(Laurent Ellerbach) Here is the code from my first French TechDays demo. The video will be available soon (I’ll edit this post as soon as it will be available). During this first demo, I explained how to use the IO in a simple way: OutputPort, InterruptPort, InputPort and Analogic input ports.

(Shirsendu Nandi) First of all I will discuss the general repository pattern in this article; later we will discuss the generic repository pattern.

(Ben Nadel) For the last year or so, people have been very curious about the idea of adding Closures to ColdFusion 10 – code name, Zeus. Some of these people are excited about the power of closures; others are confused as to what a closure is and how a closure can even add value to the ColdFusion wo

(Scott Guthrie) A few days ago we released the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta. This is a significant release that brings with it a bunch of great new features and capabilities.

(Steven Bey) Recently, I started working on a large eCommerce website, implemented in ASP.NET MVC 3. I soon found that many of the forms in the site contained code similar to Figure 1, which I took an instant dislike to.

(Scott) HTTP is the protocol that enables us to buy microwave ovens from Amazon.com, reunite with an old friend in a Facebook chat, and watch funny cat videos on YouTube. HTTP is the protocol behind the World Wide Web. It allows a web server from a datacenter in the United States to ship information

(Rebecca M. Riordan) In this chapter, we’ll talk about development platforms, application architectures, development methodologies, design patterns, and best practices for C#, and where they all fit in the process of getting from here (an idea for some software) to there (a working application).

(Paul Ferrill) It seems like every time you turn around as a developer there’s a new technology you have to learn just to stay relevant. Moving applications to the cloud gets a lot of attention from management because they see it for the possible cost savings. What they don’t see is the amount of ef

(CarlosFigueira) There has historically been in Microsoft many ways of doing the same thing. That’s one of the original goals of WCF when it was created: unify the 5 or so different ways of creating distributed applications using the Microsoft stack (ASMX services, COM+, .NET Remoting, MSMQ and one

(Peter Vogel) In an earlier tip on using tuples to return multiple values from a method, several readers noted that the tuple’s property names (Item1, Item2) left a lot to be desired — you couldn’t really call those names “self-documenting”.