(Jef Claes) Recently I prototyped a mobile web application using ASP.NET MVC, jQuery Mobile and some HTML5 features. One of the key goals was to find out how far you can push a web ‘application’ until the browser starts getting in the way. Working disconnected is one of these things that appear to b

(Richard Carr) The fifteenth part of the Reflection tutorial describes reflection techniques for obtaining information about generic types. The article looks at some of the Type members introduced in the .NET framework version 2.0 that are specific to generic types.

(Niladri.Biswas) In this article we will see how to create a new category for Custom Templates with a new entry to Install Templates for Visual Studio using Extensibility Project of VS2010 SDK.

(Mike Brind) The recommended practice for transferring data to and from views in ASP.NET MVC is to use a View Model. But what is a View Model? How to you design one and how should they be used? This article attempts to provide answers to those questions.

(Sadeque Sharif) In this article we will learn about the three methods of MVC 3 and those are RenderBody, RenderPage and RenderSection. We will learn by the following topics:

(Mickey Gousset) The past several columns have demonstrated the automated build process in Team Foundation Server, known as Team Foundation Build. This build service has been available in Team Foundation Server since the initial 2005 release, and has undergone some significant changes in the past se

(Jeffrey Juday) IIS 7.5 included new Application Autostart functionality. With Autostart, IIS Applications can do things like build a cache or perform some other time-intensive process during an Application’s AppPool startup. I’ve used Autostart to activate long-running Task Parallel LibraryTasks

(Jayesh Sorathia) You can also query the array variables using LINQ.

(Steve Hobbs) On a recent project, I undertook the task of implementing a RESTful API using the new Asp.Net WebAPI framework. The aim was to support clients of all types, including a .Net desktop app and iOS and Android mobile apps. My API had to support some sort of authentication mechanism.

(Gunnar Peipman) In this posting I will show you how to use Task Parallel Library (TPL) and PLINQ features to boost performance of simple RSS-feed aggregator. I will use here only very basic .NET classes that almost every developer starts from when learning parallel programming. Of course, we will a