(Kikoz68) So, how do you manage connection strings in your ASP.NET applications? Since the version 2.0 of ASP.NET the most common answer to this was: By placing them all in the <connectionStrings> section of the root <configuration> node of the web.config.

(Jani Jarvinen) Many of the new features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 are related to developer productivity. And when it comes to the code editor, almost no other window in Visual Studio puts equal hours into the clock. Thus, Microsoft needs to make sure developers are productive, and stay so fro

(Hima Bindu Vejella) Establishing connection to a database is cumbersome and resource burning, most important job in the applications, sometimes it might be slow. Most of the applications need to execute any query on the database server, a connection need to be established. Knowing about the Connect

(wriju) We are working with Relational Database and using ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.0, it is inevitable that we need to load data. EF4 has improved Lazy Loading feature as compared to its previous version. We can also combine both Lazy and Eager loading.

(Anjaiah Keesari) In this chapter you will be learning the basic fundamental concepts of Animations in Silverlight Application, which includes Animation Types, namespace details, classes, objects used, implementation of different types of animations with XAML and with C# code and some more interesti

(JOSUEYERAY) In the first part of this article we learned the different ways that WPF offers us to customize our controls, focusing on styles and control templates. We gave an overview of the basic theory of common elements and resource dictionaries.

(Paul Harrington) The sunset in Seattle was spectacular this evening. My wife and I climbed the water tower in Volunteer Park to look across the Sound as the sun dipped behind the Olympic mountains and, in the space of a few minutes, the sky turned from blue to orange and pink. We both agreed that t

(Vasco Oliveira) This quick article will enable you to take full advantage of the ListView control by creating a simple data model and through a step-by-step incremental approach. I will try to be concise and direct in order for you to keep this article as future development reference.

(Steve Fox) SharePoint development has been a bit of a mystery to many developers, who have felt that developing for the platform was cumbersome and out of their reach. The developer community has also been split over what tool set to use.

(Mike Gold) F# is a functional language, therefore the LINQ functionality in .NET (which is also functional) comes naturally to F#. In this article we will compare LINQ expressions to the equivalent F# expressions for an F# List and show how to use projection, filtering, and other LINQ goodies in