(Manabendra Roy) .NET 4 brings a powerful Task library to support a piece of code to run in parallel processors. What it does just simply spawns threads into multiple processes using the newly written task libraries (System.Threading.Tasks) in mscorlib 4.0. Task libraries contain methods like For, F

(Jani Jarvinen) Multi-core processors are here to say, and to stay competitive developers need to learn new tricks to utilize these swift chips. With the introduction of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0, Microsoft has given developers betters tools and class libraries to create mu

(Peter Vogel) I was recently asked by one of the participants taking an ASP.NET course with me if there was a way to prevent an item in the sitemap from appearing on the menu but still have it appear on SiteMapPath (the control that gives you a “breadcrumbs-like” description of where a page fits int

(Jennifer Marsman) More great support for parallel computing in .NET 4.0 can be found in the static Parallel class. This static class provides support for parallelizing regions of your code. It’s located in the namespace System.Threading.Tasks.

(Mike Gold) In previous versions of Visual Studio, you would deploy your application using a Setup Wizard. Microsoft has changed the model slightly and is nudging the developer towards the clickonce model. You can easily deploy your application through clickonce in Visual Studio 2010. Read on and

(Paul Krill) Microsoft is enabling its free SQL CE (SQL Server Compact Edition) database to work within ASP.Net Web applications, thus providing a lightweight database option for ASP.Net Web development, a Microsoft official said this week.

(Scott Guthrie) One of the things my team has been working on has been a new view engine option for ASP.NET.

(BlackWasp) Highly confidential information, such as passwords or banking details, should be encrypted in memory during use to reduce the risk that it may be revealed to malware or forensic examination. The SecureString class provides this encryption automatically.

(Michael Sorens) Prototyping with Sketchflow transforms what was once a frustrating and time-consuming chore. With SketchFlow, WPF prototypes can be created and changed with amazing ease. SketchFlow is WPF’s secret weapon. Well, it was secret until Michael Sorens produced this article.

Scott Mitchell introduces you to ASP.NET, shows you how to install Visual Web Developer, along with the .NET Framework and SQL Server 2008, and helps you create your first ASP.NET page.