(Karl E. Peterson) Ever heard the phrase “Unix time” ? That’s the most often-used description of the method of marking time by the number of seconds that have passed since January 1, 1970. A question arose the other day about this, and how negative values were starting to creep into VB calculations,

(Jeffrey Juday) Microsoft has made a significant investment in Parallel computing features with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. Often the best way to understand new features is to look at core feature components and then find the core features or concepts within; proceeding

(Ben Nadel) A while back, I learned that you could use the Javascript IN operator to test for object property existence. This was a great find because it tested for the presence of a key and not just the key’s value (which might evaluate to False). Since all core data types in Javascript extend the

(Scott Guthrie) Today’s blog post covers a very small, but still useful, feature of VS 2010 – the ability to “pin” projects and solutions to both the Windows 7 taskbar as well VS 2010 Start Page. This makes it easier to quickly find and open projects in the IDE.

(Tess Ferrandez) I have written before about high memory usage caused by improper usage of XmlSerializer objects both in a case study and in a debugging lab. The problem there was that every time you create a new XmlSerializer object with a non-default constructor, you generate a new dynamic assemb

(Shivprasad) This article will explain 6 important concepts Stack , heap , value types , reference types , boxing and unboxing. This article starts first explaining what happens internally when you declare a variable and then it moves ahead to explain 2 important concepts stack and heap. Article the

(Scott Mitchell) Earlier this year I wrote an article about Twitterizer, an open-source .NET library that can be used to integrate your application with Twitter. Using Twitterizer you can allow your visitors to post tweets, view their timeline, and much more, all without leaving your website. The or

This paper describes the new dynamic language extensibility model that has enabled Microsoft to introduce IronPython for ASP.NET, a new implementation of the popular Python programming language.

(Phil Haack) One of my favorite features of ASP.NET MVC 2 is the support for client validation. I’ve covered a bit about validation in the following two posts:

(Jani Jarvinen) Web applications have been a great enabler for business needs, because for one thing, the users are not anymore tied to physical location. However, building web applications has often required more work compared to traditional desktop applications. Especially if you wanted to have go