The System.Windows.Controls.Data assembly contains the DataGrid control.  You can use it to display tabular data in your Silverlight 2.0 applications.  While it handles the basics well, it’s still an early release and lacks obvious support for some of the most apparently simple tasks such as settin

Our current project is moving towards the final phase. This is going to be the 1st release, and I am quiet excited to see how team work is transforming a bunch of stickies and tests into a real system. This is how our whiteboard looks like (done-done part was not captured, but it’s definitely there and has a significant amount) and tests result trend based on builds Hudson CI is running.

  Backlog is empty, besides out-of-scope and low-priority items. Low-priority items are items that are “nice” to have, but can be sacrificed in order to have more important things done-done.

An Asp.net textbox to input bank account or credit card numbers or other kind of formatted text

Use of XML File for dynamically storing Data and retriving Data in ASP.net with C#

Multi Remote Desktop Client .NET (.NET 3.5) written in C#.

An extension of the code submitted in the article: "Modal Window in Silverlight". This extension wraps the hosted control in a window frame that provides various modal features.

Who remembers Object Databases? At one time they were going to dominate the programming world. But, as with a lot of over-hyped technology (Lisp, AI, ADA, Virtual Reality) they were destined to a small niche segment of the market. Relational Databases remain king. Why? Because Relational Databases

Build a start page similar to Google IG in 7 nights using ASP.NET Ajax, .NET 3.0, Linq, DLinq and XLinq.

Joe Duffy: Concurrent Programming on Windows: Architecture, Principles, and Patterns (Microsoft .Net Development)Dino Esposito; Andrea Saltarello: Microsoft® .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise (PRO-Developer)Juval Lowy: Programming WCF Services

I haven't been impressed by any new technology in a long time…until I downloaded and tried out the new Microsoft Chart Controls for the .Net Framework. It contains charts for both Forms and Asp.Net applications. It was easy to put this chart in an Asp.Net page:      The Charts home page is here:

A COMET/Reverse Ajax based Web Grid Control, which can be used in ASP .net web application. This control posts the updates to the client based on Server side event(s) there by reducing network round trips.

PC World - Clearwire is teaming up with Google, Cisco Systems and Intel to build a WiMax network in Silicon Valley for software developers to try out new applications on the fourth-generation mobile broadband technology.

Kathleen Dollard has a very good article on  that talks about using Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to  allow customers to add their own forms to our Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) app?   In this simple example she show Read More......(read more)

I just installed the latest Windows SDK for Server 2008 and .NET 3.5 onto a relatively clean development machine (post VS2008 SP1 install) and my Xaml intellisense magically stopped working. I checked the property settings in Visual Studio to see what editor I was using to view Xaml (presuming this

In my last blog post , I walked step by step through a Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack against an ASP.NET MVC web application. This attack is the result of how browsers handle cookies and cross domain form posts and is not specific to any one Read More......(read more)

I wanted a cheap, simple visual indicator similar to a progress bar. Note, not the kind of dynamic progress bar used when updating AJAX pages, more of a single-bar graph. It should have been simple task. My plan was to use a Div as a container, implemented through a panel because they are more conv

How to Create 3DBarChart with Graphics,Bitmap Objects in Asp.net 2.0

A few posts back, I described the new Microsoft Chart Controls for the .Net Framework: Chart Demo.   While playing with the controls a bit over the holidays, I was pleasantly surprised to find you can hook into the paint events while the chart is being rendered. In the code below, I've hooked into

On the ASP.NET forums where I moderate, the poster's IP address is displayed at the bottom of the post. Often I am curious and paste the poster's IP address into an IP locator web page to find out where they are posting from. This was tedious. Once I installed Internet Explorer 8 and saw what accel

Be ready for the next version of Silverlight!

I am so happy to announce that I will give a french Silverlight 3 training at the end of this month in Montreal, Qc.

The Silverlight Tour has already been modified to include Silverlight 3 content. If you want to be ready for the next version of Silverlight, this is the place to be. This three-day workshop is going to teach the latest features of Silverlight as well as the complete Silverlight 2 stack.

When: April 27-29

Where: Montreal, Qc

Registration (Fr): http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx

The new features covered include:

• Out of Browser Support
• Pixel Shaders
• Animation easing
• Hardware Graphic Acceleration
• Behaviours
• Navigation Framework
• Blend 3
• Binding Improvements
• Secure Web Services
• Binary XML Transport
• RIA Services Client Controls
• Preview of RIA Services