Interesting blog post from May-Jo Foley where she writes about parallel computing projects from Microsoft Research called Dryad and DryadLINQ and how Microsoft envision them to run on Azure.

A simple example of how to use the ASP.NET charting control with jQuery.

Silverlight 3 and associated developer tools have been released!  Visit the Silverlight Community site to download all you need to build great Web experiences with Silverlight 3. You can also learn more by watching the new videos, reviewing the Quickstarts or reading about some success stories and what is new in Silverlight 3.

Create a Line of Business Application using Silverlight 3

In this post, I will explain you how can we show Loading message in asp.net ajax without using Update Progress. Now some one may asked, why do I want to skip Update Progress ? Well, there can be several reasons for this, fist of all you have to work on every single page, and on every update panel to get the update progress working. There are basically three methods of meeting this requirement. Using Master Pages : A very smart way, but not all of us are using them .. right ? Extending Page Class ...(read more)

Common problems and solutions while consuming SSL enabled web services in MS.NET

Short article which explains how to use the Bing API in C#.NET.

Introduction After my previous blog post, “Troubleshoot Silverlight 3 Data Bindings” I got some feedback and while in Phoenix I upgraded the code and have decided to call this Glimpse. This initial release of Glimpse is a proof of concept project.  As I spend more time working wit

Combine a .NET math library and a .NET dynamic programming language to create a Matlab/Mathematica-like interactive environment for math and data analysis.

Simple way to implement country/state/city drop down list in ASP.NET (VB)

I just came across a great blog post by Gary Short of Developer Express who shares his opinion about the Google Chrome OS announcement.  What I really like is the last chapter:

Can we trust Google?
The biggest issue I think that faces Google in this area, however, is one of trust. At the end of the day Google is not an operating system company, it is an advertising company. If you read the EULA that Google issues that cover anything you upload to their severs (and that includes your work in Google Apps) then you will see it gives them quite a lot of rights over it. Ever sent an email to a friend, in Google Mail, recommending a product, only to see ads for that – or competing products – show up the next time you use Google Mail? Think what it could be like once everyone is sending more and more of their data to the Google cloud. Is this what we really want? At the end of the day, it could be this fact, rather than it’s lack of functionality, that retards it’s uptake amongst netbook owners.

Ever sent an email to a friend, in Google Mail, recommending a product, only to see ads for that – or competing products – show up the next time you use Google Mail?
I remember Mario Cardinal saying that he saw that happened when he was using Google Apps.  Because of that and the fact that he gets emails from Microsoft containing NDA stuff, he switched to an hosted Exchange account.

At the end of the day, it could be this fact, rather than it’s lack of functionality, that retards it’s uptake amongst netbook owners.
Nah, people are so mesmerized by Google that they simply don’t see that at all.

In this post, I will explain how to migrate a blog running on Word Press (Self Hosted) to BlogEngine. But before I start let me say, that Word Press simply rocks. The reason why I plan to switch my blog is customization. Since I am a dotnet geek, I really have no great idea of what I can make out of Word Press using PHP and when it comes to Blogging in .net, I guess I made a very right decision to use BlogEngine. It is open source and included all the necessary blogging utilities. The main thing...(read more)

Nesting GridViews without writing any javascript code [ Ajax Driven ]

This article presents the techniques and caveats of building a 3-tire Azure hosted application using Silverlight 3 (presentation tier), .NET RIA services (business logic and data access), and Windows Azure Table (data storage).

This post is for beginners. Many beginners struggle with the concept of an Interface. Over on the Asp.Net forums, where I moderate, the question is asked a surprising number of times. I'm going to try to describe and explain the concept of an Interface…simply and concisely. Let's say we are going

This article describes, how to setup debugging and debug a ASP.NET web application that is hosted on remote IIS Server . Details of msvsmon.exe and its configuration

The article introduces the reader with the MForm webcontrols, a set of controls that provides a very productive and flexible way of creating ASP.NET web forms