I was working with one of the web application localization. I was searching with couple of translator's available with the web. The most popular of them are

1. Google Translation Service

2. Bing Translator Service

I tried using the Google API for the web and it was pretty good. Then in recent times I came across Bing translator and tools link in them gave me the way to implement the Bing API. Bing is making a revolution in the search engines and so I liked to use that here.

Following URL's are referred for this.

Authentication and authorization plays a key role in the web world. Going distributed makes information sharing healthier. But only if it's allowed for the know contact it will be healthy. We can very well see this in the existing web world. We have the memberships and roles for ASP.Net web applications. In addition we also have forms authentication and NTLM authentication.

Going smart client is always best. But considering security it has to be more secure since smart clients attract all the people they can be easily prey to security vulnerabilities.

Merged Resource Dictionaries provide a way to define and split resources into separate files. By locating application resources in external file we can then reuse them between applications. This feature can be helpful in custom control development, but not only.

In Silverlight 2 resources cannot be factored into separate files and that leads to large App.xaml file holding application-wide shared resources. The same problem exists while developing custom controls. All default style keys must be specified in Themes/Generic.xaml which again leads to very large file.

Introduction

In my last article I showed you how easily Silverlight can interact with the HTML DOM. Not only you can execute JavaScript functions from your Silverlight application, but you can also call Silverlight methods from JavaScript. This functionality enables you to create very powerful applications.

As you already know Silverlight runs in a sandbox. This is a special “place” limited for security reasons. It is part of the browser, so Silverlight runs in the browser. Here are some of the limitations of Silverlight:

• You have no direct access to the local resources like printers.

1. Introduction

This is the first article of my series about deep dive into  ADO.NET Data Services. In this article I'm going to show you how to implement your own ADO.NET Data Services proxy with T4 templates.

Source code and database backup

2. Content

2.1 Problem

ADO.NET Data  Services is a very powerful toy, but as many other cool Microsoft technologies it needs some workarounds to become usable in the real world applications.

Most of the problems are connected with the auto generated proxy which is created after the addition of a service reference.

Introduction

Silverlight helps for creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). It runs in the context of the browser. There is an isolated area, called sandbox, which holds the Silverlight application. But why is it necessary to restrict the Silverlight applications in such a way? The answer of this question is pretty simple - because of the security. Running such applications locally is dangerous. They may damage your computer or your data. So, there is a necessity to somehow restrict them. Thus, a Silverlight application runs in the sandbox.

Short Introduction to the RIAs World

Nowadays the web space is full of different sites. Old-fashioned HTML is slowly being replaced by the new Rich Internet Applications (RIA). But why are they so popular? The passion of the RIA technology is that it tends to reform the static HTML sites in order to make them look more like Desktop applications.

Why Silverlight?

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Since the first beta release of Silverlight 2 there was a lot of talk about controls such as TreeView, auto complete TextBox, WrapPanel, DockPanel etc, and because of the high demand some custom controls were created. Two weeks ago the Silverlight Toolkit was released and introduced the so long awaited controls. In this article we'll take a closer look at one of them - the TreeView.

Introduction

I believe that most of you are already familiar with the controls of this type either from their web or desktop experience with technologies such as WPF, WinForms or ASP.NET. But for those who are going to be introduced to this type of controls I'll give a short description: The TreeView is a control with tree structure which main purpose is to display hierarchical data in the form of nodes. Each node that has children can be collapsed and expanded.

In the article about the basic customizations of the DataGrid control we showed how to change the color of the rows and of the alternating rows, how to modify the headers' and the gridlines' visibility. But we haven't mentioned anything about how to change the look of the row when the mouse is over it or when it's selected. Let's take a look how we can achieve that.

Before starting

I won't start directly with the explanation of each thing and step we have to do. Instead I’ll start with a few common things. First there is no specific property for the color of the selected row, as RowBackground and AlternatingRowBackground and the only property that comes in hand is the RowStyle. The Target property of the style must be set to DataGridRow and the thing we have to customize is the Template property. I've tried to do this using the Expression Blend, but I didn’t find a way to get to this Template, so I had to disassemble the System.Windows.Controls.Data.dll and get the template from there. After that I modified what I needed in the VisualStudio.