For those of you unfamiliar with the idiom, it should be taken to mean "benefiting one at the expense of another. In this case, Paul is the end-user and Peter is the server administrator. Or better yet, Paul is the browser and Peter is the server.

Microsoft liked The Office so much that they decided to hire its creators to do a Microsoft skit and here they are. Have a laugh this Friday!

The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight Web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's Tech.Ed conference in Sydney this week.

Here’s a quick note to self that you may enjoy. I suck at art. Didn’t use to always, but it requires too much brain power. But I’m not bad at getting WPF to draw what I want. I had a logo in mind for this site and used WPF to generate it after unsuccessfully getting Paint.NET to do the same.

This post gives you the basic overview on ASP.NET Models, Views and Controllers. It explains how all parts in MVC Application work together and discuss how the Architecture of an ASP.NET MVC application differs from an ASP.NET Web Forms application.

Yesterday Adobe and the NFL teamed up and announced that Adobe® Flash® will be used to deliver live online video streaming of NBC Sunday Night Football games on NFL.com and NBCSports.com.

In this article, we will discuss 14 DataGridView frequently asked questions and their solutions. These questions have been collected from a variety of sources including some newsgroups, MSDN site and a few, answered by me at the MSDN forums.

Google Chrome has literally spangled the web the last 36 hours, and I have seen most questions being answered, again and again and again. Though the one question people SHOULD ask is yet to be both asked and answered, at least in my view...

Visual Studio Shell was released in January of 2007 without much fanfare. Even though it's free to download, at the time it was not very useful for most developers as few packages had yet been written for it. Now eight months have gone by and quite a few projects are sporting free Visual Studio interfaces. In this article I discuss Visual Studio Shell itself as well as several of the languages which are currently developing shells.

This article explores some very handy and commonly used conversion functions that we encounter in our day to day development. This is the first part of our two part series. I will cover up some other commonly used conversions in the second part.

A short screencasts on Windosor Castle that is meant to get you up to speed with what Windsor can do and how you can use it.

I love technical books and it's hard to resist the temptation buying new ones :-). This fall is especially difficult with four great titles coming up.

PowerPoint exposes a full-featured object model for automating, so there's virtually nothing that you can't do with PowerPoint via Ruby code.

In its first month, Apple’s App Store, which sells applications for its iPhone and iPod Touch devices, raked in $30 million, and is on track to do over $300 million in sales by year’s end. Investment firm Piper Jaffray thinks that in 2009, App Store revenues could top $1.2 billion, which would make it a major source of revenue for Apple.

Zooming images in a PictureBox control is not something that comes out of the box. However with a little bit of code, basic emulation of zoom in and zoom out functionality can be achieved quiet easily. In this article, we will explore how to emulate zoom-in and zoom-out, of an image kept in the PictureBox control.

My favourite 10 things about the new IE8 developer tools

The recent Silverlight 2 Beta 2 release it has become easier to access and manipulate database data. Since Silverlight applications cannot directly access local resources data access is provided through web services such as Windows Communications Foundation(WCF) or ASMX. There are many examples demonstrating how to read data and populate data objects but few that provide any facility to write changes back to the data source.

.net has really taken off, especially ASP.net. The question is, are they going at full throttle in the wrong direction?

As I was making the move to Microsoft and the Expression Web team, a number of people asked what drew me to Expression Web. A notion that I believe in with software is that over time, software quality decreases if you are not paying ample attention to it – software entropy. I think this is something that everyone who has been on a software project over time knows. With things like DI, Unit Testing and Continuous Integration, we incorporate tools that promote code quality and even set bars before checkins occur. This keeps everyone’s eyes on quality based on the checks being done during build time. Now why can’t we have this with our website design? This is a key area where Expression Web fit into the picture for me because Expression Web offers up a series of reports for CSS, accessibility and compatibility.

During the past weeks we have been working on preparing the source code for the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 release and we are happy to announce that we just released the following components to the Reference Source Code Center (RSCC) servers

an articale disscuss reasons makes linux can not win against windows in the computer world

Computer programmers sometimes mistake brevity for elegance, especially when discussing the relative merits of programming languages. Haskel partisans, for example, love to show how one can implement QuickSort in one line of inscrutable gibberish that looks like somebody had an epileptic seizure with the caps lock on.

Keeping on with the 6 weeks release plan, the ASP.NET MVC team quietly release P5 of ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex. Some changes happened...

Free tool to make your web pages compatible with IE8 by automating the introduction of the compatibility flag.

I know this will come as a surprise to some of you, but Microsoft Windows really is a terrible operating system. A joke. A bad car accident.