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IIS 7.5 included new Application Autostart functionality.  With Autostart, IIS Applications can do things like build a cache or perform some other time-intensive process during an Application’s AppPool startup.  I’ve used Autostart to activate long-running Task Parallel LibraryTasks and Timers.  Autostart configuration requires changes to the ApplicationHost configuration, and while  Autostart configuration is not complicated, […]

With only major bug-fixes pending prior to the full release to manufacturing, then sale and distribution, Microsoft will release the final updates consisting of primarily the final touches to already installed new features which are mostly related to responses to the prior beta tester feedback and a few minor improvements to the performance of the […]

The most popular websites today are all recommending that you use responsive design when developing and now the folks at Mozilla have added tools to FireFox that will help you do just that. Responsive web design is a fancy way of using fluid grids in your development. This technique allows your website to instantly adapt […]

As you dive into development of Windows 8 Metro apps you will most likely run into the need to use local storage. While you may be thinking it’s just Windows, I already know how to connect to a database and access the filesystem, unfortunately, the APIs you are used too will not work with Metro […]

Take advantage of the powerful features in ASP.NET MVC to build robust applications with ease. This article takes a look at the 10 best practices that can be followed for best and efficient use of ASP.NET MVC Framework 4. Pre-requisites As of this writing, ASP.NET MVC 4 has been released. To execute the code examples […]

Introduction The performance of your web application has a great impact on the end user experience. If your web application is slow, obviously users are going to be turned away from using it. There are many factors that contribute to the performance of a web site. A couple of important ones are – the number […]

Observable Collections are great to preserve the latest data in data controls without having to rebind data to the data controls. In this article we will explore how we can work with Observable Collections in Silverlight 5. Pre-requisites As of this writing, Silverlight 5 has been released. To execute the code examples illustrated in this […]

Now supporting over 6,000 developers around the world and touting over 5,000 apps built, Buddy is the only  building more than 5,000 apps is the world’s first application development platform to natively support Windows 8. The Buddy Platform announced today the initial closing of a $1 million seed round concurrent with the full public release […]

In just over a week, Microsoft has promised to disclose a laundry list of new features in their Windows Azure Cloud platform. Some features that are likely to be on that list will include Antares, Microsoft’s new app hosting framework, also a tech-preview of the new persistent VM hosting for Linux. These and a number […]

Test Template Transformation Toolkit (T4 templates) was introduced with Visual Studio 2005 as a separate installer; later it was provided out of the box with Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 installations. T4 templates can be used to generate source code or any kind of text content (.txt, .xml, .html, etc.) dynamically. Since it supports both […]

Such software titans as Citrix, Microsoft, Progress Software, IBM, SAP and others have come together this week in order to continue the production of the OASIS standards for OData specifications.  Designed with existing standards including HTTP, JSON, AtomPub, and XML, OData is a web protocol for unlocking and sharing data. This concept will tear down […]

Applications with decoupled components are often easier to build and manage.  Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) trades some modest added complexity for better decoupling.  One decoupling aspect involves minimizing an application’s moving parts.  The fewer the parts and the fewer the dependencies between the parts the easier an application is to manage and maintain.  WCF File-less […]