(Jon Davis) Caching is a fundamental component of working software. The role of any cache is to decrease the performance footprint of data I/O by moving it as close as possible to the execution logic. At the lowest level of computing, a thread relies on a CPU cache to be loaded up each time the thre

(Viacheslav Agafonov) The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 is a software framework that can be installed on computers running Microsoft Windows operating systems. Current version is 4.0.30319.1 (4.0) / 12 April 2010; it is supported Windows 98 or later, Windows NT 4.0 or later. Programs written for the

(Scott Hunter) One of the common things people want to do when displaying data with grid controls is to have the little up and down arrows next to the header columns to indicated what direction the data is being sorted in. You see this in Windows Explorer and many other programs. This has been tradi

(Ben Nadel) One of the many cool things that Elliott Sprehn talked about in his CFUNITED 2010 presentation was the fact that ColdFusion component variables could be overridden using method arguments. After I saw this, I tried to experiment with this concept on my own. At first, I could not get it wo

(Mike Gold) Silverlight gives users the ability to create an extremely rich UI experience for the user, but what about the server? How can I take advantage of Silverlight to do simple access to a server whether it’s a LINUX Web Server or a Windows Web Server? What if I want to make REST calls to m

(Ben Nadel) At CFUNITED 2010, I attended Elliott Sprehn’s presentation, “I Bet You Didn’t Know You Could Do That With ColdFusion.” In his code samples, I saw something that I had never seen before – he was using quoted-keys in his ColdFusion implicit struct creation. In ColdFusion 8, this definitely

(Dave Richter) The purpose of this tutorial is to present some basics about LINQ for certain individuals who may have not gained an understanding of LINQ. LINQ unifies data access, whatever the source of data, and allows mixing data from different kind of sources. LINQ means “Language-Integrated Que

Silverlight (formerly known as Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere) is a browser plug-in that can be used to enhance the look and feel of web based applications designed on top of the managed environment of the CLR. Silverlight 4.0 is a new version of Silverlight that runs on top of .NET Fram

(Mike Gold) One of the unfortunate limitations of the TreeView and RadTreeView (Telerik) in Silverlight is that if you add a few hundred items to a tree node, the expand and collapse of the node become severely sluggish. One way around this painful symptom is to put paging inside your tree node. H

(Peter Vogel) As I said in the first article in this series ( ASP.NET MVC for the ASP.NET Programmer ) the benefit of ASP.NET MVC that I like best is its support for Test Driven Development (TDD). In my last column ( Controlling Controllers in ASP.NET MVC ), I walked through the process of building