(Richard Carr) The System.Decimal data type differs from other floating-point data types in the way that it represents the number of digits after the decimal point. With decimals, the precision of the number is retained, even if the trailing digits are not significant.

(Mike Brind) The Web Pages Starter Site template provides a useful starting point for developing a Razor Web Pages site that includes membership. But it doesn’t include any mechanism for preventing duplicate user names. This article offers one solution to the problem that uses jQuery.

(Simon Cooper) So, what is a primitive type? According to the Incompleteness Theorem, there will always be things in any mathematical system, and therefore any computational system, that cannot be defined using the rules of that system. These rules form the axioms of that system.

(Ged Mead) In most of the posts in this series so far, I’ve used SQL queries to fetch the assortment of data I want directly from the database. These have used queries that incorporate things like the WHERE clause and the COUNT, MIN and MAX aggregate functions, for example.