The LINQ partitioning operators allow the first elements of a sequence to be extracted, or skipped so that all other elements are returned. When using TakeWhile and SkipWhile, the index of each item can be included in the predicate.

(Dustin Metzgar) From the perspective of a WCF developer, the interaction between WCF and ASP.NET can be a black box. But to understand the performance of a system, it is necessary to know how all the components interact. This post covers how threads work when a request is sent to a WCF service host

(Vincent Maverick Durano) If you were using the customized MessageBox, ConfirmBox and FrameBox controls and wanted to modify the look and feel of the these controls then you should be happy because the new version of the ProudMonkey controls provide some properties that you can set to customize the

(Peter Vogel) This tip is for C# developers only, unfortunately — but it’s the easiest way in the world to create an iterator. An iterator is any method that returns the “next item” in a series. The issue with an iterator is that you have to return a value when called and then pick up at the “next

(Ben Nadel) The CFThread tag, in ColdFusion, is a powerful but mysterious beast. Threads allow us to perform some very efficient, asynchronous tasks; but, at the same time, they can be tricky to interact with if you don’t understand how they work.

(Ged Mead) I’ve done a lot of work with WPF in the past few years, but only recently turned my hand to to its smaller sibling, Silverlight. One of the first things I always want to know about with any new technology like this is to find out how easy it is to deploy and maintain my applications.

Many software projects involve interaction with the file system. When this requires that a list of drive letters is generated, or that a drive or folder’s files and subfolders are retrieved, the Directory class can be used to obtain the list.

(Jeffrey Juday) Active Object is a common pattern for hiding access to concurrent data structures and simplifying an object’s interface. Task Parallel Library (TPL) includes all the structures needed to build an Active Object.

(Mahesh Sabnis) A common question that comes up while discussing Application Development in WCF, ASP.NET or MVC applications is the use of ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF). .NET professionals having experiences with other O-R-M tools like NHibernate etc. are eager to know about ADO.NET EF and its new f

(Abhijeet Pandit) This article discusses how to control JQGrid using familiar ASP.Net page life cycle and data sources.