With the RTW of the Visual Studio 2012 IDE in August, Microsoft included some new features and nice enhancements. Read on to learn the top 7 items that caught one developer's eye.

One of the good things about Asp.Net 4.5 is that you can introduce asynchronous processing in web applications that you develop with little effort. This article takes you through the asynchronous HTTP Modules and Handlers in Asp.Net 4.5.

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. Arun Karthick examines C# 5.0's Caller Info attributes to accomplish the task with ease.

In .NET framework 4.5 you can write asynchronous file IO operations much easier  using the Async methods that are provided along with the IO base class libraries. Read this article to explore more about it.

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.

Microsoft has introduced some cool features with Visual Studio 2012 that seem to resolve some general issues faced by every web developer while working with a .js or a .css file. Read on to learn about a few of them.