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  • Drag and Drop with persistence using JQuery

    Ever been on a website that shows off the drag and drop operation? Maybe it allows you to drag and drop the product into a shopping cart. Most of us have been there and were really impressed with the feature. In this article, we will focus on how to create a similar drag and drop functionality to add users to a room.

  • The basics of MVC and MVP

    Clear separation of responsibilities along with a low coupling level is a sign of a well-designed application. Whereas design patterns are proven solutions to reduce coupling between small sets of objects, architectural patterns help to improve a system’s design on the whole. One popular architectural pattern is Model-View-Controller. Originally came from Smalltalk now it has implementations in various languages. In Java for example such frameworks as Spring and Struts have gained high popularity and are widely used. However in .NET world the existing implementations aren’t much spread, being mainly inspired by Java implementations they fit well only for Web applications and are not suitable for Windows thick client applications.

  • Silverlight 2.0: The wait is almost over

    Silverlight 2.0 will provide a subset of the .NET Framework and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) so that developers and designers can build rich Internet applications (RIAs). Silverlight 1.0, which shipped in September, is primarily a media player for video and other content that uses a JavaScript programming model.