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Developing Management Packs for Operation Manager 2007
05/23/2008

By Jeffrey Juday - Using the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Author Console learn how develop a management pack to accompany your application.

Setting Up Unit Testing in Microsoft VSTS 2008
05/12/2008

By Paul Hacker - Discover how easy it is to add unit testing to your Visual Studio 2008 projects with the builtin tools.

Coding Unit Tests in Microsoft VSTS 2008
05/12/2008

By Paul Hacker - Paul shows you how to write the code for unit tests in your Visual Studio projects. (This is part 2 of Unit Testing with VSTS)

Creating Cascading Style Sheets in Visual Studio 2008
04/22/2008

By Dan Rigsby - Discover the tools in Visual Studio for creating and modifying your cascading style sheets.

Introduction to BizTalk Development
04/09/2008

By Jeffrey Juday - Learn the basics of developing with Microsoft BizTalk 2005 R2.

Code Analysis in Visual Studio 2008
03/20/2008

By Paul Hacker - Discover how to do code analysis in both a web-based and a desktop application using Visual Studio 2008.

Building A Web Part
02/25/2008

By Robert Bogue - Discover how to build an ASP.NET 2.0 or SharePoint Web Part.

Keyboard Hooking with Visual Basic .NET
02/08/2008

By Paul Kimmel - Discover how to programmatically intercept and react to keyboard clicks.

Displaying RSS Items with C# and ASP.NET
01/25/2008

By Bradley L. Jones - Learn how to use C# to grab and display individual items from any RSS feed.

Creating a Gel (Glass) Button in Silverlight, Part I
01/08/2008

By Jacob Sanford - Creating Gel buttons doesn't require a graphics designer; it just requires a little Silverlight.

Creating a Gel (Glass) Button in Silverlight, Part II
01/08/2008

By Jacob Sanford - Now that you've learned to create a gel button in Silverlight, let's add some functionality. Discover how to add mouse hover and click functionality.

Social Bookmarking for the Enterprise
12/20/2007

By Bill Hatfield - Discover how to programmatically use a social bookmarking service to share and index tagged information.

Creating a Video Player Using Silverlight
11/13/2007

By Jacob Sanford - While playing a video only takes one line of XAML in Silverlight, creating a video player takes a few more. In under 10 minutes, you can have your own video player up and running.

Using Microsoft's PopFly
10/24/2007

By Bradley L. Jones - Using the PopFly site, you can create mashups in a matter of minutes that take full advantage of the flash and sizzle offered via AJAX and Silverlight.

Using Nested Grids in .NET
10/18/2007

By Paul Kimmel - Get the step-by-step details on how to use nested grids in .NET to provide rich web-client presentations.

Silverlight Login - Wiring Up the HTML Controls
10/01/2007

By Jacob Sanford - In Part 1 you learned how to add HTML controls to your Silverlight application. In Part 2 learn how to wire up the HTML controls.

Building a Gadget for Windows Vista
09/14/2007

By Kiran Sanjeeva - A little XML, a little HTML, and a little scripting is all you need to be on your way to creating your own cool Vista gadget.

Silverlight Login, Part 1
08/23/2007

By Jacob Sanford - Create data input controls that are unfortunately absent from Silverlight's current release. Specifically, see how to create a usable button using available Silverlight objects and then create textboxes using standard HTML controls and a little CSS.

Using Microsoft Silverlight
05/18/2007

By Jacob Sanford - Discover how to manipulate images using Microsoft's Silverlight. If you've not seen Silverlight (WPF/e), then this is a great introduction!

Overview of the Wizard Control in ASP.NET 2.0
04/02/2007

By Curtis Dicken - Learn the basics of the Wizard control and see how it can be applied using a simple real life example.

Effectively Organize the Validations on Your ASP.NET Pages
01/31/2007

By Curtis Dicken - Discover how to make your form validation more user-friendly and reduce screen clutter by effectively using the Validation Summary control.

Passing Information Between Master and Content Pages
01/09/2007

By Jacob J. Sanford - Master the simple, yet elusive, task of passing information between Master Pages and your content using Visual Studio 2005!

Generating and Analyzing Crash Dumps
12/11/2006

By Vipin Aravind - Learn the steps required to generate and analzye applicaton crash dumps using Visual C++.

Building Style Sheets Using Visual Studio 2005
11/28/2006

By Jacob J. Sanford - Using the tools and IntelliSense built into Visual Studio 2005, you can quickly add style sheets to your web pages and applications.

Data Binding to Forms Made Simple in .NET 2.0
08/01/2006

By Wei-Meng Lee Creating a form that displays formatted information from a database is a matter of a few easy steps in .NET 2.0 using Visual Studio 2005.

Using the Class Designer: Adding Inheritance and Associations
06/22/2006

By Bradley L. Jones Learn how to add inheritance to your designs as well as learn the relationship between your applications code and the Class Designer.

First Look at the Class Designer
05/24/2006

By Bradley L. Jones Discover how to visually create the code for your classes in your Visual Studio 2005 applications using the new Class Designer. You'll be visually "drawing" code for your classes quickly and easily!

Using the ASP.NET 2.0 MultiView Control
05/16/2006

By Bill Hatfield See how to create mutliple views on a single Web form. Want tab style functionality? This is an easy solution!

Adding Dynamic Menus with ASP.NET 2.0
04/26/2006

By Bill Hatfield Discover how you can easily add cool pop-up menus to your web applications.

ASP.NET Does AJAX
04/13/2006

By Bill Hatfield AJAX is bringing flexible, dynamic features to the Web. Discover how to add dynamic text displays using AJAX in ASP.NET.

Building Mobile Apps: No Pocket PC Required!
03/20/2006

By Bradley L. Jones Watch and learn how to build your first mobile device application using Visual Studio 2005. No PocketPC required!

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