(V.N.S Arun) Test Template Transformation Toolkit (T4 templates) was introduced with Visual Studio 2005 as a separate installer; later it was provided out of the box with Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 installations. T4 templates can be used to generate source code or any kind of text content (.txt, .x

(Ben Nadel) Since my talks with Steven Neiland at cf.Objective(), I’ve been trying to think very deeply about Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. To move me along in my understanding, I’ve been slowly trying to put together a small MVC example in ColdFusion. It’s been a tough and humbling proc

(Tony Patton) The node.js framework makes JavaScript programming easier by embracing real-time application development with an event-driven, non-blocking I/O approach.

(Richard Carr) The thirteenth part of the Reflection tutorial examines the methods of the System.Type class that provide reflection specific to enumerations and their constants. These methods, introduced in .NET 3.5, provide similar functionality to the Enum class.

(Peter Vogel) The Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) seems to be approaching a kind of maturity. The upcoming release of the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, for instance, offers lots of improvements that will make your life better, but only one change that, I think, qualifies as critical

(Geoff Hudik) We are using ASP.NET MVC 4 beta on a new project as it should be out of beta before we go live. Even if not, they do have a Go Live license option. Each time I start using a new version of ASP.NET MVC and check the “Create a unit test project” checkbox, I always let out a […]

(Sumit Maitra) We take a closer look at Visual Studio 11’s new Page Inspector functionality that helps developers debug their web UI from inside Visual Studio without having to ‘Alt-Tab’ between Browser and Visual Studio.

(Sunny Dhiman) I am working on a web application which requires LightBox on the home page. I had searched a lot on the web. There are many solutions available, but one limitation is that if you want to show a gallery with previous and next buttons then you have to load all the images on pageload in

(ZulfiqarAhmed) Recently I worked with a customer assisting them in implementing their Web APIs using the new ASP.NET Web API framework. Their API would be public so obviously security came up as the key concern to address.

(Justin James) I recently wrote about 10 new HTML5 tags that folks should know about. A common and very fair question about this topic is, “what’s the compatibility like?” I put some of the tags to the test, and made a few sensible conversions to HTML5 on the site that I recently moved to static HTM