Matteo Slaviero AJAX basics with jQuery in ASP.NET ASP.NET now has support for the jQuery JavaScript library. Although ASP.NET integrated AJAX technology by introducing the is the UpdatePanel... 19 May 2010 20 min read
Michael Sorens Essential Tools for the WPF Novice When Michael sets out to do something, there are no half-measures; So when he set out to learn WPF, we... 19 May 2010 18 min read
Phil Factor The Cobra Programming Language There are suddenly a number of strong alternatives to C# or VB. F#, IronPython and Iron Ruby are now joined... 26 April 2010 9 min read
Chris Farrell The Fast Guide to Application Profiling In this sample chapter from his recently released book (co-Authored with Paul Glavich) Chris Farrell gives us a fast overview... 22 April 2010 35 min read
Ludmal De Silva ASP.NET 4.0 Features ASP.NET v4 is released with Visual studio 2010. Web developers are presented with a bewildering range of new features and... 22 April 2010 11 min read
Nick Harrison Back to Basics: Converting a Web Page to a Web Form View ASP.NET developers can learn a lot from MVC practices. This article shows you how to structure a WebPage in an... 20 April 2010 15 min read
Geoffrey Braaf .NET Reflector Pro to the rescue Almost all applications have to interface with components or modules written by somebody else, for which you don't have the... 19 April 2010 6 min read
Edward Elliott Investigating .NET Memory Management and Garbage Collection Investigating a subtle memory leak can be tricky business, but things are made easier by using The .NET framework's tool... 24 March 2010 23 min read
Michael Sorens From WinForm to WPF: A Quick Reference Guide Michael Sorens provides a handy wallchart to help migration between WinForm / WPF, VS 2008 / 2010, and .NET 3.5... 23 March 2010 13 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna Developing your Data Access Layer with ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 Entity Framework has evolved in the light of feedback. ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 is now better able to accommodate different... 23 March 2010 11 min read
Nick Harrison Reflector Pro Cometh Reflector 6 is here. Nick Harrison is a long-time Reflector enthusiast, and has been responsible for writing an add-in. As... 25 February 2010 9 min read
James Johnson Hands-on Entity Framework People keep saying that Entity Framework is simple to learn. Simple? Well, finally, we're going to be forced to agree,... 23 February 2010 11 min read
Carl Niedner ANTS Profiler Saves Me From A Sordid Fate A bit of string concatenation never hurt anybody, right? Think again. Carl Niedner has been designing software since 1983, and... 18 February 2010 5 min read
Nick Harrison Back to Basics: Structuring a Web Page with CSS and ASP.NET Nick explains why such habits as using nested HTML Tables to position content in the right place on the browser... 28 January 2010 15 min read
Michael Sorens Using LINQ Lambda Expressions to Design Customizable Generic Components LINQ makes code easier to write and maintain by abstracting the data source. It provides a uniform way to handle... 27 January 2010 25 min read
Matteo Slaviero Symmetric Encryption Cryptography is an increasing requirement for applications, so it is great that it is part of the .NET framework. Matteo... 04 January 2010 11 min read
Damon Armstrong .NET Developer Basics – Recursive Algorithms Recursion can be a powerful programming technique when used wisely. Some data structures such as tree structures lend themselves far... 24 December 2009 27 min read
Chris Allen Profiling SharePoint with ANTS Performance Profiler 5.2 Using ANTS Performance Profiler with SharePoint has, previously, been possible, but not easy. Version 5.2 of ANTS Performance Profiler changes... 24 December 2009 5 min read
Edward Elliott A Look at Exceptions in .NET Applications Memory dumps are a wonderful way of finding out what caused an exception in a managed .NET application, particularly if... 03 December 2009 22 min read
Michael Sorens Using Three Flavors of LINQ To Populate a TreeView LINQ is a valuable technology. LINQ to XML, LINQ to Objects and LINQ to XSD, in particular, can save valuable... 02 December 2009 23 min read