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Do you have a cool personalized application that you want to offer to over 400 million users? Do you want to light it up with Live controls or create a mashup with Live resources?Windows Live ID now offers a simple way for third parties to get Live ID authentication in your Web or rich client applications, letting you reach millions of Live ID users, integrate with Live Controls, and access Live services.

A base class for adding a rich asynchronous progress animation to any Form

Have you ever been faced with the task of displaying multiple pages on the same Windows Form? Most of us would certainly respond in the affirmative, and most of us have addressed this by using the good-old Tab Control. While tabs are undoubtedly a proven way of handling such cases, there are situations calling for a "less generic" approach. What if we need to make our form a bit more visually appealing and use icons or graphical buttons to flip through pages? What if we don't want to display tabs at all? Many familiar applications feature such graphical interfaces; however, the .NET framework offers no built-in tools to accomplish this, at least at the time of this writing.

A SortedList implementations using a cyclic algorithm and C# IDictionary tweaks

The article demonstrating the use of 2D Fast wavelet transform for image processing

XForms is an important recommendation from the W3C that enables complex XML-handling applications to be defined in a simple, declarative syntax. This article demonstrates how you can leverage this power in your own applications.

This article presents an advanced technique that lets you bind multiple editable line items to a collection using Windows Presentation Foundation and the Presentation Model pattern. It assumes you are familiar with basic WPF data binding techniques as well as design patterns that object-oriented UI libraries typically use. After an introduction to the sample application used throughout this article, you'll see how applying the Presentation Model pattern insulates this application's UI and business logic layers from one another. Finally, you'll see the WPF-specific details involved in binding a Presentation Model to XAML controls to create a dynamic UI with multiple editable line items.

A simple performance chart control with multiple series.

The ModalPopupExtender control provided by the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit allows the display of content in a div panel that floats in the middle of the page and prevents the user from interacting with the rest of the page until the div panel has been closed, thus creating a modal form type of entry on a web page. This is really useful technology but I wanted to make a few improvements in this modal form-like interface.

One new features in Visual Studio 2005 is the support for smart tags.A smart tag is a panel that displays next to a control and contains a list of commonly used properties.