Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful tool for creating and delivering rich Internet applications and media experiences on the Web. Silverlight 5 builds on the foundation of Silverlight 4 for building business applications and premium media experiences. Silverlight 5 introduces more than 40 new features, including dramatic video quality and performance improvements as well as features [...]

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Web services can be hosted in IIS as well as outside of the IIS. While WCF service can be hosted in IIS, Windows activation service,Self Hosting,WAS and on lots of proctols like Named Pipe,TCP etc.Here lots of people disagree how we can host the web service outside of the IIS but [...]

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How to get list of all countries and bind to a dropdown list in ASP.NET
Create an ASP.NET application and add a DropDownList to the page something like this.<asp:DropDownList ID=”ddlCountry” runat=”server”></asp:DropDownList>
Now call this GetCountryList method on your page load that will bind and display countries in the DropDownList.
public List GetCountryList()
{
List list = new [...]

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Farm – The base of the SharePoint tree applications, servers, the installation itself.
–> Web Applications – Central Administration is a web app. Each web application has a web.config like any other ASP.net web app, includes databases, dlls, code, virtual directories, a content database, etc. – content databases are managed [...]

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Looking for a place to get started with SharePoint 2010 development? Whether you’re an experienced SharePoint developer or new to SharePoint, on this page you’ll find popular content that you might not have known about.

Top 10 New Developer Features

Business Connectivity Services
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