(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, when using Gmail, I started to think about keyboard shortcuts. Specifically, I started to think about how keyboard shortcuts get routed within a modular JavaScript application architecture. If I have a module that can respond to the keyboard – but, that module is not supposed

(Sean) This just in from the “Wow, I can’t believe how easy this is” update desk:

(Bipin Joshi) Many websites display notifications or prompts in what is called as information bar or notification bar. Such an information bar typically contains some text, graphics or any other HTML markup along with a close button. The information bar is always visible and is flushed with the top

(Simon Cooper) The first concurrent collection we’ll look at is ConcurrentStack. This is conceptually the same as System.Collections.Generic.Stack, but is geared towards occasional concurrent modifications.

(Dean Hume) When I first saw the Asynchronous Controllers introduced in MVC 2, I couldn’t wait to start playing around. I thought that it would be a really easy to get up and running with a simple example, but after searching online for a few working examples – pretty much all of them used an event

(Jon Galloway) The ASP.NET configuration system is build around the idea of inheritance:

(Joe Kunk) As I detailed in Part 1, iterators provide a simple mechanism to asynchronously consume the elements of a collection as they become available, rather than wait for the collection to be fully formed and then processed. Iterators provide a very easy-to-code method to improve application per

(Klaus Silveira) Learn about shared memory and how to use it in web applications as a data storage option, benefiting from high speed, reliability, and data exchange with other applications. The examples provided will show its use to solve common problems in web application development.

LINQ operators generally use lambda expressions to control their processing and output. Some operators use IEqualityComparer implementations to compare values. This article describes a generic comparer, driven by delegates, designed for use in queries.

(Rachel Appel) Welcome to the first installment of the Web Development Report, a new online column at MSDN Magazine. Each month, current topics and issues in Web application development using technologies such as HTML5, ASP.NET, jQuery, Mobile Web and more will be discussed. The area covered this mo