(Tony Patton) You can use these sample interview questions or discussion topics to get a better idea of a candidate’s grasp of ASP.NET. While you still have to determine if the person’s personality fits within your organization, you can at least get an idea of their technical skills.

(Nandip Makwana) Earlier almost year ago, when MVC 4 developer preview version released at that time I have blogged on how to create custom transform type for bundling in ASP.NET 4.5 & MVC 4. There are some changes in System.Web.Optimization since developer preview release to RC. As far as this post

(Richard Carr) Asynchronous operations are particularly suited to slow processes that would otherwise block the user interface thread and make applications unresponsive. In the past asynchronous code has been complicated to develop. .NET 4.5 simplifies this greatly.

(Wilson) When transactions are executing concurrently in an interleaved fashion, the order of execution of instructions from the various transaction as transaction schedule.

(Diego Dagum) In the first installment of this series on pointers, I covered the two most common smart pointers. One of them, shared_ptr, implements reference counting on its heap objects. A reference counter reaching 0 triggers an object deletion, avoiding memory leaks.

(Sumit Maitra and Minal Agarwal) Developers familiar with server side technologies like WebForms on ASP.NET can easily relate to ‘controls’ like GridView and ListView. These ‘controls’ were very useful for rendering repeating data for example in a List for a single dimensional array and a grid for t

I am Levi Broderick, a developer on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft. In this series, I want to introduce some of the improvements we have made to the cryptographic core in ASP.NET 4.5. Most of these improvements were introduced during beta and spent several months baking.

(Mike Brind) It’s an odd thing: WebMatrix 2 is lauded for its support of HTML5, but the Web Pages framework doesn’t include any helpers for the new HTML5 form input types such as email or color.

(Kalyan Bandarupalli) This post discuss about using WebSockets in ASP.NET 4.5. You can read this post to get an understanding about WebSockets. This post shows piece of code which uses WebSockets in ASP.NET 4.5 and the code is related to simple chat application.

(Richard Carr) Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) includes a number of set operators, including one that removes duplicates from a sequence to return only distinct values. This article describes a custom set operator that returns only the duplicated values from a collection.