(timlee) Have you ever noticed how complex it can be to add, remove, and update libraries of code functionality in Visual Studio? First you have to hunt all over the place to find the library you want. Then you have to download it, and figure out how to install it.

(Satheesh Babu) By default, LINQ to SQL use lazy loading or deferred loading to get the related object. Lazy loading is a technique where a data is loaded only on demand. For example, consider a simple data model with Employee and Department.

(Scott Guthrie) On Tuesday I blogged about the recent release of the ASP.NET MVC 3 RC build. You can read more about it here.

(Kenneth Downs) It seems strange to me that I’ve been working on this blog for 3 years or so (with one very long break) and somehow never got around to writing a simple list of skills that all database experts need. So here it is!

(Malcolm Sheridan) Everyone knows Razor is the new view engine created by Microsoft. Razor syntax is more fluent and readable, and in my opinion, easier to maintain. One feature of Razor that isn’t widely publicised is the addition of the ViewStart page. ViewStart is a file that can store common fun

(Simon Cooper) Arrays in .NET are curious beasts. They are the only built-in collection types in the CLR, and SZ-arrays (single dimension, zero-indexed) have their own commands and IL syntax. One of their stranger properties is they have a kind of built-in covariance long before generic variance was

You might have read the tutorial series introducing the master page and website templates. The website development steps discussed in those tutorial series include designing the master page (MasterPage.master), creating a new ASP.NET page that will inherit from the master page (e.g About.aspx, Term.

(Ahmed Moustafa) Although you may see both the terms, “Bags” and “Multi-Valued Property”, they refer to the same thing. While this naming change was not included with the latest WCF Data Services 2010 October CTP release, based on community feedback, we’ve decided to use Multi-Valued Property for al

(Ben Nadel) The other day, Ray Camden and Stephen Duncan Jr. blew my mind when they demonstrated that you could use the argumentCollection parameter when invoking a ColdFusion web service. I don’t mean to be redundant in my blogging; but, this finding is just so ridiculously awesome that I had to sp

(Peter Vogel) This series began with a discussion in an earlier column about the best way to incorporate a grid into an ASP.NET MVC application (assuming you don’t want to write all the JavaScript yourself). I suggested that the right answer would be to use a client-side grid. In my last column , I