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In this article we'll look at one approach to building Conway's Game Of Life with XAML and WPF. Full source code included!

The Profile object in ASP.NET 2.0 saves us from writing tables, stored procedures, and classes to manage user settings.

The extensible provider model in ASP.NET 2.0 implements features we’ve all needed for out applications over the years – like membership and role management. In this article we will concentrate on role providers.

In Part I of this article we will delve into the provider architecture and the MembershipProvider features in ASP.NET 2.0.

This article provides an overview of the tools and features for debugging applications with Visual Studio 2005.

This article will provide an in-depth look at the Themes feature in ASP.NET.

ASP.NET gives us three techniques to move processing to a new form: client redirection, a server-side transfer, and a cross page post back. In this article we will take a closer look at these three techniques.

Master pages in ASP.NET are the key to building a professional web application with a consistent, easy to maintain layout.

.NET 2.0 allows us to read, write, and encrypt sections in configuration files. In this article we will look into the configuration API to prepare for issues regarding permissions, key management, and application restarts.

In this article we will explore the benefits and caveats around pre-compilation and the new aspnet_compiler tool.

Read a sample chapter from Packt Publishing's book on DotNetNuke. The book is a practical guide to creating and maintaining your own website with DotNetNuke, the free, open source evolution of Microsoft's IBuySpy Portal

ASP.NET 2.0 continues to offer code-behind and single file models for ASP.NET web form development, but picking a winner between the two is a difficult task.

This article will build a DataGrid including a column of CheckBox controls that allows a user to select multiple rows for a detail view. One way to achieve this functionality without resorting to dynamic SQL is to use the IN operator.

Table variables allow you to store a resultset in SQL Server without the overhead of declaring and cleaning up a temporary table. In this article, we will highlight the features and advantages of the table variable data type.

You’ll find many sources of .NET technical questions and programming challenges on the Internet, but what else should you know about a candidate before make a hire or no-hire decision?

This article provides a look at the two control namespaces inside of .NET and explains which set of controls to use to meet your application requirements.

In this article we will review a couple of pratices to keep your runtime configuration information flexible.

Keeping your files in a version control system is not just for team developers – even solo developers can benefit. This article provides an introduction to source control features and terminology to get you started.

In addition to architecture and code, team communication is a key ingredient in software development. In this article we will highlight some tips to for having an effective status meeting.

This article continues our exploration of thread safe (and thread unsafe) members in .NET.