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Exploring GDI+ : Using the Pen

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:01:02 GMT

This post describes how to use the Pen object in drawing and using sepcial characteristics of the pen like DashStyle and LineCaps.

Changing the visual appearance of the control with Silverlight 2 Beta

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Now Silverlight has become quite similar to WPF, it's become easier to change the visual appearance of the controls.With the beta 2 release of Silverlight we've found rich set of controls now to work with.In this demonstration of changing appearance of the controls,I just tried to apply what I learnt from WPF.Those useful styling and Templating of controls by using Style and ControlTemplate.

Repository Base class in SubSonic 2.1

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:01:02 GMT

Rob Conrey shows off how to implement a SubSonic Dal without using the Active Record Pattern.

Building an API with .NET

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:31:02 GMT

This article walks through setting up a simple REST API in C# by creating a custom HttpHandler.

Scott Gu's March 14th Links Collection

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:16:03 GMT

This covers ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, LINQ, and other acronyms

SubSonic: New Project Site Online

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:01:02 GMT

Rob Conery talks about the new SubSonic web site.

DeepZoom in C# - Not just possible, but easy

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:46:02 GMT

DeepZoom is a new technology which has been added to Silverlight 2 which gives you a new and unique way of managing images within your application. It is implemented by the <MultiScaleImage> element in XAML, which, as its name suggests, gives you the facility to control scale and zoom of your images, with Silverlight providing a huge virtual space on which these images can be drawn. This is best described by example. Here you can see an image of a kids science project.

VB.net, oh how I hate thee, let me count the ways...

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:01:02 GMT

A developer who is forced to work in VB.net finally hits the tipping point. Oh, and that developer is me.

Creating screenshot with C#

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Simple way how to create screenshots in Winforms applications for error-logging purposes.

JScript Debugger in Internet Explorer 8

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:01:02 GMT

As Shreesh mentioned in his blog, Internet Explorer 8 has a built-in JScript debugger. . .

Great New Silverlight Control Skins

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Brad Abrams links to some really cool Silverlight control skins from Silverlight lead designer Corrina. They are viewable online, and the source is freely downloadable

LINQ Framework Design Guidelines

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:46:04 GMT

New set of design guidelines from Krzysztof Cwalina's team.

ASP.NET MVC: Securing Your Controller Actions

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:31:02 GMT

Many people on the forums want to know how to best protect Actions on their Controller using Forms Authentication. The MVC Team has done a nice job introducing Filters (using Attributes) to this latest drop of MVC, and in this post I'll show you how to create a filter that can handle security.

Command Window

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:16:04 GMT

A brief introduction the the Command Window.

How to run ASP.Net MVC on top of Mono

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:16:02 GMT

More specific details about how to run MVC on Mono, with a downloadable code sample!

New drop of ASP.NET MVC Framework now available

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:16:03 GMT

Jeff Palermo announces the new release of the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Enabling Design Time Template Editing

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:16:03 GMT

This post describes how to enable design time editing for templated controls.

Adding Auto Format for ASP.NET Custom Controls Design Time

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

This post shows how to add Auto Format.. link in the Smart Tag of the ASP.NET web controls, to give the user of the control a variety of different styles in the design time.

Extracting Icons from Files

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:46:03 GMT

Extracting the icon of any file including executable ones.

Exploring GDI+ : Using The Brush

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:01:02 GMT

This post shows the different types of brushes built in GDI+, how to work with them and how they look.

The ASP.NET Configuration Model

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:16:05 GMT

This post describes the ASP.NET configuration model, shows the all the config files that are used when running an ASP.NET application, describes the merging process and shows some Tools for editing web.config.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 15: Debugging Design Time

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:46:03 GMT

The final part in the series describing how to debug design time support.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 14: Extra Property Tab

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:46:02 GMT

This post shows how to let your custom controls to have an extra tab in the property window by building a new PropertyTab.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 13: Adding Snaplines

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:01:02 GMT

This post shows how to add custom Snaplines for your custom windows controls. Includes a sample and source code.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 12: Adding SmartTag

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:01:02 GMT

This post describes how to add a smart tag panel to your custom control.