In C# 4.0 or earlier versions, in order to get the caller information at the called method, the caller had to explicitly pass the information as a parameter or by some other means. Bipin Joshi examines C# 5.0's Caller Info attributes to accomplish the task with ease.
Microsoft Azure offers two queuing options: Azure Queues and Azure Service Bus. The first step to understanding Service Bus Sessions, an advanced feature of Service Bus, is understanding the need.
Learn to utilize more advanced Azure Queuing features like Asynchronous Methods, LockTimeouts, and Message TimeToLive.
ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta introduced Single Page Applications (SPA), web applications that provide rich functionality to a web page through a client side script. Support is limited, but a basic framework for building data driven web pages using popular JavaScript libraries is provided. This article discusses the SPA project template and parts of a typical SPA application.
Need to add search capability to your Metro style app? This article demonstrates how to implement the search contract and include simple searching functionality within your app.
In a typical ASP.NET MVC application, the controller sends model data to the view and the view then renders the data in the required form. Bipin Joshi shows you how child action methods can be used to render markup dynamically.
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 final installment of our Slot Game series shows you how to build in a way to win or lose. We will also add some effects for when a win takes place.
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.
