Stephen Chambers Software Tool Design: Remote User Testing If you are developing a software product, you'll know that the sooner you can get feedback from the users, the... 18 August 2008 13 min read
Stephen Chambers Software Tool Design: Design by Sketching Developers can get so used to relying on computers for everything that they can forget how useful it can be... 06 August 2008 12 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna Creating Service-Orientated Data-Access Layers The ADO.Net Data Services framework enables you to provide data services to Web applications that are simple to integrate with... 30 July 2008 13 min read
Heather Fielding Embedding Help so it will be used It is not good enough to make assumptions about the way that users go about getting help when they use... 17 July 2008 11 min read
Vladimir Bodurov Dynamically generating typed objects in .NET When you are binding Data to DataGrid in .NET, this has to be done at design-time. That's fine if you... 14 July 2008 17 min read
John Papa Data and Silverlight 2: Data Binding Silverlight 2 is far more versatile than Silverlight 1. It can handle data-sources with some subtlety. John Papa tackles the... 05 June 2008 12 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna Entity Framework: The Cribsheet Prasanna Amirthalingam provides an overview of Entity Framework and how it can be used. He shows that it can provide... 26 May 2008 18 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna The Why and How of .NET Profiling Amirthalingam Prasanna gives a simple and practical guide about why you need to profile your .NET applications and how you... 12 May 2008 8 min read
Phil Factor Robyn Page NET Performance Cribsheet Robyn and Phil tackle the topic of how to make .NET applications perform well. As usual, they try to take... 11 May 2008 27 min read
Dan Archer Sid: Vicious Dan Archer documents his epic struggle with an apparently simple task of authenticating user credentials. For some reason, a task... 22 April 2008 26 min read
Ben Hall Testing Times Ahead: Extending NUnit If you want to get serious with Unit Testing, then you'll need to understand how to extend the NUnit framework... 14 March 2008 23 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna .NET Collection Management with C# 3.0 Generics in C#, enable you to define classes, interfaces, delegates or methods with placeholders for parameterized types used within. This... 25 February 2008 8 min read
John Bower Silverlight-Speed Loop John Bower steps up a gear, produces a Lamborghini, and examines the process of using a high-speed function loop to... 18 January 2008 15 min read
Andrew Clarke The Waffle Generator Sometimes, silly programs have a less obvious useful purpose. Andrew Clarke takes his classic 'Waffle Generator', and provides it in... 16 January 2008 10 min read
Daniel Penrod Using WebServices with ASP.NET Webservices without tears? Popup maps in your websites? Word-completion? Ajax-based Search-engines? No problems, with Daniel's sample application to guide you.… 14 December 2007 16 min read
Tilman Bregler Extending MSBuild Because MSbuild underpins the Visual Studio 'build' process, you can use MSBuild to explore and extend the build process to... 06 December 2007 15 min read
William Brewer Top HAT If there is one thing that developers and users always seem to disagree on, it is the relative importance of... 13 November 2007 19 min read
James Moore Make sure your .NET applications perform Improving the performance of your application often boils down to rephrasing the problem you are trying to solve. James discusses... 30 October 2007 12 min read
James Moore Integrating with WMI James shows how to add a simple WMI provider to a service so that you can monitor it, and make... 17 October 2007 8 min read
Jonas Stawski Take Row-Level Control of Your GridView The ASP.NET GridView is great for very simple tables, but the real world is not always as straightforward as we... 27 September 2007 10 min read
