(Harikrishnan Manikkothu) If you are excited about Windows Azure platform and wanted to see how your web application behaves in new cloud environment, this article is for you to follow step by step process to convert your app and move to cloud environment.

(Ben Nadel) Last week, I was reviewing one of our ColdFusion scheduled tasks with Ryan Jeffords when I suddenly had a moment of insight. In a flash, I realized that for years, I have completely misunderstood the way durations were defined at the “daily” level of a scheduled task.

(Simon Cooper) If you’ve just joined this series, I highly recommend you read the previous posts in this series, starting here, or at least these posts, covering the CLR metadata tables.

(Bipin Joshi) Learn to use various validation techniques of ASP.NET MVC to enforce validation rules on the user input.

(Jeffrey Juday) Microsoft .NET Parallel Computing Task Parallel Library (TPL) includes mechanisms for composing and scheduling work on a ThreadPool. In an ideal software world composing and scheduling would be all that is needed. Unfortunately, a developer must deal with exceptions and may want to i

(Scott Guthrie) ASP.NET MVC 3 supports a new view-engine option called “Razor” (in addition to continuing to support/enhance the existing .aspx view engine). Razor minimizes the number of characters and keystrokes required when writing a view template, and enables a fast, fluid coding workflow.

All sequences have a notional order that can be expressed using index values in a similar manner to the indexes of an array. When projecting sequences using LINQ’s Select and SelectMany operators, this index value can be included in the projection.

(Ged Mead) Some time ago, I wrote an item that described how to add text on top of an image in Windows Forms. Basically, this involved using the DrawString method of the System Drawing Graphics class. It wasn’t particularly difficult, but still took a bit of work.

(Gil Fink) In the middle of 2008, Microsoft published the first version of the Entity Framework (Entity Framework 1) as part of Visual Studio 2008 SP1. The Entity Framework was created as an object-relational mapping (OR/M) tool that helps create an abstraction layer on top of ADO.NET namespaces. Wh

(Ben Nadel) As I’ve started to play around with Node.js, the EventEmitter class is quickly becoming one of my favorite classes. The EventEmitter class can be extended in order to provide sub-classes with publication and subscription (pub/sub) functionality.