The ASP.NET MVC framework is a web application framework implementing the Model View Controller pattern which aims at making tasks like manageability, extensibility and testability of your web application much easier. Read on to learn more about some of the best features in the ASP.NET MVC framework.

Caching is an important element for any application serious about performance and scaling. Windows Server AppFabric provides an easy and clean way to cache your data in a highly available and reliable way.

High-performance computing (HPC) may be coming to a cloud near you as Microsoft makes an important life sciences analysis tool available to run on its Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

.NET Framework 4.0 made code contracts first class citizens by introducing System.Diagnostics.Contracts as part of base class libraries. Code contracts offer a way to express state assumptions in applications and take forms of pre-conditions, post-conditions and object invariants. Read more to learn the underlying internals of how code contracts work.

This ASP.NET tutorial shows a variety of ways to format dates, times and numbers in an ASP.NET application.

Introducing the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Task Parallel Library. Read along to learn core Task Parallel Library concepts; including how to use the Task and BlockingCollection classes.

Microsoft continues to expand its options for customers who want to migrate their applications to the company's cloud, including ones who want to host the cloud themselves.

Will Microsoft jettison its Silverlight cross-platform, cross-browser media streaming technology or not? Microsoft says 'not' -- yet.

Use Microsoft Azure Tools and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 to develop applications that can reside in the cloud.

Explore how to use classes in the .NET Framework to upload images in to your web applications, create consistently sized versions, thumb nails for preview, and then store them for retrieval and use.

There was no intrinsic support for sets in the earlier versions of the .NET framework at the Base Class Library level. With .NET Framework 4.0, Microsoft introduced the tuple class to solve the problem. Read on to learn more.

Learn more about Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch as we count down the 7 best features in this new Microsoft offering.

Need to take advantages of the modern multi-core processors in your application? Start taking advantage of the new features in the .NET Framework 4.0 to easily use those extra cores.

Learn how BlockingCollection, a new .NET Framework 4.0 concurrency friendly data structure, can serve as a mediator between task classes sharing data.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

Read along as we take a look at the TPL, which is implemented in the System.Treading namespace in .NET framework 4.0 and also available for download for .NET Framework 3.5.

This ASP.NET tutorial examines new features added to ASP.NET 4 to aid with search engine optimization (SEO).