(Mahesh Sabnis) The FileResult action that comes out of box with ASP.NET MVC3 provides an easy to use abstraction for downloading files in an ASP.NET MVC application.

(Ben Nadel) Last week, I brought up the topic of Object Calisthenics which is an idea defined by Jeff Bay as an exercise to force people to think in “objects.” Object Calisthenics imposes very strict rules that require you to jump through potentially unnecessary hoops.

(Richard Carr) The eleventh part of the Reflection tutorial describes the techniques for examining a type and determining which interfaces, if any, it implements. The processes can be used to find implemented interfaces for classes, structures and other interfaces.

(Mike Pope) The beta release of ASP.NET Web Pages has been released (for example, as part of the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta release). There are only a few differences from the December 2011 Developer Preview release. (Details when we’ve got them posted.)

(Peter Vogel) Web Services have one great virtue: they’re completely interoperable. They also have one great failing: in order to be interoperable, Web Services use a set of technologies that are guaranteed to give you, at best, adequate performance. Fortunately, WCF 4.5 has a solution: support for

(Sapna) This article will show you how to create pagination using jQuery with as little effort or configuration as possible. A jQuery plugin that comes with a twist; animated page numbers.

(Paul Ferrill) In the first part of this series we looked at installing the latest version of the Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) using the free Visual Studio Integrated Shell along with the free Enthought Python Distribution. In this installment we’ll look at using PTVS and the Pyvot add-in t

(Sheonarayan) I was facing problem in adjusting the asp:Chart Axis labels font and intervals and found it very difficult to customize them. In this article, we are going to learn how to customize the asp:Chart control X or Y axis labels, its appearance and the intervals of the Label etc.

(James Lee) In this conclusion to a six-part article series on subroutines and functions in Perl, you’ll learn more about lists and arrays, and take a look at default argument values.

(Ben Nadel) Several years ago, Brian Kotek introduced me to the concept of Object Calisthenics. Object Calisthenics is an exercise defined by Jeff Bay to help programmers think very critically about their application design choices in an object-oriented context.