Bipin Joshi explains how jQuery can be integrated with TypeScript to make Ajax calls to an ASP.NET Web API.

Discover what HTML5 Server Sent Events are and how to develop a web form that relies on real-time data from the server.

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that provides typed nature to your code, and when compiled is converted into the same standard JavaScript. This means after compiling the TypeScript code you can use the resultant JavaScript in any browser that supports JavaScript. Read on to learn more.

OData protocol allows you to create RESTful data services by exposing URI end points. ASP.NET Web API supports OData queries so that your data can be consumed by the client over HTTP with the help of OData query options. Bipin Joshi illustrates how to work with the OData support provided in the Web API, and how to write OData queries.

Web applications commonly store data in an RDBMS, however, applications may need to handle data that doesn't fit into traditional row-column format. In such cases Document databases, such as RavenDB, come into the picture. Vipin Joshi shows you how to work with RavenDB in an ASP.NET application.

Visual Studio 2012 uses MS-Test, Microsoft's unit testing framework, by default but also allows you to use third-party unit testing frameworks. Bipin Joshi shows you how to use these third-party unit testing frameworks and still use Visual Studio IDE to run the tests.