache Manifest file. I was explaining to him that in my experience, any file that linked to the cache manifest was itself automatically

(Gouri Sohoni) In the last article Creating Reports in Microsoft Excel and Visual Studio 2010 (Team Foundation Server 2010) , we discussed how to create and modify reports with Microsoft Excel and VS 2010. In this article we will see how a report can be created with the help of Business Intelligence

(Rod Stephens) The first part in this two-part article explains how you can modify an image without changing its basic content. It shows how to brighten or darken a picture, increase its contrast, or remove redeye. All of those techniques rely only on the value of the pixel at the point you are mani

(Chris Burrows) Stop me if you’ve heard this one, but here’s some information about how arrays perform, and a neat trick you can do to (possibly) get some performance back.

(Jamil Hallal) This article provides guidance to help you develop an appropriate authentication and authorization strategy for your particular application scenario. Proper design of authentication and authorization eliminates a high percentage of application vulnerabilities. Secure communication is

(Larry Blake) One of the cool new features in Visual Studio 2010 is the Chart control. (A very similar control is available as a free download to work with Visual Studio 2008, but charting is now built into the 4.0 framework. You can find the 2008 version here .) The native support in 4.0 is a bi

(Ben Nadel) After playing with Safari’s SQLite support for use with creating client-side databases, I thought I would try looking into HTML5’s “Cache Manifest” for creating offline web applications. The Cache Manifest is a text file that lists out all of the application resources that need to be cac

(Lockwood Lyon) We are finally getting back to where we should be: designing databases right the first time. There is, however, a small problem: What do we do with current implementations? How do we backfill quality into them?