There are a lot of different approaches available for Excel Generation on ASP .net, and none of them seems to be a silver bullet… (some of them are limited, some others have an associated license cost, or pay a penaly on performance, ...)

This post tries to shed some light in this area and easy the process of selecting which approach to follow in your web application.

Learn LINQ To SQL and LINQ to XML by example

Simple, step by step, sample about how to generate an RSSFeed using LINQ and LINQ TO SQL in only five lines of code.

When a new technology comes to the market, we, developers, tend to learn "best practices" and "avoiding pitfalls" just by hitting our head into a wall… good geeks (like me :-)) are anxious to play with new stuff and they are tempted to say to his manager/boss/customer things like… "Your application will run twice faster", "We will deliver it in half the time needed"… and forget things like a new technology it’s always a challenge, there is a learning curve…

This post tries to save you some late night pizzas and coffees by showing a bunch of tips learned in real life projects (2 AM in the morning, red eyes, …).

Textblock is not the most documented control in Silverlight… one of the most common things that we developers have to face in our day by day work is to fit a text inside a given width and height.

Visual Studio SP-1 has been released and one of the major updates of this Service Pack is the RTM of the ADO .net Entity Framework. Does this integrate well with the current Beta 2 version of Silverlight + WCF ? ... in theory yes, but in practice...