This article explores techniques for building custom server controls that encapsulate Silverlight content. Wrapping Silverlight content into a custom ASP.NET control has several advantages that make it an especially appealing technique. It makes integrating Silverlight content as easy as using any other server-side control, which greatly increases the chances of adoption. The process of adding handlers, setting properties, and calling methods on the Silverlight control is exactly the same as with any other control. And this approach keeps pages free from the clutter of Silverlight-specific JavaScript, making it easier to maintain and deploy.

This article show how to build a service layer that authenticates users of Silverlight 2 and ASP.NET AJAX services to prevent illegal access to sensitive back-end services.

This is part 4 of a six-part series of articles on N-Layer design. In this installment you'll see a few important ways to work with data: Sorting, Paging and Filtering.

As more and more multi-threaded software applications get developed, software development professionals need to adopt new tools, techniques and metrics that can deal with multi-threaded software. Synchronization coverage is a simple, practical way to do this and this article covers a prototype synchronization coverage tool for .NET, called Sync Cover.

When you think of data-driven Web pages, most of the time what you really have in mind is a master-detail view of some cross-related data. Dino builds an example with ASP.NET AJAX 4 and jQuery.

You’re ready to start unit-testing in a more managed, process-oriented way. How do you do it? Let's say, for example, you have Microsoft Team System in place, and you use it for source control and tracking work items. Obviously, you can do much more with Team System, but let's start with the basics. You've tasted enough unit-testing to feel that everyone can benefit from them. Where would you start?

Beef up your testing toolset by learning how to perform HTTP request-response tests of your ASP.NET Web apps using IronPython, a .NET Framework-compliant implementation of Python.

This article explores ways to combine Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and the Inversion of Control (IoC) container Castle Windsor to decouple Views and ViewModels within Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) to make unit testing easy and painless.

Testing is a major activity in any development lifecycle. If we want to effectively use it, the ease of testing should be addressed from the early stages of building the system.

Learn how jQuery Mobile can make it easier for you to “go mobile” with your new or existing ASP.NET Web Forms or MVC Web apps.