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Windows Vista Controls for .NET version 1.3 released

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:31:02 GMT

The Windows Vista Controls for .NET 2.0 library is an open-source project which was started in January 2007 and has been released on CodePlex, undergoing several updates and changes. Its latest 1.3 release includes several native Vista common controls which can be included in any WinForms application and includes other features like DWM thumbnails, DWM glass and Task Dialogs.

Why I love F#: Option Types

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:46:02 GMT

Dustin Campbell goes over F# option types. Option types are a simple example of a discriminated (or tagged) union, although understanding that isn't necessary in order to use them. Simply put, an option type wraps a value with information indicating whether or not the value exists. For C# or VB programmers, it may be convenient to think of option types as a mutant cross between .NET 2.0 nullable types and the null object design pattern.

Just Do it! Parallel.Do in ParallelFX

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:31:02 GMT

An example of how to use Parallel.Do in order to efficiently sort items and also how to use Parallel.Do and IParallelEnumerable to Parallelize long running processes.

ASP.NET Runtime Cheat Sheet: HttpRequest, HttpRuntime, and f

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:16:07 GMT

Cheat sheets for retrieving various bits of ASP.NET runtime information, all with live sample values, links to MSDN, and some explanations. Includes source code.

Kigg - A Digg like application developed in ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Learn how to develop a Digg/DotNetKicks like application in ASP.NET MVC, LINQ To SQL and ASP.NET Ajax.

A tale of Parallel.For in ParallelFX

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

An example of how to effectively use Parallel.For in ParallelFX using everyone's favorite topic: matrix multiplication.

jQuery for ASP.NET Mvc - part 2

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:46:02 GMT

All new and improved version of the jquery and asp.net mvc sample..

ParallelMap function using ParallelFX

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:01:02 GMT

Reimplementing the ParallelMap function from a previous post, but this time using ParallelFX

ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:31:02 GMT

Scott gives an update to where ASP.NET MVC is going

Put Down the XmlNode and Step Away From the StringBuilder

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:31:02 GMT

Demonstrates the easiest way of generating and parsing Xml available in the .net framework. No more XmlNodes and no more CleanStringForXml custom utility functions.

CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) operations in Silverlight

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:16:02 GMT

This article describes the simplest way of how to do CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) operations in Silverlight using ADO.NET Data Service (Astoria). There are two ways to communicate with Database in Silverlight. 1) Web Service 2) ADO.NET Data Service. I chose ADO.NET Data Service for this article because RESTful Service and RIA (Rich Internet Application) development are the best match.

10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:31:02 GMT

ASP.NET 2.0 has many secrets, when revealed, can give you big performance and scalability boost. For instance, there are secret bottlenecks in Membership and Profile provider which can be solved easily to make authentication and authorization faster. Furthermore, ASP.NET Http pipeline can be tweaked to avoid executing unnecessary code that gets hit on each and every request...

How to increase application scalability using Plugin Support

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:01:02 GMT

This article discusses implementation details of how to support loading Assemblies in different App-Domains in run time, also how to control the execution and crashes.

Beta2 of the CSS Adapaters for ASP.nET 2.0 released

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:01:02 GMT

Get the new CSS Adapaters -- they make it really easy to use CSS with ASP.NET 2.0 controls and add a lot of new functionality over the Beta 1 version

Integrating Dojo Fisheye and SiteMapDataSource

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:01:01 GMT

A brief 'how-to' integrate the Dojo Fisheye control for web site navigation with the .Net 2.0 SiteMapDataSource. The Fisheye control is similar to the navigation bar you get on Apple MACs.