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Describes a method to build web pages that provide an ability for the user to change the font size dynamically.

Action filters are a powerful feature of ASP.NET MVC controllers that can help you build aspect-oriented Web solutions. In this issue we dive deeper into creating your own dynamic action filters.

In this article, I have provided sample codes to ensure you could build your own Dynamic Type easily using Reflection.Emit classes.

The article explains a method, how flexible and extendible decorator chains can be build in a generic way. Its power is best seen if it is used with boost::factory and boost::bind.

Learn how .NET Framework programmers can now easily develop apps for the increasing number of small devices that are becoming interconnected—while you build your very own bicycle computer!

IronRuby expert Shay Friedman goes mobile and shows you how to build a Windows Phone 7 app with Microsoft’s implementation of the popular Ruby dynamic language.

Back in May 2010 I wrote a three-part article series titled Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API, which showed how to build a simple store locator application using ASP.NET and the Google Maps API. The application consisted of two ASP.NET pages. In the first page, the user was prompted to enter an address, city, or postal code (screen shot). On postback, the user-entered address was fed into the Google Maps API's geocoding service to determine whether the address, as entered, corresponded to known latitude and longitude coordinates. If it did, the user was redirected to the second page with the address information passed through the querystring. This page then queried the database to find nearby stores and listed them in a grid and as markers on a map (screen shot).

Since the WebForms store locator application was published, several readers have emailed me to ask for an ASP.NET MVC version. I recently decided to port the existing WebForms application to ASP.NET MVC. This article, the first in a two-part series, walks through creating the ASP.NET MVC version of the store locator application and pinpoints some of the more interesting and challenging aspects. This article examines creating the ASP.NET MVC application and building the functionality for the user to enter an address from which to find nearby stores. Part 2 will examine how to show a grid and map of the nearby stores.

The Sync Framework can be used to build apps that synchronize data from any data store using any protocol over a network. We’ll show you how it works and get you started building a custom sync provider.

The article explains how to build a simple custom site map provider.

This article shows how to build plug-ins to simulate logic gates with the FxEngine framework.