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Learning by example is a great way to get up to speed on new coding techniques. Microsoft has delivered a ton of examples available for download to help you see concrete illustrations of specific features of the new Metro style apps. Read on to learn more. Read More >

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Richard Newcombe looks at how to interact with objects in the 3D world, using a card game as a base. This article only covers the basics, but by the end of the article you will be able to interact with objects in a 3D world using the mouse. Read More >

WCF runtime exposes a few stop points at various stages of execution where the interceptors can be plugged in. These interceptors can help in validating the given parameters, implementing custom serialization, choosing an operation at runtime, etc,. Read through this article to learn about creating and implementing an interceptor for a WCF service.  Read More >

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The downside of the jQuery UI from an ASP.NET perspective is that it is purely a client side library. ASP.NET web forms often rely on server side processing, and configuring the jQuery UI widgets can become tedious in such cases. Bipin Joshi gives you a quick overview of Juice UI components and shows how they can be used in ASP.NET Web Forms applications.  Read More >

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With more and more web applications making use of jQuery and AJAX based techniques for communicating with the server, it's important for developers to have good grasp of jQuery AJAX techniques that can be used in ASP.NET. jQuery offers a variety of ways to make AJAX calls to the server. Read on to learn more. Read More >

The first version of Windows Phone did not have good support for local database support. Vipul Patel shows yhou how application developers can use support for SQLite in their Windows Phone applications. Read More >

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With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft started the trend of releasing Visual Studio Ultimate Feature Packs. With the upcoming release of Visual Studio 11, Microsoft intends to continue this trend.  Read More >

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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a popular file format for documents. Due to their ubiquity and layout capabilities, it's not uncommon for a websites to use PDF technology. For example, an eCommerce store may offer a "printable receipt"... Read More >

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Chances are, at some point you've tried creating a new user account on a website and were told that the username you selected was already taken. This is especially common on very large websites with millions of members, but can happen on smaller websites with common usernames, such as people's names...Read More >

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Many websites display a news ticker of one sort or another. A news ticker is a user interface element that displays a subset of a list of items, cycling through them one at a time after a set interval. In December 2010 I wrote an article titled Use jQuery and ASP.NET to Build a News Ticker...Read More >