(Sarah Wolfe) “The concept of a WebHook is simple. A WebHook is an HTTP callback: an HTTP POST that occurs when something happens; a simple event-notification via HTTP POST.”

Windows Azure, just like any other IIS website can crash if an unhandled exception occurs. One way that this can happen is if you are calling an Async function call and in the function that is called on completion, you throw an exception.

(K. Scott Allen) ASP.NET MVC 4 allows you to bundle multiple JavaScript or CSS files into a single “bundled” download, and optionally minify the bundle to reduce the download size. John Peterson has a good introduction to the feature.

(Richard Carr) Application settings provide a useful means for configuring applications and retaining user settings between program executions. When it is necessary to monitor those settings for changes, four standard events can be subscribed to.

(Justin James) Amongst all of the hoopla around the Windows 8 Consumer Preview launch at the end of February, it was easy to miss the release of the Visual Studio 11 Beta and updates to other .NET technologies. While there isn’t too much more here that wasn’t known beforehand (the ASP.NET Web API is

(Dino Esposito) Part of the power of Visual Studio lies in the many templates it offers when you are about to start a new project. Just as every journey begins with a small step, any software project, regardless of the final size, begins with a new project. For ASP.NET MVC in particular, what would

(V.N.S Arun) Concurrent collections in .NET Framework 4.0 allow the developers to create type safe as well as thread safe collections. These collection classes form an essential part of the parallel programming feature and are available under the namespace System.Collections.Concurrent.

(Ben Nadel) A few years ago, I demonstrated that the FORM scope does not exist during SOAP-based web service calls. SOAP requests are handled somewhat outside of the normal ColdFusion page request model. In ColdFusion 10, we now have native WebSocket calls.

(Scott Hanselman) I talked about some new features that have snuck made their way into the free version of Visual Studio for Web. One of the more useful ones is the Browser Chooser that allows you to quickly launch debug sessions with different browsers from within VS.

(K. Scott Allen) Most remote LINQ providers can handle simple projections. For example, given a Movie class with lots of properties, and a MovieSummary class with a subset of those Movie properties, you can write a LINQ query like the following: