Introduction In this tutorial we will look at how ADO.NET Data Services can be used to create services which are consumed by ASP.NET client. We will use Adventure works Lite database as an example to demonstrate the concepts. Code for this article can be downloaded at the bottom of the article. ADO.NET Data Services as [...]

I’ve been using Bing as my main search engine for sometime and I’m very happy with it. Within that plain search box lies a lot of power and many ways to search for information. Here I am sharing some of the ways I use Bing on daily bases. You may find these interesting and see [...]

As a web developer it is hard to ignore the popularity of JQuery. The issue however is that there are too many JQuery plugins available and at times it is hard to decide which one to chose. The Ultimate JQuery List is a fantastic web site which lists hundreds of JQuery plugins with examples. This [...]

 Much awaited Windows 7 went RTM today. Microsoft’s new Operating System is scheduled to be available to available to public around October 22. MSDN and TechNet subscribers will be able to download Windows 7 in next few weeks, most likely around August 6. Comparing to release of Vista this looks much more well executed. Windows [...]

Jim Nakashima has announced the availability of Windows Azure Tools and SDK July 2009 CTP. Here are the download links: Windows Azure Tools For Visual Studio 2008 And Visual Studio 2010 (also includes the SDK). Windows Azure SDK only.   Here is a list of new goodies in July 2009 CTP re-posted from this link.  [...]

One of the things that you will notice when you open an Office 2010 application is that the orb has a new look. This is what the orb looks like in Word 2007 This look has slightly changed now. Here is the orb in Word 2010 The look has also changed when you click on [...]

Microsoft is interested in feedback from those who have access to Office 2010 Technical Preview. And they are asking for it in a nice way. When you install the Technical Preview, you will notice two icons in your Icon Tray. Don’t they look cute? As you can see that there is a smile icon and [...]

Because of my karma and auspicious planetary alignments I got an email yesterday notifying me that I can access Technical Preview of Office 2010. Needless to say that I downloaded a 32bit edition immediately. This is a teaser post with screenshots of Office 2010 setup on Windows XP. Enjoy. Oops         As [...]

Within our Silverlight application if we want to know the URI where our Silverlight content is running, we can tap into System.Windows.Browser namespace. This namespace contains object which are full of Browser related information. This is an example of retrieving the URI from within Silverlight application. <StackPanel x:Name="LayoutRoot" Margin="10"> <TextBlock Text="Your URL is: " /> [...]

Silverlight 3 among its other features includes element to element binding. This was always available in WPF but somehow missing in Silverlight 1 and 2. And now Silverlight 3 has bridged that gap. Element to element binding can reduce code when used properly. In this post I will show you how to use this feature. [...]

Microsoft has released Silverlight 3. Nuff said! Go and get it here.

While writing Silverlight you may come across a need to get information about host browsers within your application. In Silverlight this information is exposed by BrowserInformation class within System.Windows.Browser namespace. BrowserInformation can be accessed through HtmlPage class which also lives in System.Windows.Browser namespace. Here is an example where I am retrieving information about the browser. [...]