(Joe Kunk) Many computer users live in the Microsoft Office suite, using Word, Excel and Outlook as the core tools to perform the majority of their daily computer tasks. I am amazed at the number of serious .NET business software developers that fail to exploit this familiar and comfortable environm

(Alejandro Campos Magencio) The other day a customer of mine was trying to verify the validity of a certificate with a .NET code like the following:

(Ben Nadel) Last week, I started playing around with PubNub – a cloud-based, realtime messaging platform. In my first post, I explored the ability for client applications to send messages to each other (using JavaScript) without the aid of any server-side proxy.

(K. Scott Allen) If you want to simulate an exception from an IQueryable data source, be careful about when the exception is thrown. As an example, let’s use the following interface.

This tutorial will teach you how to implement Gzip and deflate compression in an ASP.Net website, allowing you to save up to 70% in bandwidth transmission.

(Bipin Joshi) In ASP.NET MVC applications, the requests sent by the client browser are actually “routes”. Depending on the route definitions defined by the developer the requests then reach a particular controller.

(Malcolm Sheridan) My first article in this series focused on how to have Multiple submit buttons in the same ASP.NET MVC form, and how to differentiate them in your action method. If you missed it you can read it here.

(Ben Nadel) Last night, I finally got around to playing with the PubNub JavaScript library. PubNub provides an API for “push” communication that can broadcast textual messages to a wide range of devices including desktop, TV, and mobile.

(Sanket Terdal) The primary goal of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern is to separate as neatly as possible the code that generates the graphical interface displayed to users from the code that manages any user actions.

Visual Studio 2010 Visual Experience Visual Studio 2010 was the first version of Microsoft’s integrated development environment to use Windows Presentation Foundation for its graphical rendering. This allows richer graphics and animations with hardware acceleration but can cause problems.