The first version of Windows Phone did not have good support for local database support. Vipul Patel shows yhou how application developers can use support for SQLite in their Windows Phone applications.
Jeffrey Juday demonstrates some techniques to bridge TPL and WCF exception handling models in the .NET Framework.
With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft started the trend of releasing Visual Studio Ultimate Feature Packs. With the upcoming release of Visual Studio 11, Microsoft intends to continue this trend.
To improve the overall performance and responsiveness of your ASP.NET MVC application, you may wish to execute the code asynchronously. This article discusses both server-side and client-side scenarios and shows how to create asynchronous controllers and use the SessionState attribute.
Windows runtime is designed to provide a platform to create language independent metro style applications that extend the browser experience to the rich Windows experience. Windows runtime uses API metadata , follows the ECMA-335 framework, and also provides a collection of patterns for creating and managing asynchronous operations. Read on to learn more...
Concurrent collections in .NET Framework 4.0 allow developers to create type safe collections as well as thread safe collections. These collection classes form an essential part of the parallel programming feature and are available under the namespace System.Collections.Concurrent. V. N. S. Arun examines the different concurrent collections.
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...
Learn how to obtain an outside application's window handle, in order to manipulate that window from inside your program, using either VB.NET or C#.
SOLID principles form the base for writing good and clean object oriented code in C#. Learn about the S.O.L.I.D principles and explore C# coding samples for each.
