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Microsoft officially announced that a new Kinect for Windows device will be released on February 1st along with a commercial license. How easy is it to code to?

This article describes how to develop Internet Explorer extensions using C# and MS Visual Studio 2010.

Sharpen your form validation skills using unobtrusive validation in MVC3 and Razor.

Create a custom plug-in to reuse your jQuery code across web pages.

Take advantage of Streaming and TCP for transferring large amounts of data to and from using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).

Take advantage of URL Routing in the ASP.NET framework to optimize your search engine rankings.

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 is a versatile solution for professional software development and application lifecycle management. One of the feature sets supports automated unit testing and load testing of your .NET framework applications. Read on to learn how Microsoft Visual Studio and TFS can help you with your testing needs.

Not quite sure where to start building the code needed for paging data grids within your MVC Site? In this article I will show you how to create a simple and effective pager for use with grids. The pager we create will utilize ASP.NET Ajax to remove the need to postback for each page of data displayed.

Work items are an integral part of Team Foundation Server. In this third part of the Microsoft ALM series, you will learn about the possibilities work items can give to your development team. You will also learn when work items are useful and when you might not need them at all.

Create lightweight test stubs and detours for .NET framework applications using Microsoft's Moles Framework and make your code easily testable and bug free.

In order to take full advantage of the Silverlight platform for your Windows Phone 7 applications, you need to understand the application life cycle of your application. This article discusses the application event flow for Silverlight based WP7 applications.

Source code management and version control are topics that can lead to heated discussions over the best solution. However one thing is clear: everyone needs version control. Even a developer working alone can benefit from a working solution. In this second part of the Microsoft ALM series, the focus is on Team Foundation Server's version control capabilities.

This ASP.NET tutorial shows how to extend the jQuery / ASP.NET news ticker to allow end users to pause and resume the ticker.

Rapid Application Development or RAD tools enhance the productivity of developers by allowing them to focus on the business part of their application. This article is a review of Iron Speed Designer, one of the best know RAD tools for development of .NET framework web applications.

.NET Framework 4.0 saw the introduction of a generic class, System.Collections.Generic.SortedSet, for keeping items in a sorted order. Learn how to put these additions to work for you.

This ASP.NET tutorial shows how to parse and modify HTML documents from an ASP.NET page using the free HTML Agility Pack library.

The Windows Phone 7 platform allows applications to be written in either against the Silverlight framework or against the XNA framework. While applications are easier to develop on the Silverlight platforms, games seem to come to life when built on the XNA platform. Read along as we walk you through the steps needed to create a game for Windows Phone 7 using the XNA framework.

Most developers misuse the facility of exceptions provided by the NET framework. They tend to catch all exceptions when they were expecting only file-based exceptions to be thrown. In some situations, this leads to trapping exceptions which mask state corruption of the managed process. In .NET Framework 4.0, the default implementation has changed for the better, allowing only non-corrupted state exceptions to be handled by default.

Through the course of 2010 Microsoft has had three major releases of Microsoft Azure, deployed products in all cloud categories including PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS, signed up over 40 million customers and has been innovating non-stop. In this article we will look at what Microsoft has done in the cloud this past year, and muse on where they might be headed.

In the ASP.NET MVC framework the HTML Helper methods play an important role when developing the views. Read this article to learn about building your own HTML helper methods, all while getting to know the various ways of doing it.

In .NET framework 4.0, a new class, MemoryMappedFile, was introduced to facilitate the editing of large files and inter-process communication. Read along to learn more about this new class.

This ASP.NET tutorial is the first in a series that showcases how to displays grids of data in an ASP.NET MVC application. In this inaugural article, Scott Mitchell shows how to display data in a simple grid.

Learn to use ASP.NET Ajax Client Behavior to display a visual indicator for the number of characters entered in a multiline textbox and to enforce the limit on the amount of text entered.

Looking to use ASP.NET MVC but not sure about the time required to build high-level controls? Let Chris Bennett show you how to incorporate jQuery UI to add in some of those high-level controls such as dialogs, date pickers, autocompletes and more.