(Jeffrey Juday) Azure Queues are part of the Azure Storage offerings. Microsoft’s Azure SDK for .NET makes developing with Azure Queues accessible to .NET developers. SDK documentation is, for the most part, complete. There are, however, underlying patterns to understand if a developer wants to

(Vishal Shukla) This article will demonstrate how easily you can design occasionally-connected applications using ADO .Net Sync services. It’s going to be a very basic example in VB .Net showing how easily you can use Sync services within your application. I have taken the template from Code Project

This topic explains the working of file operation in vb.net.

(Maarten Balliauw) ASP.NET Web API is a great tool to build an API with. Or as my buddy Kristof Rennen (and the French) always say: “it makes you ‘api”. One of the things I like a lot is the fact that you can do very powerful things that you know and love from the ASP.NET MVC stack, like, for exampl

(Michael Kennedy) This article covers the various ways in which you might handle text encoding in ASP.NET MVC. For example, if you were writing a forum web app, you should absolutely be paranoid about what your users are typing into your site. You need to be very careful about how you redisplay thei

(Jan Jorgensen) In Part I, I wrote about how to retrieve the content of input fields, changing many elements on a Web page by using id, or class selectors. Now, I’ll introduce you to the .ready() function and some of the animation functions found in the standard jQuery library.

(Richard Carr) The title bar for a console application that is executed from a command prompt generally shows a default title, rather than the name of the console application. This title can be modified by setting a static property of the Console class.

(Dino Esposito) Asynchrony is essential for scalability and performance on the server side. Although it has always been possible to write asynchronous code, there has, up to now, been a downside: it is difficult to understand and maintain. Now, with the async/await. keywords, the whole approach is

(Bipin Joshi) In C# 4.0 or earlier versions, to get the caller information at the called method the caller had to explicitly pass the information as a parameter or by some other means. In order to do that it had to use the Reflection classes that are available under the namespace System.Reflection.

(Mike Brind) ASP.NET 4.5 saw the introduction of new features for improving the performance of web sites. Delivered within a new library called System.Web.Optimization, bundling and minification enables you to combine multiple JavaScript or CSS files into one bundle, and to minify them thereby reduc