(Arik Poznanski) This is a review of the current available collection types in .NET Framework 4.0.

(Suprotim Agarwal) A .NET attribute is an object, that provides a mechanism to associate information (metadata) with an element in your program. The Common Language Runtime (CLR) then uses these attributes and determines how to interact with these elements. You can also create custom attributes and

(Malcolm Sheridan) A new addition to ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 has been the improvement in model binding JSON data posted to an action through an Ajax form post. This makes it simple to post JSON data to any action method. Sometimes in ASP.NET MVC 2 this was difficult to do, but not anymore. Instead o

(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, jQuery announced the official adoption of the Microsoft-proposed templating library into their core set of supported and endorsed plugins. I’ve looked at the proposed template plugin in the past; however, now that it is officially endorsed by jQuery, I figured it was time to d

(Peter Vogel) Working with ASP.NET in design mode, dragging and dropping controls onto a Page’s design surface, it’s easy to forget that it’s just a convenience. Anything you do graphically in Visual Studio always generates text in some file somewhere. When you drag a control onto a page some code i

(Brian Mains) The ASP.NET MVC framework was a giant leap into the Alt.Net world of development for Microsoft, through Alt.Net ideas and principles have been practiced for ages before this framework was released. The framework itself provides flavors of aspect-oriented programming, loose coupling by

Securing an ASP.NET application is paramount for any project. Here (in no particular order), in this tutorial we present the primary ASP.NET security best practices:

(Mike Gold) Most binding in WPF is pretty straightforward (such as binding a TextBlock to a string), but binding to a more complex data structure is not as intuitive. This article explains how to bind a Dictionary in your ViewModel to a ComboBox.

(AzamSharp) TreeView allows to display the data in a hierarchical format. There are many different ways of populating a TreeView control which includes SiteMap files, XML files and custom entity collections. In this article we will demonstrate how to populate the TreeView control using different sou

(Mark Strawmyer) Welcome to this installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column. Some of my prior .NET Nuts and Bolts columns have provided an introduction and examples with the Entity Framework (see Introducing the Entity Framework and Joins and UI Binding with the Entity Framework). This article is g