(Jennifer Marsman) This week, I am writing a series of blog posts on the support for parallel programming in .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010.

(KateGregory) This article is part of my series on Visual Studio Extensions. Before you read it, please read the Introduction. It tells you the purpose of the series and gives you some tips on presenting my material. This article is designed to give you what you need to deliver a successful presenta

(Sanket Terdal) With big improvements in Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools, project tracking can now be a part of development process. Anyone from team member to project managers can now update tasks, check-in code, report bugs etc.

(Malcolm Sheridan) A really cool addition to ASP.NET MVC 2 is the ability to use the dynamic type as the object passed into the view. This is also known as a dynamic view. If you create a new view and don’t create a strongly typed view, out of the box, the MVC framework will make the view inherit fr

(Ben Nadel) When it comes to AJAX and WebSockets, it’s hard to think about client-server interaction without eventually thinking about Chat. Chat applications are probably one of the first ways in which we ever experienced remote communication outside of the traditional web-based, request-response l

(Paul Kimmel) I presented at IndyTechFest–a regional day of learning–last Saturday in Indianapolis. My topic was VB Tips and Tricks for VB 2010. As always I never leave such things to chance, so as I was heading to my session room I began corralling people towards my session.

(Ashley Davis) This article explains a technique that I have used to define WPF adorners in XAML. The technique requires two custom classes.

(Scott Mitchell) Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the practice of improving a website’s position in search engines’ results using unpaid techniques. A better (higher) position in the search results will, in theory, lead to more click throughs, increasing the website’s visibility and audience.

(Andreas Grabner) Last week I got the following two questions from one of our clients:

(Jose Reyes) Many users seem to run into issues when using ASP.NET Performance counters. With that in mind, I decided to write this article to explain, in as much detail as possible, how the ASP.NET Performance counters were implemented. In the hope people will find this useful when dealing with suc