(Ritesh Ratna) During the days, when I was working with C++, as a basic rule for design and development, it was required to track all the memory usage and then carefully release all the memory acquired. Implementing proper resource management for our applications was always very difficult and a tedi

(Scott Guthrie) Earlier this week I blogged about IIS Express, and discussed some of the work we are doing to make ASP.NET development easier from a Web Server perspective.

(Justin James) The appropriate use of exceptions is a topic that I have discussed numerous times in the last several months at my office. Some developers love to use exceptions for every single scenario; while other developers seem to shun exceptions like the plague.

(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, I started playing around with Pusher, a realtime push notification web service that allows your server to “push” updates to the client using native HTML5 or Flash-based WebSockets. If you don’t know what WebSockets are (neither did I), they provide a way for the client to open

(V.N.S Arun) In this article let us learn about web.config transformation and how it comes in so handy while performing the deployment of an ASP.NET web application.

(K. Scott Allen) One of the features (or challenges) with ASP.NET MVC is the number of approaches you can use to successfully implement a feature. Take the “log each action method” requirement. One possible approach is to use a custom action invoker, however, an action invoker already has enough res

(Benjamin Day) Performance testing and debugging is a major focus of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. Web testing and load testing have been supported in Visual Studio Team System since the 2005 release, but Visual Studio 2010 offers major improvements.

(timlee) When Visual Studio 2010 hit the market in April 2010, it had a nice surprise for hard-working web developers: a new default ASP.NET web site template that you can use to jumpstart a new site. The new template improves on previous VS site templates by giving you some nice extras in the areas

(John Charles Olamendy) Microsoft.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio.NET 2010 ships a lot of new features in their underlying technologies. In this series of articles, I want to talk about the new features in the area of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in order to improve the development experience, e

(Skip Munk) Threading is a process wherein we run operations in separate memory spaces. This is the foundation of the multi-tasking concept. Now if we look at the search functions of various programs, in some cases, once you start the search, you are not able to interact with that program or functio