(Sivaraman Dhamodaran) The Calendar control in ASP.Net allows you to pick a date. Why do we need a control like this for picking a date that involves navigation when it is easy to type the date in a specific format on a textbox? Well, a Calendar control is usually used as a calendar and the control

(Ben Nadel) A couple of days ago, I came up with a solution for fleshing out a list of movie showtimes that only provided a partial set of AM/PM indicators. I wasn’t terribly happy with the ColdFusion solution I came up with; however, it was the first solution that I had that actually seemed to work

(Dhananjay Kumar) WCF 4 comes with many new features for a better developer experience. There is a high integration with workflow service.

(Scott Guthrie) Last week I blogged about the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update, and then followed it up with a detailed post that covered using the EF Code First and the new Data Scaffolding features in it.

(Phil Haack) ASP.NET MVC project templates include support for precompiling views, which is useful for finding syntax errors within your views at build time rather than at runtime.

(Ben Nadel) In my ColdFusion.js framework (a port of the ColdFusion Application Framework to Node.js), session cookies and session tokens are implicitly managed by the underlying framework. You can, however, tell the ColdFusion.js framework not to set client cookies.

(Bipin Joshi) The increased use of JavaScript and libraries based on JavaScript (such as ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery) results in a considerable amount of JavaScript being downloaded on the client side. The need for large amounts of JavaScript to be downloaded may result in your website getting a perform

(Jonathan Wood) When passing variables between pages in ASP.NET, you have a few techniques you can choose from. One of the simplest is to use query arguments (e.g. http://www.domain.com/page.aspx?arg1=val1&arg2=val2). In ASP.NET, query arguments are easy to implement and use.

In the .NET framework version 4.0 Microsoft introduced the Zip method to the set of standard query operators. This extension method combines pairs of values from two sequences to generate a third set of values.

(Ben Nadel) Last week, I blogged about Prototypal inheritance in Javascript, demonstrating that poor constructor logic can break the underlying inheritance mechanism. In that post, as well as in the one regarding private variables and Javascript constructors, people pointed out that Javascript’s Obj