The newly added bundling and minification features of ASP.NET 4.5 let you bundle and minify JavaScript and CSS files, to improve the performance of your web application.
Vipul Patel provides an intro to Node.js and a detailed, hands-on lab that shows you how to create a Node.js application running on Windows Azure.
Joydip Kanjilal shows you how to take advantage of Observable Collections and Silverlight to display live data.
Text Template Transformation Toolkit, often referred as T4 templates, can be used to generate source code or any kind of text content dynamically including XML. Read on to learn more about T4 templates.
Control and low coupling happen when a developer combines MEF, WCF, and File-less activation. Jeffrey Juday shows you how to chain the technologies together.
Programmers don't get much recognition and Microsoft understands that, which is why they've introduced Visual Studio Achievements. Visual Studio Achievements is a fun way to earn Achievement Badges that you can show off to your fellow employees or even your boss.
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.
