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Hannes du Preez shows you how to build an inactivity feature into your VB.NET and C# applications to allow them to check for inactivity.

Visual Studio Page Inspector is a diagnostic tool that helps you to dissect and observe the HTML source and styling information of your web pages, presenting the detailed information in an easy to read form. Bipin Joshi shows you how the Page Inspector can be used with ASP.NET Web Forms.

Software defects and bugs cost $60 billion a year in the US. Check out this infographic to get a few other statistics on the impact of defects in your applications.

ASP.NET 4.5 and IIS 8 provide support for WebSocket protocol so that you can program WebSockets in your ASP.NET web forms and ASP.NET MVC applications. Bipin Joshi discusses what WebSockets are and how to develop web applications that take advantage of HTML5 WebSockets.

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.

Join Chris Bennett as he walks you through building a Windows Store Application for the Developer.com Network. This reader app, which runs on Windows 8, has been submitted to the Windows 8 App Store and should be available within a few days. In the meantime, he's sharing with you, including the code!