Learn core Task Parallel Library concepts; including how to use the Task and BlockingCollection classes

HTML is the soul of every web page on the Internet. Stealthily occupying every desktop, it consumes a lot of our time. Read along as we showcase the most common HTML mistakes that we see when designing ASP.NET pages.

A month after causing confusion among developers about its commitment--or lack of it--to its streaming media technology, Microsoft announces a major new version coming soon.

Make use of the Repository Pattern to break the dependencies between your application's domain model and data access code.

This ASP.NET tutorial shows how to build a simple news ticker for your website using jQuery and ASP.NET.

Explore how to use the .NET Framework to respond to the operating system notifications that a new file has been created in a particular directory. Use FTP to upload the file to an FTP site of your choosing and then move the file to an alternate location.

Windows Phone 7 architecture allows developers to choose between two different frameworks for application development. In this article, we see how easy it is to create a Silverlight based application for the Windows Phone 7 platform.

This ASP.NET tutorial looks at using jQuery Templates and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to create an Ajax-enabled user interface for an existing ASP.NET Web Forms application.

.NET Framework 4.0 saw a few changes in the classes in the System.IO System.IO namespaces to make the disk I/O operations better. This article provides an insight to these changes.

Learn how communication between JQuery and WCF works and why this combo is so special, as we create a sample application.

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.

Learn how to bind, custom sort and more with the ObservableCollection in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

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.

This ASP.NET tutorial shows how to expose server-side data using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services and how to consume that data from client-side script using the ASP.NET Ajax Library and jQuery.

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.

Learn how to implement asynchronous operations in your ASP.NET MVC applications.

.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.

Learn to work with the SQL Azure web management portal as we walk through how to, set up firewall access rules, create and delete databases and more.

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.

Read along as we explore the durable services concept in WCF and look at how to implement it by creating an example.

This ASP.NET tutorial shows how to enhance ASP.NET's Membership system to record additional information about each user.

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.

Many companies are adopting Microsoft Azure, and are busy migrating their on-premises ASP.NET web applications for use in the cloud. We will cover five important aspects of migrating an application, including the use of databases, the local file system, and session state.

Microsoft paints a rosy future for cloud computing at its annual developers' conference.

With its announcement on October 11, 2010, Microsoft has pushed out the Windows Phone 7 platform as the newest candidate in the race to capture the mobile market. Learn about the tools needed to build applications on the Windows Phone 7 platform.

This ASP.NET tutorial shows how to expose server-side data with ASP.NET Ajax Web Services and how to consume that data from client-side script using the ASP.NET Ajax Library and jQuery.

Bring agility to your business processes using Windows Workflow 4 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

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

Microsoft Visual Studio now sports the ability to debug dumps of managed applications without delving into the notorious world of windbg and sos.dll. This article explains the new simplified dump debugging experience with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

This ASP.NET tutorial examines different techniques for accessing server-side data from a browser using client-side script.

Learn to improve your load time on image-heavy pages using the ASP.NET Sprite and Image Optimization Framework. It's free and easy to use.

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.

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications are often classified as applications that are resource hungry, and yes they are. However, you can still improve their performance to a greater extent by following few techniques that we'll examine in this tutorial.

FxCop is a great tool for checking coding rule violations in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Microsoft has divided almost 200 + FxCop predefined static tcode analysis rules in different groups and categories. Learn to use these and write customized FxCop rules.

If you're going to develop applications for the iPhone or iPad, you are probably aware of Objective-C. In this article we'll discuss the myriad of options that are available for iPhone and iPad development, some of which focus on Objective-C, and others which allow you to utilize other programming languages.

This ASP.NET tutorial shows how to use the Microsoft Chart Controls to export charts displayed on your web page to image and PDF files that your visitors can download.

WPF lets us discover the rich typographic features available in both the OpenType Fonts. In particular it leverages the ClearType font rendering capabilities which use sub-pixel spacing and anti-aliasing features. Read along to learn a few techniques in WPF that will help you do typography text manipulations.

Learn the practice of using projections in your LINQ statements to ensure you are not over retrieving data values from your Entity Framework model.

Use the power of the Model Binding Framework to validate your ASP.NET MVC applications seamlessly.

The latest version of the Microsoft Web Server, IIS, offers a good amount of features that the ASP.NET developer should capitalize on. Read along as we explores a few such features that will help improve your ASP.NET app development.

Now you can write dynamic programs using C# programming's newest version, 4.0. You can also replace complicated .NET framework reflection code with easier dynamic programs. Using dynamics in C# programming, developers can now make interop and COM object's method calls.

Use this macro to generate backups from Microsoft Visual Studio solution's context menu

Learn how to create ZIP files on the go in an ASP.NET framework application using the free and open-source DotNetZip library.

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