(Scott M. Fulton, III) In a Best Practices online advisory to browser-based Web site developers published last week, Microsoft paints a compelling picture for favoring JavaScript libraries – especially jQuery – for rendering client-side UI, over the use of plug-ins.

(Bipin Joshi) NuGet is a free and open source package management system for .NET applications. The primary goal of NuGet is to help developers simplify the process of incorporating third party libraries into their .NET applications.

(Simone Chiaretta) Because ASP.NET MVC has been designed with extensibility as its design principle; almost every logical step of the processing pipeline can be replaced with your own implementation. In fact, the best way to develop applications with ASP.NET MVC is to extend the system, Simone start

The .NET framework includes classes that allow the code generator and compiler to be controlled from within an assembly. This allows C# source code, held in a string array, to be compiled at run time and executed using basic reflection techniques.

(Ben Nadel) This week has been a very immersive week in world clocks, time zones, and the absurdly inconsistent rules of Daylight Saving Time (DST). After several days of complete befuddlement, I was finally able to gain some understanding of how all this timezone logic fits together.

(Joe Kunk) In order to be a proficient developer in any language, one must understand the language being developed in. Despite this rather obvious statement, how many have ever looked at the Visual Basic language specification? One of the best ways to know a language is in fact to read its specifi

This tutorial will walk you through the basics of object-oriented events programming in VB.Net.

(Jon Galloway) I’m starting a series going through some new features in ASP.NET MVC 4. I may accidentally build a working application along the way, for some value of working. Probably not, though. The main goal is to overview what’s in ASP.NET MVC 4.

(Sourabh Sharma) jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks that have powerful tools for developers to improves the designs integration with web sites and applications. We have discussed earlier about the website Validation.

(Chris Smith) If you’ve been waiting to figure out a strategy to handle native mobile applications, then your wait may have paid off. A new tool developed by Zend and Adobe that is built on Eclipse and leverages both PHP and Flash technologies may be the light out of the darkness.