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Sharpen your form validation skills using unobtrusive validation in MVC3 and Razor.

Create a custom plug-in to reuse your jQuery code across web pages.

Laura Kihlken demonstrates a few tips that can help you improve your .NET Framework code.

Not quite sure where to start building the code needed for paging data grids within your MVC Site? In this article I will show you how to create a simple and effective pager for use with grids. The pager we create will utilize ASP.NET Ajax to remove the need to postback for each page of data displayed.

Create lightweight test stubs and detours for .NET framework applications using Microsoft's Moles Framework and make your code easily testable and bug free.

In order to take full advantage of the Silverlight platform for your Windows Phone 7 applications, you need to understand the application life cycle of your application. This article discusses the application event flow for Silverlight based WP7 applications.

This ASP.NET tutorial shows how to extend the jQuery / ASP.NET news ticker to allow end users to pause and resume the ticker.

.NET Framework 4.0 saw the introduction of a generic class, System.Collections.Generic.SortedSet, for keeping items in a sorted order. Learn how to put these additions to work for you.

This ASP.NET tutorial shows how to parse and modify HTML documents from an ASP.NET page using the free HTML Agility Pack library.

Task Continuations allows developers to create interdependencies between tasks. The interdependencies can involve simple execution in response to task completion or aggregated exception handling among tasks. Read along to learn more.

The HTML that the ASP.NET page renders is what your client's see first. A first impression is the best impression and CSS plays a vital role. Learn how using these few CSS techniques can help improve the performance of your ASP.NET framework website.

See how you can use the .NET framework to create your own wrapper classes in C# programming to help boost your application performance when accessing a bunch of reference or other look-up type data that you frequently use.

Most developers misuse the facility of exceptions provided by the NET framework. They tend to catch all exceptions when they were expecting only file-based exceptions to be thrown. In some situations, this leads to trapping exceptions which mask state corruption of the managed process. In .NET Framework 4.0, the default implementation has changed for the better, allowing only non-corrupted state exceptions to be handled by default.

The new Windows Phone 7 platform isn't restricted to only C# programming. Microsoft recently released development tools targeting Visual Basic developers. This article discusses how to get the tools and walks through a simple Visual Basic Silverlight project for the Windows Phone 7 platform.

Use the power of ASP.NET Ajax and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to automatically and periodically save webform data and provide an enhanced user experience.

Through the course of 2010 Microsoft has had three major releases of Microsoft Azure, deployed products in all cloud categories including PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS, signed up over 40 million customers and has been innovating non-stop. In this article we will look at what Microsoft has done in the cloud this past year, and muse on where they might be headed.

In the ASP.NET MVC framework the HTML Helper methods play an important role when developing the views. Read this article to learn about building your own HTML helper methods, all while getting to know the various ways of doing it.

In .NET framework 4.0, a new class, MemoryMappedFile, was introduced to facilitate the editing of large files and inter-process communication. Read along to learn more about this new class.

This ASP.NET tutorial is the first in a series that showcases how to displays grids of data in an ASP.NET MVC application. In this inaugural article, Scott Mitchell shows how to display data in a simple grid.

Learn to use ASP.NET Ajax Client Behavior to display a visual indicator for the number of characters entered in a multiline textbox and to enforce the limit on the amount of text entered.

Looking to use ASP.NET MVC but not sure about the time required to build high-level controls? Let Chris Bennett show you how to incorporate jQuery UI to add in some of those high-level controls such as dialogs, date pickers, autocompletes and more.

Leverage the features of Code Access Security to restrict un-trusted code from running in your system.

This ASP.NET tutorial shows how to check and uncheck all checkboxes in a GridView using jQuery.

Learn how .NET Framework 4.0 Parallel Computing will enable an upcoming C# programming feature and make asynchronous coding easier.