(Mark Kendall) I had a requirement to call a report on our SSRS server and send the results as e-mail to our clients outside our network, and additionally to have e-mail look good on a Smart Phone. After some research, I found that by calling the web service execution engine on my server, that I cou

(K. G. Sreeju Nair) Microsoft has released another version of Visual Studio named Visual Studio 2012. As you can see there are user interface (UI) changes in all/most of the Microsoft applications as Microsoft is moving towards Windows 8 and changing the UI scheme for all of the applications.

(Richard Carr) It is a common task to obtain the last inserted identity value for a SQL Server table for the current connection, with @@IDENTITY, or for the current scope, with SCOPE_IDENTITY. However, it is also possible to find the latest identity inserted by any session.

(pranav rastogi) VS2012 is out and with it brings a host of developer improvements when dealing with data. This post aims at highlighting a few key improvements which will affect you the most and hopefully you will find this information useful in getting started with the improvements in Visual Studi

(Richard Carr) The garbage collector controls memory management automatically, deallocating memory used by unreachable objects periodically but unpredictably. In some situations it can be useful to force an immediate complete or partial garbage collection.

(Mahesh Sabnis) By now, I hope most of you have started exploring .NET 4.5 and VS2012. There are several new features in .NET 4.5 for the developer community. You can find these new features here.

(Bradley Irby) We discussed how a service-oriented architecture (SOA) works and why we chose it. We now address another architectural theory that helps keep the business logic, view logic, and data storage aspects separate and easy to work with.

(Mark Berryman) ASP.NET Web API Help Pages is a new preview feature that automatically generates help page style content for your Web API endpoints. You can read more about it at Introducing the ASP.NET Web API Help Page and in further posts on Yao’s blog. I won’t revisit the basics of the feature h

(Gregg Boer) Story Points is a very common practice in agile development, and even though it’s not mentioned in the Scrum guide, many Scrum teams consider it a core practice.

(Ruchira Gamage) Logging is a very important thing for a web site specially if the website is on live! It will help you to debug your live web application without needing to enable remote debug on the server, so it comes very handy when you need to log the errors which can occur at the live site, wh