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.

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.
Understanding Serialization is important if a developer is contemplating Azure .NET Queuing on either Azure Service Bus or Azure Storage Queues. Jeffrey Juday examines some common patterns to effectively apply Data Contract Serialization, leveraging the .NET Data Contract Serialization.
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.
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.
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...
Hannes du Preeze shows you how to add a preview of a selected picture to an OpenFileDialog. Part 2 of this article focuses on the user interface and user interaction with the preview pane.
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.