Jeffrey Juday demonstrates some techniques to bridge TPL and WCF exception handling models in the .NET Framework.

With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft started the trend of releasing Visual Studio Ultimate Feature Packs. With the upcoming release of Visual Studio 11, Microsoft intends to continue this trend.

To improve the overall performance and responsiveness of your ASP.NET MVC application, you may wish to execute the code asynchronously. This article discusses both server-side and client-side scenarios and shows how to create asynchronous controllers and use the SessionState attribute.

Windows runtime is designed to provide a platform to create language independent metro style applications that extend the browser experience to the rich Windows experience. Windows runtime uses API metadata , follows the ECMA-335 framework, and also provides a collection of patterns for creating and managing asynchronous operations. Read on to learn more...

One of the new features of Visual Studio 11 is inserting C++ code snippets at a specified insertion point or around a selected block. Visual Studio 11 comes with a set of C++ code snippets but we can create and use our own, as well. Read on to learn more...

Concurrent collections in .NET Framework 4.0 allow developers to create type safe collections as well as thread safe collections. These collection classes form an essential part of the parallel programming feature and are available under the namespace System.Collections.Concurrent. V. N. S. Arun examines the different concurrent collections.

The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.

The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...

The .NET runtime has everything you need to format your output and handle special characters. Both Visual Basic 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 help you with Intellisense if you can't remember the syntax. This article explores simple console input and output and shows you how to get it done.

Jeffrey Juday demonstrates some techniques to bridge TPL and WCF exception handling models in the .NET Framework.

Gartner predicts that by 2013, "Cloud computing will grow to 20% or more of the total IT budget. As a developer, where do your Cloud skills current stand? Have you built your first application yet? Have you even taken thirty minutes to follow one of the walkthroughs that are available?

A Windows 8 Developer Preview was released several months ago and an updated preview is due to be released any time (word on the street is end of February). When you look at Windows 8, and you consider statistics such as the one in my headline, you can see that things could get interesting when Windows 8 hits the market.