(David Talbot) MVC3 gives you great control over how URLs are mapped to your controllers. It gives you the ability to define your URLs in a human readable SEO (Search Engine Optimization) friendly fashion, to remap old URLs to new functionality and side-by-side utilize classic ASP.NET sites inside o

(Jani Giannoudis) When implementing some software for another project, I came across several requirements involving calculations with time periods. These calculations were an important part of the solution and had high demands in respect to correctness and accuracy of the results.

(Malcolm Sheridan) Every once in a while, you have text that you need to translate. I ran into this recently where the user would login, go to a specific page and be able to type in text and have it translated on the fly. After some research I found that Microsoft had a service called Microsoft Tran

(Corey Roth) As someone who focuses mostly on ECM and Search, I am a huge fan of the new Metadata Navigation feature on document libraries in SharePoint 2010. It provides a great alternative to folders when it comes to navigating your document libraries.

(Simon Cooper) Any close look at the method definitions in a .NET assembly has to start off with the method’s information in the metadata tables – the MethodDef. So lets do that.

(Ben Nadel) I love a good Try / Catch block! In fact, I used one just the other day when dealing with transactional rollbacks involving 3rd party APIs. But, as far as the Try / Catch control flow goes, I never quite understood the need for a “Finally” statement; if you have a Catch statement, why no

(Jeffrey Juday) Debugging is a frustrating experience. The last thing a developer needs is insufficient debugging support or difficulties operating the Debugger. Visual Studio has had intuitive debugging facilities for some time now. However the advent of Parallel Computing capabilities like the .NE

(Peter Vogel) As I discussed in earlier columns on ASP.NET MVC , I think that the chief issue organizations will be concerned with in adopting the tool will be developers’ productivity compared to ASP.NET.

(Karthikeyan Anbarasan) The .Net Framework 4.0 introduces a new programming architecture for doing multiple processes asynchronously that greatly simplifies the application load and gets better performance.

Recently I was working with a Microsoft Silverlight project, debugging a XAML binding error. After a few hours of searching, I found a blog describing how to alter the WPF Trace Settings to enable a more verbose output while debugging.