(Stephen Toub) .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 saw the introduction of a wide range of new support for parallelism: the Task Parallel Library (TPL), Parallel LINQ (PLINQ), new synchronization and coordination primitives and collections (e.g. ConcurrentDictionary), an improved ThreadPool for handling p

(Keyvan Nayyeri) I don’t think I need to talk about the significance of search engine optimization for a site to drive the majority of the visitors to it. A vital part of search engine optimization is the use of sitemap which should be one of the very first features being added to a website as soon

(John Papa) Welcome to the first article of my new column, Papa’s Perspective — and thanks for reading it!

(Jim Mischel) C# is a strongly-typed language. There’s no getting around that. It’s also statically typed in that every object has a known type at compile time. The runtime also includes full type checking so that you can’t violate the type system at runtime like you can in languages like C.

(Hima) Event Routing or A Routed Event is a type of event that is has the ability to invoke handlers not only on on the object that raised the event but also on multiple listeners in an element tree.

(Imar Spaanjaars) Some time ago I was involved as a software designer and developer in an MVC 3 project that used Entity Framework Code First 4.1 in a repository layer. During development we postponed dealing with security as requirements were pretty simple (simple logons with a single Administrator

(Ben Nadel) Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about modules in JavaScript. As my client-side code has become much more complex than it used to be, I’m seeing that proper JavaScript application architecture is critically important.

(Bipin Joshi) Scaffolding involves creating base templates for code or markup of project items through an automated method. The basic templates thus generated can then be customized to meet your exact requirements.

(Dorababu M) I have seen many articles on the GridView control with scrolling headers. I tried several forums and websites, but didn’t come up with a good solution that work well enough. Some work with the browser compatibility and some others don’t work.

(Peter Vogel) Generally speaking, developers hate nulls. While an integral part of relational database theory (where they represent an unknown value), eventually nulls get passed to some variable that won’t accept them and your code blows up.