OpenID, which describes itself as "an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity", has been gaining momentum and getting press in the Identity 2.0 space. The fundamental idea of OpenID is that a URI is necessarily unique and thus a good way to identify users. If you say you...

In my last blog entry I wrote about how to bind data to different ASP.NET 2.0 server controls using the SqlDataSource, XmlDataSource and ObjectDataSource. I also discussed how controls could be embedded in other controls such as the DetailsView using templates and binding expressions. Based upon the...

In my last blog entry I wrote about how to bind data to different ASP.NET 2.0 server controls using the SqlDataSource, XmlDataSource and ObjectDataSource. I also discussed how controls could be embedded in other controls such as the DetailsView using templates and binding expressions. Based upon the...

OpenID, which describes itself as "an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity", has been gaining momentum and getting press in the Identity 2.0 space. The fundamental idea of OpenID is that a URI is necessarily unique and thus a good way to identify users. If you say you...

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides a robust framework that allows Web Services and .NET Remoting applications to be built and consumed using a consistent object model. In this video tutorial I walk through the fundamentals of creating a WCF service exposed through HTTP and IIS. Topics covered...

It's no secret that events and delegates play a crucial role in the .NET framework. Without them it would be hard to handle user input or notify other objects when an action occurs. I get a lot of questions about events and delegates in classes I teach so I decided to put together a video that outlines...

In this video tutorial I walk through the fundamentals of calling Web Services asynchronously from an ASP.NET page using the .NET 2.0 event driven model exposed by Web Service proxy objects. There are several different options for calling Web Services asynchronously including polling, callbacks and wait...

What happens to a Silverlight control if the browser window is resized? What happens to the Silverlight control if its containing HTML is resized? What happens if the inner content of the Silverlight control is resized? This video demonstrates the answers to these questions, and then explains how we...

Need dynamic data in your Silverlight application? Want to create a nice interactive experience for users of your site? In my latest video, I demonstrate how to generate XAML dynamically on the server based on user input - and serving that content through AJAX via Page Methods .

How can you make one UIElement in Silverlight appear behind or in front of another? How can you provide transparency effects to shapes, text, or videos? How can you clip geometric sections off of visual objects? In this video, you will learn how to accomplish these tasks with common graphic properties...