You can build rich Silverlight controls without monolithic IDEs; all you need is a little JavaScript, Notepad, and your imagination.
Nearly everything about the the newest version of the RichTextBox has changed except its purpose as a formatting text editor control. Find out how you can take advantage of the new features.
Learning to use and design lookless controls can free your WPF applications from the boring monotony of gray buttons forever.
Free AJAX libraries are multiplying like bunnies in the spring. Here's some guidance to help you sift through the dozens of options and choose the one—or ones—that best suite your environment and objective.
The recently released Yahoo! UI libraries provide cross-browser DHTML and AJAX capabilities with a commercial-friendly BSD License. Unfortunately poor documentation, verbose syntax, and incomplete capabilities mar the experience.
Many government agencies needing HIPAA compliance, such as HUD, require encryption of certain database columns. For systems tracking victims of domestic abuse, it's critical to encrypt personally identifiable data. Fortunately, implementing encrypted database columns is simple using .NET and SQL Sever 2000.
Controls with subtle animated effects can spice up a WinForms UI, but they can also significantly degrade application performance. By caching the rendered states of your controls, you can dramatically reduce the performance penalty.
When the architect job title slipped into the software development lexicon, software engineers became more concerned with building ego-driven monuments than functional skyscrapers.
.NET Remoting provides a powerful way to use remote objects as if they existed locally, using interfaces and the factory pattern.
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