In this issue: Boyan Nikolov, Scott Hanselman, Page Brooks, Justin Angel, and John Papa.

In this issue: Rich Griffin, Nikolay Raychev, David Anson, Manish Dalal, and Terence Tsang.

In this issue: Jeff Paries, Rob Houweling, Bart Czernicki, Jeff Wilcox, Dan Wahlin, Peter Bromberg, Gerard Leblanc, and Dave Burke.

This article came out of a post on the Microsoft forums concerning how to handle team builds of subsystems. The post can be found here, look up the original post to see the problem in detail. Some …

You can very easily tell when I'm excited by a technology. I get very emphatic when talking about technologies that I 'get'. Oslo is one of those. When I was planning my trip to the PDC this year, …

Programmers need to debug, which sometimes requires identification of points in your program where a programmer would like to insert code that would help him/her to debug his/her code efficiently. …

Creating custom controls is not as difficult as they actually appear, but before we go creating custom controls lets first look at the difference between Custom Controls (CC) and Custom User-Contro…

An inherent problem with AJAX-style applications is browser navigation. AJAX pages don’t post back when performing requests tasks so they can’t remember their “previous states”. The problem comes w…

In this issue: Jeff Handley, David Anson, Jafar Husain, Justin Angel, Beatriz Stollnitz, Scott Barnes, Chris Anderson, Dave Burke, Bart Czernicki, Terence Tsang, Ben Waggoner, The Silverlight SDK, …

Using “Update to a local variable” to calculate running totals in SQL.

A few minutes ago, Microsoft released a brand new suite of controls for Silverlight. The list is impressive! From now on, you can download these controls, the documentation and samples, and start c…

I occasionally receive letters sent out to the Industry Executives from the top dogs at Microsoft. Here’s the one I just received outlining their newest initiative called Windows Azure, which was j…

I recently had a problem with Excel 2007 where the cell contents did not show. I could see the contents in Print Preview and in the formula bar.

A long, long time ago in a galaxy far far away, a developer at Microsoft named Scott Hanselman decided to learn WPF. And so he set out upon the Great BabySmash Experiment.

In this issue: Cote, Ivan Dragoev, Hannah Watkins, Fons Sonnemans, Bart Czernicki, Jeff Prosise, Dave Burke, Adam Kinney, Manish Dalal, Mike Snow, Jeff Wilcox, Karl Shifflett, Terence Tsang, and Im…

In this issue: Tim Heuer, Jeff Prosise, Jeff Weber, and Jesse Liberty.

I've known Kirstin pretty much since she came to Magenic, and she's one of the smartest (and most energetic) people I know. Shortly after joining our team, she was off and running and hasn't slowed…

If you’ve used delegates while programming you probably know about covariance and contravariance in delegates that provide a degree of flexibility when you match method signatures with delegate types.

An interesting question arose today of how to read property values from the HttpContext class dynamically.

Opacity Masks are a great addition to Silverlight even thought it was there from the beginning, they are not as much helpful as otherwise they might be due to the lack of brushes in Silverlight (co…