| LINQ To XML And Why You Need To Know It |
| Short introduction to LINQ to XML |
| CryptoLicensing for .NET Product Review |
| You could win a free license of CryptoLicensing for .Net! It is a 100% .Net solution to add licensing, copy-protection and activation capabilities to .Net, Windows Forms (WinForms) and WPF applications, components and controls. |
| Branding SharePoint Search Center to Bing Look & Feel |
| In this article I will show you, step by step, how to brand your search center with tabs and turn it to Bing look and feel. This article comes with a complete downloadable visual studio 2008 solution. |
| How to Get Your Silverlight Pages Indexed By Search Engines |
| Use the HTML DOM to add dynamic Title, Keywords and Description tags to your Silverlight Pages |
| Styling the WPF Calendar to Resemble Outlook's Month View Calendar |
| This article shows how to style the WPF calendar to resemble Microsoft Outlook Calendar in Month view and how to add appointments. |
| Flat file Processing |
| Flat file processing in Biztalk Server |
| Excel Sort Command And Named Range Scramble Prevention |
| Here's a macro framework that prevents Excel's Sort command from scrambling the addresses of single-cell named ranges located in the sorted range which is a troubling problem mentioned by Microsoft in KB58245. |
| WPF Printing and Print Preview |
| This article shows some ways on how to print and preview documents using WPF. |
| Dr. Dotnetsky's Cool .NET Tips and Tricks No. 25 |
| The humble Doctor, Dexter Dotnetsky, is back again with some of his favorite mostly Silverlight related links. |
| SharePoint Application Page with Custom Controls |
| In this article, I will describe the use of Application Pages (_Layouts) and will show you, step by step, how to build your custom Application Page with your own Web Controls |
| ASP.NET AJAX on Microsoft CDN |
| The article describes in detail the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX client library which went on Micrsoft’s CDN recently. An example for creating a web page displaying data using the CDN files as well as using jQuery library from another source to embellish the page with custom styling is also described. |
| Silverlight, WCF, Security And Things You Might Not Know |
| Robbe shares a few thoughts about securing Silverlight applications that reference WCF services. Includes obfuscation, SSL, encryption, security issues with reflection, WCF configurations, etc... |
| EggHeadCafe in Silverlight Release Candidate Now Available |
| This Silverlight application features a 3 dimensional article/forum topic navigation, HTML editor (HTML, SQL Server, C#, and VB.NET keyword highlighter), dockable windows, google search, and a forum watch dashboard. |
| Silverlight 3 WCF-Enabled CodeSnippet app with Amazon SimpleDb |
| An Amazon SimpleDb Silverlight WCF app |
| SharePoint Site Provisioning – The Real World |
| This article will help you to create your own custom site provisioning that integrates your business process and will show you how to add some custom functionalities. |
| WPF DataGrid Custom Paging and Sorting |
| This article shows how to implement custom paging and sorting on a WPF DataGrid. |
| Dr. Dotnetsky's Cool .NET Tips and Tricks #24 |
| Dr. Dexter Dotnetsky returns with a list of the most popular Silverlight - related articles and posts for the past week or so. |
| Web access to EnterpriseDB with Data Access Pages |
| The article describes in detail web enabling data on a Postgres database using Data Access Pages. A linked table to Enterprise DB’s Postgres database provides the data for the data access page. The grouped data access page is created using the design option. |
| WPF And The Model View View Model Pattern |
| A example on how to create a WPF application using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) design pattern. |
| Excel Conditional Hiding Without VBA |
| Excel macros can do just about anything. But what about those times when you can’t use macros? |
| WCF Workflow Services Using External Data Exchange |
| This article shows how to create a WCF service which makes use of a WF workflow library which contains the business logic code. One way to communicate with the workflow from the service operation is by using the external data exchange service. |
| Notify Client Applications Using WCF Callbacks |
| This article shows how to use WCF Callbacks in a client-server scenario where the server notifies connected clients of any event, like changes in database records or message from a client that is broadcasted to other clients. |
| WPF DataGrid as ComboBox Dropdown |
| This article describes how to display the items of a WPF ComboBox inside a DataGrid when the ComboBox is clicked. It also shows how to make the behavior same as that of a normal ComboBox, like clicking the item on the DataGrid should close the ComboBox's popup. |
| Dr. Dotnetsky’s Cool .NET Tips & Tricks No. 23 |
| Dexter chimes in again with some thoughts and a list of good mostly Silverlight links to new content he's found. |
| Silverlight Deployed To SharePoint With Active Directory |
| This code snippet offers a simplistic way to obtain the Active Directory credentials of a user accessing a Silverlight application hosted in a SharePoint page. |
| Silverlight IsolatedStorage Compressed Object Cache |
| One of the most useful features of Silverlight 3 is the IsolatedStorage mechanism, which gives the developer access to the filesystem on the client to store data. Now that Silverlight has matured sufficiently to be used in line – of – business and Enterprise – level applications, having a pre-built facility to serialize, compress, store and load multiple objects in IsolatedStorage can be helpful. |
| BOOK REVIEW: Murach’s ADO.NET 3.5 LINQ and ENTITY FRAMEWORK |
| Peter reviews Murach’s ADO.NET 3.5 LINQ and the Entity Framework, available as two separate books, one for C#, and in a VB.NET version. |
| Dr. Dotnetsky’s Cool .NET Tips and Tricks No.22 |
| Dexter is back with more cool stuff. |
| Book Review: Silverlight 3 Programmer's Reference [Wrox] |
| Peter reviews one of the first good books out on Silverlight 3. |
| How to Make Windows 7 Lean and Mean |
| While Windows 7 has a real "leg up" on it's predecessor Vista, there is still plenty to do to make it even better. |
| Fun with Reflection, DataTable, Classes and SQLHelper |
| Some simple data conversion methods to help with the SQLHelper v2 utility class |