(Chris Calender) If you see the “Waiting for table metadata lock” error, you may be wondering what is the best course of action to prevent it in the future. I have briefly discussed troubleshooting metadata locks before, however, that post more illustrated how easy it is to encounter the “Waiting fo
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ASP.NET Web API 2.0 Cross Origin Resource Sharing support
(Suprotim Agarwal) WebAPI 2.0 has built in support for Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). Today we see what it takes to enable CORS support in the upcoming Web API 2.0 release. Along the way we create a Project template for Web API 2.0 that can be used in Visual Studio 2012.
Videos & Visual Basic.NET Part 2 – YouTube and Flash Videos
(Hannes du Preez) Hello again. If you have read my previous installment of Videos & VB.NET, you’ll have a great understanding of what we will do today. If not, today we will learn how to play Flash Videos and YouTube videos from our VB.NET application. This is sure to be a great deal of fun, so let’
EclipseLink MOXy and the Java API for JSON Processing – Object Model APIs
(Blaise Doughan) The Java API for JSON Processing (JSR-353) is the Java standard for producing and consuming JSON which was introduced as part of Java EE 7.
16 jQuery Date Picker Plugins to Plan Your Tasks
(Gavin McLeod) The jQuery Datepicker is an essential and highly configurable plugin which adds the datepicker functionality to your pages for an enhanced user experience when building complex forms which require a date input. It allows you to customize the date format and language, restrict the sele
Two Ways Of Selecting Files For Uploading
(Bipin Joshi) This is a quick and short post that tries to answer a question recently asked by a reader…
Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC Authorization and Security
(Dino Esposito) It is only a matter of time in developing most websites that you’ll need to implement a way of restricting access to parts of the site. In MVC, the ‘Authorize’ attribute handles both authentication and authorization. In general, it works well, with the help of extension to handle A
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Why You Shouldn’t Comment (or Document) Code
(Peter Vogel) Recently I was intrigued by Joe Kunk’s On VB column about commenting code. I especially liked Kunk’s comment that: “It’s important to communicate what the code should be doing.” I thought that was the best description of what comments should do that I’d read in a very long time.
SharePoint 2010: Customize SharePoint content
(Steve Wright and Corey Erkes) SharePoint has a certain appearance right out of the box. It has a set of colors, fonts, page layouts and navigation features built into the default site templates. This look and feel is designed to work well for general-purpose intranet sites, but can sometimes feel b