(Dave Reed) There’s a lot of debate these days about the ASP.NET WebForms model vs. the newer ASP.NET MVC model. There are advantages to both. Disadvantages to both. Pick the one that best fits your needs. Nuff said. But sometimes that choice isn’t so obvious.

(Scott Mitchell) jQuery is a lightweight, cross-browser JavaScript library designed to ease JavaScript’s most common tasks, including inspecting and manipulating the Document Object Model (DOM) and making out of band HTTP requests to support AJAX functionality. In plain English, jQuery makes it easy

(joybahtt) When Visual Studio 2008 released last year, it was packed with a lot new functionality and features that made many a Microsoft developer’s heart go a flutter.

(Mike Brind) The .NET framework does not contain any native way to work with PDF files. So, if you want to generate or work with PDF files as part of your ASP.NET web application, you will have to rely on one of the many third party components that are available. Google will help you to find one tha

(Questpond) One of the important factors for performance degradation in .NET code is memory consumption. Many developers just concentrate on execution time to determine performance bottle necks in a .NET application. Only measuring execution time does not clearly give idea of where the performance i

(jhillman) This add-in is for anyone who wants to use Regular Expressions to find and replace in Visual Studio, but doesn’t want to use the strange Regular Expression syntax of the built-in dialog. This add-in provides a new dialog that uses .NET’s Regular Expressions to find and replace.

(Bob Reselman) REST, Representational State Transfer, is a powerful, lightweight architecture that allows you to work with data in a comprehensive manner via HTTP. Yet, as powerful as REST is, getting it to work with your code can be a bit of a chore without some help. When it comes to coding in Jav

(Scott Mitchell) The Microsoft Chart controls demos we have examined so far all use the Chart Web control to position the chart image on the web page and to configure a number of its stylistic settings. For example, while the Plotting Chart Data article showed several demos illustrating the differen

(Ben Nadel) In the past few weeks, I’ve outlined a number of really cool tips and tricks that I picked up from Cody Lindley’s jQuery Enlightenment book; to cap it off, I wanted to cover just one more: passing a function as the second argument to the jQuery collection Attr() method. Typically, when w

(Herbjorn Wilhelmsen) Microsoft’s Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an effective framework for implementing services as well as service consumers. Whenever you deal with WCF communication objects you need to pay attention to the disposal of the resources that these objects hold. However, the