Working with HTML5 Canvas
One limitation that website developers often encounter is drawing graphics in the browser. HTML5 does a great job in client side graphic rendering by offering what is known as the canvas. Understanding HTML5 canvas and associated JavaScript objects is important for any ASP.NET developer and this article teaches you just that.
Microsoft Looks to 'Elevate America'
The software giant says its initiative of technology training tools and resources could help millions of people in their quest to find a better job.
Guide to Implement the Factory Pattern in C#
Design Patterns are defined as the existing solutions to recurring problems in software development using programming languages like C#. Factory pattern is one among them. This article focuses on explaining the pattern itself and show casing the software development hurdles that it resolves in C# programming.
What Are Philosophy-Based Design Patterns?
Software engineering is largely about analyzing a portion of the real world and translating it into a software system. What could be a richer source for ideas about reality analysis than philosophy?
Using Facebook and Twitter Helpers in WebMatrix
An ever increasing number of websites are integrating social networks into their pages. Facebook and Twitter Helpers for WebMatrix allow you to easily integrate the respective applications into ASP.NET MVC Razor based websites. This article shows you how.
SpinWait.SpinUntil and the Task Parallel Library
Often blocking and checking is combined with some sort of timeout. SpinUntil, a static method on the SpinWait structure, combines blocking, waiting, and timeouts. New in the .NET Framework 4.0, SpinUntil simplifies many different scenarios involving the Task Parallel Library (TPL). Jeffery Juday shares some common recipes employing SpinUntil alongside TPL.
Integrating Facebook Login with your Website
The most common approach of website authentication is to store membership information into a database and validate users based on their user names and passwords. Bipin Joshi shows you how to use Facebook Helper for WebMatrix to integrate your website authentication with Facebook instead.
Creating Your Own NuGet Package
NuGet is a free, open source package management system for .NET applications. The primary goal of NuGet is to help developers simplify the process of incorporating third party libraries into their .NET applications. This step-by-step article shows what it takes to create your own NuGet package.
Introduction to Entity Framework Code First
Entity Framework (EF) allows you to program against a model, creating models directly at code level. This approach is referred to as Code First because you focus on the source code of the model classes first and let Code First generate the database tables out of those model classes.
Understanding JavaScript Web Workers
Microsoft's recent Windows 8 announcement makes HTML5 and anything HTML5/JavaScript related an important subject for any Windows developer. To most developers HTML is a "tag" based user-interface specification. However, HTML5 is more than just new "tags". Yoked to, but separate from the HTML5 specification is a specification defining background running scripts called Web Workers.
Scaffolding in ASP.NET MVC
Scaffolding involves creating base templates for code or markup of project items through an automated method. In this article Bipin Joshi explains the basics of using the MvcScaffolding package to generate a CRUD interface for a database table.
Building LightSwitch Extensions Part 1
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch version 1.0 is targeted at quickly creating useful line-of-business applications, but it is quite capable of doing much more. The key to rapid development centers around accessing data and presenting it to the user on template-driven screens. Read on to learn more.
Timers and the Task Parallel Library TaskCompletionSource
Developers typically choose a Timer to have an application perform a concurrent background process after some elapsed interval. Wouldn't it be nice to couple results and Timer control in a single class? Task Parallel Library (TPL) includes a class called TaskCompletionSource that enables this scenario.
Auto-detect CSV Separator
CSV files use various characters, such as [,], [;], [\t] as separators. It is hard to build a generic CSV reader when the separator is unknown. This article gives one possible solution for how to figure out which character is used as a separator in CSV file.
DataBinding in Silverlight
Silverlight is the application framework that allows us to create apps that provide rich interaction in a web environment. One of the most important concepts in this technology that one must clearly understand is Databinding. This article will explain the composition, creation and inner workings of databinding in Silverlight.
Connecting Azure Services Using Windows Azure Connect
Windows Azure Connect allows Azure developers to enable IP-level network connectivity between Azure services and external resources. This article discusses how you can go around using Windows Azure Connect to create a virtual network of all our computing assets.
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