Latest .NET / C# Articles - Page 13

It's unfortunate Microsoft didn't include a database for use when building Windows 8 Metro Apps in C#. However, there is a very popular database known as SQLite, which works very well in mobile environments.

Asynchronously running code can improve the overall performance and responsiveness of your web application. In ASP.NET 4.5 web forms applications you can register asynchronous methods with the page framework. The ASP.NET page framework and .NET 4.5 asynchronous programming support then executes the operations in asynchronous fashion. This article shows how this can be done.

Windows Phone developers need to know how the device is connected to the internet. This article walks Windows Phone developers through the process of finding the nature of the connection and how they can leverage it.

IndexedDB, an HTML5 technology, is a non-relational data store designed to store JSON objects in collections known as an Object Store within a Database. Join Chris Bennett to learn how to use IndexedDB in your JavaScript/HTML5 Windows 8 Metro Apps.

For security reasons browsers don't allow cross-domain communication. However, in some legitimate situations cross-domain communication becomes necessary. A common work-around for this restriction is to use JSON with Padding or JSONP. In this article you will learn how JSONP can be used in an ASP.NET MVC application.

Windows Phone devices have built-in accelerometers. This article walks Windows Phone developers through how to leverage the built-in support for accelerometer in their Windows Phone applications.