Nobody has a doubt that the SliderExtender from the AJAX Control Toolkit is nifty. Automatic persistence of values during partial or full page postbacks, the flexibility of customizing the look and…

I recently profiled a sproc that makes heavy use of the TSQL SUBSTRING function (hundreds of thousands of times) to see how it performs on a SQL 2005 database compared to a SQL 2000 database. Much …

With Windows Sharepoint Services v3 its impossible to have a view of a list or a document library with permissions. Not sure if you can do this in MOSS either. Or may its possible but i don't know …

When creating a new document and in Print Layout, Word sometimes places the cursor right at the top of the page - not catering for the top margin.

Corey Gaudin on The Next Web, Matt Casto's Scrolling Textbox, Martin Mihaylov with an Image Control article, Nikolay Raychev with the ImageSplitter, Scott Morrison with runtime DataGrid columns, Se…

We've just been told we are allowed to say where we are, so, as my colleague Sam Gentile has done, I will :)

John Stockton brings Custom Controls vs User Controls and a Code Camp Session Scheduler, Christoph Husse brings an example of his rich text control, and Ashish Shetty on screen resolution an layout…

If you've ever tried to find a way to display an ESRI ShapeFile on a Virtual Earth map, you'll have probably noticed how little information there is on the Internet about how to accomplish this app…

I've been posting a lot about Silverlight lately, but hey, here is a WPF post, and about WPF integration, no less. Note: To fully understand this article, you should have a basic understanding of W…

Scott Guthrie's weekly list-o-links, LeeOnTech about SL2 GroupBox and Drag/Drop, Dan Waters on DeepZoom, Dan Wahlin on SL2 Sockets, and Silverlight Streaming is updated!

Ola Karlsson with a 2-part animated menu article, Nikolay Raychev on Canvas and Measure/Arrange, Jesse Liberty on Sparkling Podcast, Jonathan Parker's SL2 test page, Michael Palermo video on provid…

Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition that you receive when you purchase a Team Edition with an MSDN Premium Subscription provides for FIVE named users and does not use the CAL model.

Nikolay Raychev Posted about using some SL2 controls: Layout in General, then Canvas, Grid, and StackPanel, Tim Heuer posted materials for a presentation in Anaheim and another Cross Domain article…

Christoph Husse with a non-US TextBox, Jaime Rodriguez on built-in Styling, A SL2 Carousel, and URI Referencing, Dan Wahlin on ItemsControl Templates and 3rdParty SL2 controls.

Suppose you have a tblRoom and tblUserInfo. Now, you need to select all the rooms regardless of whether the room has user information or not. This calls for a LEFT JOIN which will select everything…

According to C# specification interface contain a signature of events but a complete and brief implementation of events through interface is not available on the net.

Margaret of Silverlight SDK has a great tutorial on Custom Panels, Cheryl at Silverlight SDK has a WebClient/HttpWebRequest article, Sam Landstrom at Silverlight SDK demos a SL2 Timer, Michael Sync…

Michael Washington provides a Hello World SL2/DNN, Karen Corby has part 1 of 2 on SL2 and Networking, Laurent Bugnion talks about SL2/JS/Unit Testing, DeepZoom Composer Forum from Expression BLog, …

Formatting numbers so they conform to a specific format can be deceivingly tricky. For example, one of the most common tasks is to format a number for currency display- an integer followed by two d…

On my latest project we're using Perforce for source control and my first tasks have been to set up CruiseControl.Net for continuous integration, and define the branching strategy to use. I'm new t…