.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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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