(Richard Carr) The fourteenth part of the Reflection tutorial looks at the reflection of array types. This includes obtaining the underlying type for an array, the number of dimensions and the types of the individual elements in an array of objects.
Tag: Development
Date Time Form Input Type in HTML5
(Gaurav Gupta) In this article we are going to learn about the Date Time form input type in HTML5 using JavaScript. Here we will demonstrate the HTML5 input types date, time, week, month, date time and datetime-local.
More Thinking About Model-View-Controller (MVC) And Application Architecture
(Ben Nadel) Ever since my talk about MVC (Model-View-Controller) with Steven Neiland, I’ve been thinking non-stop about my own application architecture and how to improve it. For the last two weeks, I’ve been watching presentations and reading articles about domain modeling, MVC, design patterns, an
The Differences Between Development on Windows Azure and Windows Server
(Rachel Appel) ASP.NET developers, particularly those writing enterprise applications, have to think carefully about the more than business requirements. The environment, team, tools, deployment, performance, security, and other factors weigh in when it comes to building robust Web applications.
Improving .NET Application Performance Part 7: Asynchronous Calls
(Ard-Jan Barnas) In our last article we discussed guidelines for optimizing Threading. In this article we’ll look at best practices for using asynchronous calls. Asynchronous calls are non-blocking meaning when you call a method asynchronously, the calling thread returns immediately and continues ex
An Attribute-Free Approach to Configuring MEF
(Alok Shriram) The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) was designed to give Microsoft .NET Framework developers an easy way to build loosely coupled applications. The primary focus of MEF in version 1 was extensibility, such that an application developer could expose certain extension points to th
Working With Drives and Directories in ASP.NET
(Mahak Gupta) In this article we will discuss how to interact with the File System, Drives and Directories and how we get the path details. The System.IO namespace is used to work with files and directories of ASP.Net. Here we use the DriveInfo class of the System.IO namespace. It provides extended
Unit Testing in the Navigation for ASP.NET Web Forms Framework
(Graham Mendick) The Navigation for ASP.NET Web Forms framework, an open source project hosted at navigation.codeplex.com, opens up new possibilities for writing Web Forms applications by taking a new approach to navigation and data passing. In traditional Web Forms code, the way data is passed is d
Working with Observable Collections in Silverlight
(Joydip Kanjilal) Observable Collections are great to preserve the latest data in data controls without having to rebind data to the data controls. In this article we will explore how we can work with Observable Collections in Silverlight 5.
Creating A Generic Lambda-Based IComparer
(Richard Carr) Several standard .NET framework classes perform comparisons of values or objects and allow those comparisons to be controlled using an IComparer implementation. This article describes a generic comparer that obtains results using lambda expressions.
