(Keith) I was recently involved in rewriting the homepage for a major airline company. Performance was critical as the site receives many hundred hits every second just on the homepage alone. It required heavy use of the database due to a high level of personalized content and targeted advertising a

(Ben Nadel) In a synchronous processing workflow, the Return statement tends to indicates the end of a given function’s execution. In an asynchronous processing workflow, callbacks are more generally used to indicate the desired end of a given function’s execution.

(Alok Pandey) Here I am saving a record into a database using a Stored Procedure. At first we will create a Stored Procedure and then we will save records using the Stored Procedure in Windows Forms Application.

(Sumit Maitra) In this sample, we will create a Custom WinRT Component that adds an AutoComplete like functionality to a TextBox

(V.N.S Arun) Tuple is an inbuilt class type introduced in .net framework 4.0. This type is very useful if the developer knows when and where to use it. A tuple in .net framework 4.0 will represent a data structure whose element can be strongly typed. This type is directly added to the System namespa

(Bruno Terkaly and Ricardo Villalobos) This article is about scalability and interoperability, two characteristics that are required in architectures to support the diversity of today’s popular mobile platforms, which potentially have millions of users. Figure 1 depicts this diversity, a common—yet

(Scott Hanselman) For the most part, I’m an ASP.NET developer. I don’t need to specify MVC or Web Forms, because it’s all One ASP.NET its core. My apps are often hybrids and include not just Web Forms or MVC but also SignalR and Web API.

(Peter Vogel) If my experience with my clients (and with the participants in the courses I teach) is any guide, you’re probably not using Test-Driven Development (TDD). One reason developers don’t use TDD is because it’s presented so badly. For instance, even though most developers spend most of the

(Davin Martyn) Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a new web development technique for interactive websites. With AJAX help we can develop web applications and retrieve a small amount of data from a web server. AJAX consists of a different type of technology.

(Rick_Anderson) The most frequent question posted in the ASP.NET MVC forums was on using the DropDownList (DDL) helper. I wrote a tutorial and a blog to address these questons; you can find my tutorial here and a blog entry here.