(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, I looked at using ColdFusion 10’s Closure syntax as a light-weight, class-free way to expose selective behaviors on ColdFusion components. This was inspired by a Douglas Crockford presentation that talked about giving objets only as much authority as they need to get the job d

(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET Web Forms became popular due to the wide range of data bound controls such as GridView, DetailsView and ListView. The earlier versions of ASP.NET, however, were a bit rigid about how data was bound to these controls.

(Brij Mohan) ASP.NET Web API is a framework for building HTTP services using the .NET Framework. Since HTTP services are supported virtually by any platform so its is a powerful tool that can reach to broader range of client like Native mobile applications, browsers, desktop applications, etc.

(Alex Davies) Excited about the new async/await feature in C# 5? Can’t run your application on .NET 4.5 yet? Well that’s unsurprising, I’m not sure I’d want to use a beta version of the CLR in production.

(Akram El Assas) Three days ago, someone asked a question on MSDN forums. Yesterday, I joined the conversation. The question was about displaying the last modified date of the file on the client with the ASP .NET FileUpload server control.

(Ben Nadel) Last night, I was watching Douglas Crockford’s YUI presentation, “Principles of Security.” In his talk, Crockford discusses safe “Object Systems” in which objects are given as little authority as possible in order to do their work; “as it turns out, good design uses information hiding as

(Nilay Joshi) There is no paging support in DataGrid/ListBox in WPF.

(Richard Carr) The ninth part of the Reflection tutorial looks at how members can be reflected when they are declared in types that are involved in inheritance relationships. It explains how members in base classes can be found or hidden when reflecting a subclass.

(Eric Vogel) The command pattern is a common software design pattern that allows you to easily encapsulate the logic needed to defer execution of a method. It’s commonly used to handle control actions in a unified manner.

(Ben Nadel) For years, I have been a huge fan of the ColdFusion query object and the power of ColdFusion query-of-queries. While at times, they can present some funky and irksome data-type behaviors, these query-based operations have made storing, accessing, and mutating internal data structures a t