ASP.NET Tutorials & Articles
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The HTML5 History API and ASP.NET MVC
by Dan MaharryThe HTML 5 History API is one of the newer kids on the HTML 5 block. This article based on chapter 4 of HTML5 for .NET Developers shows you one way of getting history integrated with your .NET server-side web applications.
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Using NuGet Packages
by Dan MaharryNuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to pull in libraries, components, and most importantly their configuration into your visual studio project. In this article, based on chapter 5 of ASP.NET MVC 3 in Action, the authors discuss NuGet and show you how to use it to add functionality to a project.
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Deploying An Azure Application
by John MannixFollowing on from our look at the four main pieces of Windows Azure in “Introduction to Windows Azure”, John Mannix runs us through the development of an Azure application in C# and its deployment into the cloud.
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Building an HTML5 application with WebSharper Sitelets, Part 1
by Adam GraniczIn this article, we're going to look at using WebSharper, a web development framework for .NET, to build a small web application from scratch that features an HTML5-based clock.
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How to migrate your ASP.NET site to the Azure cloud
by Richard ParkerMany developers might not realise just how straightfoward it is to migrate an ASP.NET website from a hosted server into the Azure cloud. We show you how.
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Improving Web Site Performance and Scalability while saving money
by Robert BoedigheimerLearn the tools and techniques that can dramatically improve performance for a web site, while saving money by reducing server load and bandwidth requirements.
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Lessons learned writing AJAX applications
by Dino EspositoWe’re all familiar these days with the Ajax buzz word – but while it’s relatively simple to use these browser technologies to implement a specific feature in an individual page, it is much more complex to build an entire application according to the Ajax paradigm. This article offers a brief overview of a few aspects you might want to take into account for building successful applications.
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SharePoint 2010 for Developers - What’s New?
by Sahil MalikASP.NET 2.0 came to SharePoint in 2007 but the development story left us wanting more. Sahil reports on the improvements in SharePoint 2010.
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SLOBbing about with .NET
by Dave WheelerPersisting objects is all about SLOB (serialized large objects), or so says Dave Wheeler who explains how it's now all so much easier.
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Automate web application UI testing with Selenium
by Sing LiTesting web applications is a problem, but Sing Li thinks the solution might be easier than you think with Selenium.
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JSP for .NET developers
by Sing LiIt can be difficult to appreciate alien technology even if it's doing exactly the same job as something familiar and well understood. Sing Li makes it easy for .NET enthusiasts to comprehend JSP by comparing it with ASP.NET.
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Architecting systems using Windows Workflow Foundation
by Richard BlewettPuzzled by WF? Wonder what it's all for? Richard Blewett takes the mystery out of Windows Workflow.
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Mythbusting SharePoint 2010
by David McMahonWhen someone mentions SharePoint to you, what do you do? For many people SharePoint is still somewhat of a mystery, they've heard of it, but don't really know what it is. For others it is a painful memory from a few years ago, when the promise of easy web development was not fulfilled. Dave looks at what SharePoint really is, and where it's at with the release of SharePoint 2010
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The Future of .NET Languages
by Damon ArmstrongWondered why Microsoft always seems to release different language features for each language? Discover how .NET 4.0 will reduce the disparity between C# and VB.NET with some great new features for both languages, plus a new dynamic language runtime and new functional and parallel programming languages.
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The Next Generation Of Web Development
by James CrowleyWhere is Web Development moving to in the future?
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Controller Patterns for ASP.NET
by Alex HomerDiscover how to use controllers and partial views within your web applications, allowing powerful web applications to dynamically choose correct views at runtime, and preserving your seperation of concerns.
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ASP.NET Patterns every developer should know
by Alex HomerIn the first of three parts, Alex looks at some of the basic patterns in ASP.NET, and how you can apply these to your ASP.NET applications in a few simple steps.
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REST and .NET 3.5 Part 1 - why REST based services?
by Richard BlewettWhy has REST been getting so much attention recently? It's no accident that Yahoo, Google and Amazon have chosen not to use SOAP to expose their APIs. Learn some of the issues of using SOAP, and how a RESTful based architecture can resolve some of these.
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WPF Custom Controls
by George ShepherdWPF completely overturns the classic approach to developing Windows applications and adds user interface flexibility and pizzazz unavailable to Windows developers up to now. George looks at one aspect of this - implementing controls.
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Introducing Visual Studio .NET 2008 - Top 10 Features
by Mark SmithAfter a long beta period, Visual Studio .NET 2008 is finally on general release. There are a ton of new features and enhancements in this release that make it almost a no-brainer to upgrade - I thought I’d take a moment and list my top ten favorites in no particular order.
