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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.

How to create and style a container control that can be used to create completely ridiculous drop shadows on any contained control.

A managed wrapper for accessing the Vista Core Audio API

Building monolithic code generation solutions is every bit as evil as building a monolithic application. Here are all the ways you can refactor your code generation solution into reusable components.

A XAML-only font combobox.

Jesse Liberty shows the strength of XAML programming as he discusses hands-on code for data binding against runtime data, design-time data and binding one control to another.

The cloud means many things. It means Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, Bing and - oh yes - Windows Azure! Windows Azure, as you know, is Microsoft’s cloud operating system. It consists of many parts, but at a high level you can say it includes Compute (web and worker roles, plus storage), SQL Azure and AppFabric. AppFabric, in turn, consists of AppFabric Access Control, ServiceBus, and Cache. This article concerns ServiceBus, and its integration with SharePoint 2010 and Office 365.

For projects where I need some form of syntax highlighting, I tend to use the open source DigitalRune Text Editor Control which is a modified version of the text editor used in SharpDevelop. While it has a number of syntax definitions built in, the one it didn't have was for CSS formatting.After doi

How to get dynamic behavior out of the PropertyGrid control.

Client-side Zoom Window using JavaScript for Textbox in ASP.NET