.NET Framework


Search Collections with ComponentOne LiveLINQ

LiveLINQ speeds up LINQ queries against in-memory collections by an order of magnitude -- but before you buy it, make sure you have the problems it solves.

Knowing Developers

A lot of people regard Apple and Microsoft as two sides of the same, cynical coin.

Digital Dashboard Offers Dev Hooks

Dundas Dashboard is a turnkey solution for creating customizable dashboards in Silverlight. For developers, the API is most interesting.

Unit Testing and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC and test-driven development show the future of delivering reliable applications. While Visual Studio 2010 enables you to integrate server-side testing into ASP.NET development, client-side testing presents a challenge.

C#: The Good, Bad and Ugly

It's almost 2011. The Microsoft .NET Framework and C# have been publicly available for almost 10 years -- longer if you count the early betas.

Discretionary Development at Microsoft

Have you ever wondered why the Microsoft Base Class Library (BCL) lacks an IEnumerable<T>.ForEach(...) method?

Microsoft How-To: Scrum for Everyone

Working with the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process template.

Fixing Bad Code from a Contractor

Brandon hired a software development contractor to create a Web portal using ASP.NET to complete a custom software solution for one of his company's Software as a Service customers.

A Question About the Entity Framework

Lennie Lobel, CTO of Sleek Technologies and a consultant at twentysix New York, is an expert on Entity Framework and Microsoft .NET Framework data-access technologies.

Moving the Web.Config to Production in ASP.NET 4.0

Microsoft has another solution for managing your Web.config file as you move your site to production. And, no matter what the name of this feature suggests, you don't have to learn XSLT to use it.

Miguel de Icaza on MonoTouch

Mono lead and Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza talks about MonoTouch development for the iPhone and how Mono is working to extend support to more mobile platforms.

Q&A: iPhone Development on MonoTouch

MonoTouch developer and book author Wallace McClure discusses the evolving arena of Mono-based application development for the iPhone.

Branch By Release in TFS 2010 - Part 3

Mickey concludes his look at the Branch By Release pattern.

Microsoft Kills Key Components of the 'Oslo' Modeling Platform

It's no surprise that 'Oslo', also known as SQL Server Modeling, has not survived the on-going battle of competing data platform strategies at Microsoft.

Extending Enum

The Enum or enumeration is one of the fundamental constructs in the .NET Framework, serving as an easy-to-remember set of names for a series of fixed values that are logically related. It turns out that there is a surprising amount to know about the Enum construct.

Test Driven Development in ASP.NET MVC

Peter Vogel raises some interesting questions that address one of the major benefits of ASP.NET MVC: Test Driven Development.

Three Free Tools for WCF Development

CodePlex offers a variety of free tools to improve development around Windows Communication Foundation.

Dev Collaboration: Not All Talk is Cheap

Bola Rotibi examines challenges and opportunities as social media concepts transition into the dev space.

UPDATED: Security Hack Exposes Forms Authentication in ASP.NET

Flaw in AES encryption allows tool to crack Machine Key values used to encrypt cookies in 30 to 50 minutes. Microsoft offers guidance on limiting exposure.

Branch By Release in TFS 2010 - Part 2

Mickey Gousset shows us how to implement Branch By Release merges using TFS 2010, and some new visualization features.

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