Asynchronously running code can improve the overall performance and responsiveness of your web application. In ASP.NET 4.5 web forms applications you can register asynchronous methods with the page framework. The ASP.NET page framework and .NET 4.5 asynchronous programming support then executes the operations in asynchronous fashion. This article shows how this can be done.

Windows Phone developers need to know how the device is connected to the internet. This article walks Windows Phone developers through the process of finding the nature of the connection and how they can leverage it.

IndexedDB, an HTML5 technology, is a non-relational data store designed to store JSON objects in collections known as an Object Store within a Database. Join Chris Bennett to learn how to use IndexedDB in your JavaScript/HTML5 Windows 8 Metro Apps.

For security reasons browsers don't allow cross-domain communication. However, in some legitimate situations cross-domain communication becomes necessary. A common work-around for this restriction is to use JSON with Padding or JSONP. In this article you will learn how JSONP can be used in an ASP.NET MVC application.

Windows Phone devices have built-in accelerometers. This article walks Windows Phone developers through how to leverage the built-in support for accelerometer in their Windows Phone applications.

Unhandled exceptions in the Web API controller class are often indicated as HTTP status code 500, i.e. Internal Server Error. This generic error message is of little use to the client. Bipin Joshi explains how to use Web API to fine tune and customize the HTTP errors that are sent to the client browser.

If you are developer working on applications targeting multiple platforms you might have to create duplicates of underlying class libraries targeting the specific platforms, even if they contain the same functionality, logics or algorithms. In .NET framework 4.5 RC, the Portable Class Library has been introduced to solve exactly that problem.

The Windows Phone platform has rich support for gestures. This article illustrates the support by way of building a Windows Phone application, which leverages the support for gestures.

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...

This is the last installment of Creating your own Hidden Object game with VB.NET shows you how to add a Hint Facility, how to change screen resolution, and how to finalize the game.

WCF implementations normally take two different approaches; a Document style or an API style. Document style implementations are more flexible and often easier to extend and version. Also, Document style or rather, Message Contract service implementations, work well between systems with a shared message assembly. Jeffrey Juday guides you through architecting a WCF Message Contract implementation.

All indications are that Microsoft Windows Metro, as a name, is going away. Will a new name be coming for this Modern Windows paradigm?

Rumors of Windows 8’s impending failure are greatly exaggerated. It is a safe bet to say that Windows 8 will not fail

Microsoft said there would be a major developer conference this fall. Now they've announced it: Microsoft Build 2012!