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Visual Studio LightSwitch is an exciting new product that helps developers quickly and easily build business applications. This article explores the challenge of securing three-tier applications and describes how developers can use the access control features in LightSwitch to secure their applications.

In this second in a series of articles about the Internet of Things, you’ll learn how to leverage the Windows Azure Service Bus, not only to collect information from “things” but also to control them.

The versatile, touch-enabled Thumb control is supported by Silverlight on both the Web and Windows Phone 7. We’’ll show you how to create a shared-code project for both platforms that uses Thumb for both mouse and multi-touch input.

A custom GridView control which provides you an additional facility to group the data in gridview along with the facility to customise the Group Header and Group Footer

This tutorial is intended to explains quickly how to implement Drag and Drop using ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Futures November CTP.

To explain this technology I've created a simple project with a custom Ajax control that implement a Jigsaw Puzzle Game.

The fiinal tutorial on master/detail reports. We'll look at how to display a list of products in a GridView where each row has a Select button. Clicking the Select button will display that product's details in a DetailsView control on the same page.

Everybody who writes native Windows applications knows that the Windows Forms controls provided by Microsoft are a great time-saver for oft-used interface components such as text boxes and drop-down lists. But sometimes we need a reusable form control that does things Microsoft hasn't pre-built for us. Learn to extend existing Windows Forms controls with custom functions that will save you time.

Team Foundation Service Preview provides the ability to run builds entirely in the cloud. Here, the Visual Studio ALM Rangers show how to set up build automation on-premises for scenarios where the development team needs more control of the build machine than is available on Windows Azure.

This project demonstrates an implementation of the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) pattern to create a fully "Designable" Silverlight Video Player. This is not to be confused with a "Skinable" Video Player. A Skinable Video Player allows you to change the look and feel of the buttons that control the player. A Designable player allows a Designer to use ANY set of controls to implement the Video Player.

Developers of LightSwitch applications are not limited to the set of standard UI controls that come “out of the box.” If your application has specific requirements that are not covered by the standard control set, you can use third-party LightSwitch controls or use regular Silverlight controls (also called “custom controls”) to enhance your UI. In this article I will show you how to get started with custom controls and how to make custom controls and screens work together (interact).