Christian Merighi on Tweener, Michael Cameron on Tweener, Jose Fajardo shows how to create a spiral in Expr Design, Sam Landstrom on SL2 animation and creating animation in Code, Imran Shaik with a…

Wanna see something neat? Create an ASPX page in Visual Studio and add a GridView Control. Leave the name as GridView1.

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The strategy pattern is typically used when your programmer's algorithm should be interchangeable with different variations of the algorithm. For example, if you have code that sorts array, under c…

There are some key practices that all Agile developers should be familiar with. In fact, "familiar" probably isn't strong enough. One of these practices is test-driven development (TDD). As one of …

I am twitterpated with twitter. Ok so that is a bit strong but for some reason I am addicted to twitter. What is twitter? Well think of MSN messenger and AOL messenger mashed up with your favorite …

OK so this is my first blogpost (EVER) so I hope it'll be of value to some people. This post is about passing through some information at the client to the server, and how to automate this using th…

I spent most of yesterday trying to figure out how to make use of a NameValueCollection in a.NET configuration file. After wasting almost the entire night fighting with this problem, I thought I wo…

The RootFolder attribute on the Batch element controls the folder of the item. This can be used to access a sub-folder. The structure is Lists/list/folder where folder is optional.

Today I edited a file from our online document repository without first downloading it. I had just clicked "Open" when IE7 prompted me instead of "Save"... I worked on the document using Office 200…

Making ASP.NET AJAX calls to web services has become increasingly popular these days. This approach not only provides a good separation of concerns but also makes it possible to create a truly ajax…

Pete Brown on DPI in Blend, Joe Stagner on SL and Security, Laurence Moroney on DeepZoom in C#, SL Developer Center at Yahoo!, Epression Team Blog posted DeepZoom Composer User's Guide and Example,…

I was looking at the site Visual Studio Gallery at what was available as plug-ins for the new VS2008. Here are some that I know are cool and others that looked rather promising:

OK, so techniques for managing our time are common place such as calendars and to-do lists. But what about managing your thinking?

In my previous post, I gave you the introduction of ADO.NET Data Service. Now I will show you step by step how to create an ADO.NET data service using Visual Studio 2008 and the Entity Framework To…

If you're not living DRY, you're not a good programmer.

gettingstarted The complete re-write for this tutorial for the XNA 2.0 framework has been posted to my site at XNADevelopment.com. In this tutorial I cover all that you need to know to get started …

I am by no means a data warehouse or SSIS expert but I have been forced to learn with one of my latest projects. One of the requirements that came out of the analysis and design phase was a client …

Overview of Libraries in Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1

Visual Studio has ability to delete empty lines in replace operation using regular expressions. 1.Click Ctrl-H (quick replace) 2\. Tick "Use Regular Expressions" 3\. In Find specify ^$\\n 4\. In Re…