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Our resident C++ guru continues his exploration of the thread pool, this month examining objects that control the environment in which callbacks execute.

Application facilitating verbal communication (via speech synthesis) and external device control through eye-blink detection

Label control with built-in effects like MouseOver, Shadow, Outer Glow, and Pulse Glow

Creating Multiple Dynamic Views using View Model Style and the Silverlight Tab Control

In this article we are going to see the use of graphics in Smart Phones and PDA applications.

Charles this month serves up an introduction to XNA programming for Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight coders as he shows you how to build a color scroll control for Windows Phone 7.

Many of the built-in ASP.NET server controls require additional, external resources in order to function properly. For example, when using any of the ASP.NET validation controls, the controls rely on a bevy of JavaScript functions to perform their client-side validation. While each validation control could emit such script directly into the page's content, a more efficient approach would be to package these JavaScript functions into an external JavaScript file and then include that file in the page using <script src="PathToExternalJavaScriptFile" type="text/javascript" >. This would reduce the total page size and would allow the browser to cache the external JavaScript file (rather than having to send the JavaScript code down to the browser on each and every page visit/postback).

Prior to ASP.NET 2.0, such external resources that needed to be accessible to the visitor's browser had to be implemented as actual files on the file system. If you've worked with ASP.NET 1.x's validation controls, your pages have included a reference to a JavaScript file /aspnet_client/system_web/version/WebUIValidation.js and there is an actual file with that name residing in the web application's root. Such external resources hamper deployment - if you deploy your application from the testing server to production, it's imperative that the production server have the same external resources (WebUIValidation.js, in this case), in the same locations in the file system.

To remedy this, ASP.NET 2.0 allows for external resources to be embedded within the control's assembly and then be accessed through a specified URL. With the external images, JavaScript files, CSS files embedded in the control's assembly, deployment is a breeze, as all of the resources are now contained within the assembly (the .dll file). There are no external resources whose file names and location on the file system must map up. Once embedded into the assembly, these resources can be accessed from an ASP.NET 2.0 web page through a special URL (WebResource.axd)..

An ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extender to enhance the ASP.NET GridView to page, select, delete, edit and sort rows with keyboard shortcuts.

This tutorial examines how to use TemplateField to achieve a greater degree of customization with GridView. This tutorial looks also at another way to customize the formatting based on underlying data: by calling formatting methods from within a template.

Paging must be effective for large scaleable application. Without smart and effective paging and sorting for huge amount of data user request take more time and use more resource.