Dino Esposito Script Loading between HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 Web pages increasingly suffer from JavaScript-library bloat. Because it is difficult to avoid the awkward wait while these libraries load,... 23 December 2015 12 min read
Ben Emmett Entity Framework Performance and What You Can Do About It Without a doubt, Entity Framework is a quick and satisfactory way of producing a database-driven web application. As performance becomes... 16 December 2015 33 min read
Nick Harrison Using Scaffolding to Create MVC Applications with Visual Studio Scaffolding is a great way of kick-starting model-view-controller (MVC) framework development. Visual Studio's MVC Scaffolding uses templates to generate the... 14 December 2015 14 min read
Paulo Morgado What’s New in C# 6 The C# language itself has changed little in version 6, the main importance of the release being the introduction of... 30 November 2015 14 min read
Dino Esposito Tips and Tricks about Razor Partial Views Partial views in ASP.NET MVC allow you to reuse and customise components to act like user controls. They consist of... 23 November 2015 12 min read
Michael Sorens Documenting Your PowerShell Binary Cmdlets Whereas it is easy to provide inline documentation for a normal scripted PowerShell cmdlet or function so as to provide... 17 November 2015 31 min read
Jon Smith Deploying an Entity Framework Database into Production Entity Framework can be useful for getting up and running quickly with a database application, but when it comes to... 17 November 2015 23 min read
Christos Matskas Using SignalR to Create Mobile Applications SignalR isn't just for web applications. It can also provide the basic real-time communications for a connected Windows Universal Application... 16 November 2015 12 min read
Dino Esposito So You Need to Expose JSON Endpoints Even the most experienced programmers can be caught unawares by software they've used for years without trouble. Dino Esposito explains... 15 October 2015 11 min read
Doris Robinson Testing and the Application Lifecycle In application or database development, testing is too often given secondary importance. There are advantages to the whole delivery process... 07 October 2015 19 min read
Casimir Saternos SQL and R Not only can you easily retrieve data from SQL Sources for analysis and visualisation in R, but you can also... 18 September 2015 17 min read
Dino Esposito Monitor Server Tasks with ASP.NET SignalR and Bootstrap Despite the fact that browsers were designed specifically to get information from the server only by requesting or 'pulling' it,... 14 September 2015 13 min read
Michael Sorens The Zen of Code Reviews: Best Practices If you don't feel that you are getting helpful and comprehensive feedback from code reviews, it may well be your... 24 August 2015 12 min read
Casimir Saternos Visualizing Data with R It isn't just the attraction of the huge range of statistical analyses afforded by R that attracts data people to... 24 August 2015 12 min read
David Berry Improving Web Page Performance Visitors to a website are put off by having to wait for pages to load. Additionally, Google uses the metric... 21 August 2015 17 min read
Dino Esposito Selective Updates with ASP.NET SignalR SignalR is great for all those tasks that one would otherwise need to rely on AJAX. However, it is much... 13 August 2015 12 min read
Sunil Pardasani Behaviour Driven Development Part 3 – Benefits of using BDD Programming Methodology Behaviour Driven Development requires the use of ubiquitous language to clearly state the requirements for a software project. As Sunil... 04 August 2015 11 min read
Clive Tong What is DNX? In the past, working in .NET for non-Windows platforms has been dependent on third-party frameworks like Mono. Now, with VS2015... 30 July 2015 6 min read
Christos Matskas An Introduction to Real-Time Communication with SignalR SignalR, from Microsoft, solves many of the problems that come with developing web applications that need a communication channel with... 23 July 2015 10 min read
Dino Esposito Tracking Online Users with SignalR SignalR is all about pushing notifications and data between web server and browser, but you can tap into a by-product... 14 July 2015 11 min read
