This ASP.NET tutorial shows how to use the free Microsoft Chart Controls in an ASP.NET MVC application.

WebMatrix is a lightweight tool released by Microsoft that can be used effectively for website development and also to create and deploy personal websites.In this article we will look at the preface of WebMatrix and build a sample ASP.NET framework website using it.

Microsoft tells Windows Phone 7 developers that the tools they'll need to write for the new platform are now final, which means beta tools will no longer work.

Learn how to easily deploy and manage Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services with Windows Server AppFabric. The new packaging and import/export tools make it easy to migrate and manage your service from dev to QA to production.

This ASP.NET tutorial explores two techniques for determining the size of an ASP.NET page's view state footprint and displaying a warning if it exceeds a certain threshold.

Learn how to configure the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Routing Service for common service scenarios.

Learn to use the features of WebMatrix, a new website development tool, by creating a simple ASP.NET framework website.

With so many web developers looking into iPhone and iPad development, the Objective-C programming language has suddenly fallen into the spotlight. In this article we'll take a look at five things you need to know about programming Objective-C.

This ASP.NET tutorial looks at using Microsoft's free ASP.NET Ajax framework to build interactive user interfaces. This installment looks at how to rebind client-side event handlers to the elements within an UpdatePanel after a partial page postback.

Learn how to use table-valued parameters, introduced in SQL Server 2008, to boost the performance and scalability of your .NET framework applications. You'll also see an example of how to create and use the user-defined type.

Learn to leverage Silverlight 4 as a view and take advantage of its asynchronous capabilities to retrieve data from ASP.NET MVC applications.

Read along as Arun Karthick illustrates the ADO.NET Data Services features and how to utilize them in your data-centric projects.

This ASP.NET tutorial shows how to create a simple, online file browser using the ASP.NET framework and the GridView control.

Part three of a series that illustrates using WCF to communicate between a Windows service and client application.

Use Dependency Injection to add flexibility and extensibility to your ASP.NET MVC applications.

BizTalk Server is Microsoft's answer to Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and communications within a business-to-business (B2B) setting. This article explores the possibilities .NET developers have for writing custom applications for this large-scale solution.

Explore the duplex service and see how Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides the support to build it and then build a sample application using what we've learned.

Windows installer has its own way to display installer user interface which is far different from other technologies. MSI supports few controls compared to .Net or other platform. Though it is not very difficult, still it is hard job to develop sophisticated installation package with good user interface, even after using well known installer software. NvnInstaller.MsiDotNet api makes this job easier.

This ASP.NET tutorial--the second in a two-part series--continues to explore how to implement the WebForms Store Locator application created in an earlier tutorial using ASP.NET MVC. This article examines displaying the nearby stores in a grid and map.

Read along as we showcase ten of the best controls included in the ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit.

Interest builds among app developers as the final release of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 dev tools gets its release date.

Part two of a series that illustrates using WCF to communicate between a Windows service and client application.

Part one of a series that illustrates using WCF to communicate between a Windows service and client application.

Microsoft has recently released version 1.2 of the Microsoft Azure SDK and Microsoft Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.2. They have continued to release updated SDKs and new features on an aggressive pace. In this article we will walk through the new features of the updated tools and SDK.

Leverage the features of the policy injection block to better manage the cross cutting concerns in your ASP.NET Applications with minimal code clutter.

The company's developer tool for non-programmers makes its public beta appearance nearly a week ahead of schedule, but only for MSDN subscribers.

This ASP.NET tutorial, shows how to implement the WebForms Store Locator application created in an earlier article using ASP.NET MVC.

Learn to leverage the power of Infragistics, a third-party control provider for the .NET Framework and extension methods.

Read along as we walk through and create a small sample with the slide show extender which is an important control in the Ajax control kit.

Guide to build and test a simple web service in workflow foundation 4.0

This ASP.NET tutorial explains how to simplify filtering data using the QueryExtender control, new to ASP.NET 4.

Learn how to design custom PowerShell CmdLets and providers that leverage the PowerShell pipeline.

This article, by Scott Mitchell, shows various techniques for creating descriptive textual entries for enumeration members.

Read along to learn the nuts and bolts of how to consume an RSS feed from the CodeGuru.com website using the .NET framework. It demonstrates a simple object model for holding the content and how to read it using the System.Net.WebRequest.

Learn to use WPF animations to create complex screen transitions with ease.

Windows Presentation Foundation or WPF, a graphical system used for rendering rich user interfaces, has redefined it's UI Elements. WPF now brings together all of the elements of application services including, user interfaces, 2D & 3D drawing, fixed & adaptive documents, advanced typography, graphics and more.

Learn how the SQL server reporting service allows ASP.NET developers to design and deploy interactive data driven reports in different formats like Excel, PDF, CSV, XML, TIFF and HTML.

This ASP.NET tutorial shows various techniques you can use to remove duplicate URLs from your website.

Read along as we break down the newest features in Silverlight 4 and see how they can be used in application development to design and implement applications with intuitive user interfaces that support rich graphics and media.

See why this aging platform manages to stay successful in the business world and how Windows Mobile 6.5 stacks up against it's competitors.

This ASP.NET tutorial walks through getting started with Microsoft's free SEO Toolkit. Learn how to analyze and implement SEO suggestions to improve your site's ranking.

Learn how to add context menus to Windows Forms at the design and runtime level using Microsoft Visual Studio.

Microsoft rolls out an update to its Productivity Power Tools, a set of extensions to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 designed to make developers' lives easier.

Microsoft Dynamics AX is an ERP application aimed at larger organizations. For developers, Dynamics AX provides many interesting options. This article explores the development possibilities on this versatile platform, and introduces you to developing for Dynamics AX with .NET framework 4 and the X++ programming language.

Learn how to integrate the Bing search feature into your ASP.NET application.

This ASP.NET tutorial explores how to selectively disable view state using ASP.NET 4's new ViewStateMode property.

At Worldwide Partner Conference, COO Kevin Turner talks up Microsoft's cloud strategy, takes potshots at competitors such as Google and Apple.

This article and the accompanying resources are a good starting point for learning how to design and debug a .NET Framework PowerShell Provider.

Ever since the release of the Object Relational Mapping framework NHibernate, there has been a constant buzz to evaluate its performance and features. With Microsoft joining the battle with ADO.NET Entity Framework, the ever asked question becomes interestingly difficult and that is "to NHibernate or not?" This paper illustrates advantages and disadvantages of using NHibernate. Apart from highlighting pros and cons this paper also evaluates few open source tools related to NHibernate development.

If you're developing using C# programming on Windows and need to make those apps cross platform you'll want to get intimately familiar with Novell's Mono project. Read along as we look at the tools available from Novell to develop and test your applications.