(Ard-Jan Barnas) In our previous article we discussed how to optimize threading in ASP.NET application. In this article we’ll look at resource management. Poor resource management from pages and controls is one of the primary causes of poor Web application performance.

(Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi) We have two sets of ASP.NET providers which currently exist; the ASP.NET SQL providers, and the ASP.NET Universal Providers. In VS 2010 the SQL providers were in only providers used for our project templates. In VS 2012 we have switched to using the Universal Providers. One o

(Peter Vogel) One of the components of the new Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 4 beta is the Microsoft Upshot JavaScript library, which is used as part of the architecture of a Single Page Application, or SPA (other JavaScript libraries used to create SPAs are jQuery, Knockout and History). In the default ASP

(Abhimanyu Kumar Vatsa) In this article you are going to learn all about the jQuery Accordion Widget.

(Ben Nadel) Last week, Ryan Jeffords pointed me to a fun little demo where a block of text would reveal a pixelated image if you selected the characters within the text. Essentially, it was using the “selection” CSS pseudo-class to turn each character into a solid block of color upon selection. I fo

(Mahesh Chand) The File class in the .NET Framework class library provides static methods for creating, reading, copying, moving, and deleting files. In this article, we will see how to create a text file using different options available in .NET.

(K. Scott Allen) A many to many relationship is easy to setup with code first EF. For example, an Author can write many books.

(Tugberk Ugurlu) You have probably seen some people who are against asynchronous database calls in ASP.NET web applications so far. They mostly right but there are still some cases that processing database queries asynchronous has very important impact on.

(Thomas Levesque) Visual Studio 2012 RC is out since last week, and even though I didn’t have much time to play with it yet, I think I like it so far. Lots of things have already been said about the design, and about the most important new features, but there are also many smaller and less remarkabl

(Ben Nadel) For some reason, on my latest project, I keep making a mistake when simultaneously binding multiple events on a given jQuery collection. The annoying part of the mistake is that it’s not terribly easy to track down as it doesn’t throw an error – it simply “fails” silently. To demonstrate