Playing and Controlling Video Playback in XAML Silverlight

Using videos in a Silverlight based application is a very exciting feature that come early Silverlight 2. Today we see the most extended Silverlight specially Microsoft added GPU Hardware Acceleration for video and bitmap in Silverlight 3 and now Silverlight 4 supports the output protection for video and audio.

Silverlight Bing Map Control in SharePoint 2010

Silverlight Bing Map Control in SharePoint 2010

In this article we will be seeing how to use Silverlight Bing map control in SharePoint 2010.

Security model of Internet Information Services for ASP.NET

IIS has its own security configuration and even for any request reaching the ASP.NET runtime, IIS verifies the request with it's own security configuration. So the first gatekeeper in the ASP.NET security pipeline is actually IIS. So let us understand those security mechanisms which IIS implements:

Database Binding with Accordion Control

This article demonstrates how to bind an Accordion Control with a database in ASP.Net using Ajax.

We are assuming that you have already completed the installation of the Ajax Toolkit as well as have a basic understanding of coding.

Hosting Mobile WebSite Under IIS

First we have to create a mobile web application. For how to create a mobile web site see my previous article Developing Mobile Pages.

What is Foreground or Background Thread

Threading is a concept we all understand and most of us would have implemented them in real world applications. Here is one more explanation of inner level detail on threads - that is Foreground and Background threads.

Pop Search Form Control in Silverlight

Silverlight is a new and powerful browser plug-in that works with Mac OS, Windows and Linux. It helps you create rich web application that is safe, secure and scalable cross-platform. This article will use Visual Studio 2008 to create Silverlight pop search form control.
System Requirement

Use of Stopwatch Class in C#

Using the following line a new stopwatch object will be created:

System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch myStopWatch = newSystem.Diagnostics.Stopwatch();

The "Start" method will start the stopwatch: