Web.config alterations allow a WCF service to feed data to Silverlight applications, but may they may fail for large production data. Find out how to work with large data sets.

Learn the basics of WCF and WCF RIA Services, Microsoft's communication framework and service for developing service-oriented, data-driven applications.

WPF data templates let you determine the pieces a repetitive control uses to display its items. Learn some unique and interesting ways to use data templates for displaying the items in ListBoxes, ComboBoxes, and ListViews.

WPF's properties and styles let you change a control's appearance. Templates let you modify a control at a much more fundamental level, changing the components that make up the control and the way it acts. This article shows how you can use templates to change the fundamental structure of WPF controls.

A dormant giant gets a new lease on life as a .NET-compatible development environment.

When the built-in WCF encoders don't meet your needs, follow this example to create a custom encoder—and just plug it in!

WPF's transformations make it easy to move, scale, or rotate objects, and simplify building complex moveable 3D shapes.

To build realism into 3D scenes, you need to draw with the appropriate materials—and transformations help make the drawing process much simpler.

WPF makes drawing three-dimensional scenes quick and easy.

Building WCF services declaratively in XAML lets you integrate services with workflows and provides flexibility that identical services implemented in code cannot.

Although it's tempting to style your WPF controls directly in their containing XAML files or through code, placing styling in control templates stored in external resource dictionaries offers a robust and reusable alternative.

Change is inevitable, but with a little planning and a few key principles, you can minimize the impact that changes have on your WCF service consumers.

These eight Windows Workflow lessons may save you some time and trouble.

Among many other changes, WPF brings a completely new set of controls. Learn which controls do what and pick up a few tips on getting the most out of them in your WPF applications.

Reporting in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 has been significantly enhanced. Find out how to extend the built-in reporting features and create customized visually-enhanced reports using ASP.NET and Silverlight.

Innovative solutions sometimes require multiple ingredients. Find out how to mix it up with SharePoint, WCF, and Silverlight.

Adding MSMQ to your WCF-based service adds complexity, but any challenges from that complexity are greatly outweighed by the benefits.

With a few simple tricks, even people with little artistic talent can create good-looking, professional, polished applications that leapfrog their competitors' efforts.

Windows Communication Foundation is one of the most important features in the history of .NET. Not only does WCF provide a unified programming model for communications, it also promotes the use of interfaces and various recommended programming practices.

Queues provide a useful isolation layer between a service and a caller (or vice-versa) and become a place for messages waiting to be processed.