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Optimizing a High-Performance Computing Tool

Red Gate Software, Dec 01, 2008

Measure bottlenecks first, interpret the results carefully, then optimize.

Calling Web Services in ASP.NET AJAX

Brian Mains, Nov 30, 2008

Brian Mains talks about calling Web Services in ASP.NET AJAX

Roadmap of Microsoft Certifications - SQL Server Certifications

Pinal Dave, Nov 27, 2008

Pinal Dave talks about Microsoft SQL Server Certifications.

Introduction to Telerik’s AJAX Capabilities

Brian Mains, Nov 25, 2008

Brian Mains reviews the Telerik’s AJAX controls.

Review: ANTS Profiler 4

Granville Barnett, Nov 20, 2008

We take a look at the new ANTS Profiler 4 from Redgate.

Complex Types in LINQ-to-SQL—Reloaded

Dino Esposito, Nov 18, 2008

Dino Esposito talks about complex types in LINQ-to-SQL.

How to create your own Visual WebGui Silverlight Theme

Eyal Albert, Nov 12, 2008

In this "How to" we are going to learn how to create your own Visual WebGui Silverlight theme using our default theme.

Cloudship: Membership Provider for the Cloud

Tanzim Saqib, Nov 11, 2008

Planning to move to the Azure Cloud, but already tied to the Membership API? This article guides you to build a complete Membership provider library which can be leveraged by existing application to link to Microsoft’s cloud platform Windows Azure with no friction.

Building Model-View-Presenter applications with MVC#. Part 3: Advanced Customization (Office 2007)

Oleg Zhukov, Nov 10, 2008

Oleg Zhukov talks about building applications with MVC#.

Building applications for Windows Azure

Tanzim Saqib, Nov 06, 2008

This article walks through the steps to build an application from scratch on the recently released Windows Azure CTP, Microsoft’s answer to cloud computing.

Tracking User Activity

Scott Mitchell, Nov 05, 2008

Scott Mitchell talks about tracking user activity in web applications.

JQuery Primer - Part 2

Karl Seguin, Nov 03, 2008

Build highly reusable JavaScript components by leveraging JQuery's simple plug-in architecture.

Modeling domains with The Entity Data Model

Patrik Löwendahl, Oct 31, 2008

Patrick Loewendahl talks about modeling domains with the Entity Data Model.

JQuery Primer – Part 1

Karl Seguin, Oct 29, 2008

JQuery is a lightweight, yet powerful, JavaScript library specializing in DOM traversal and manipulation, event handling, and extensibility. It is quickly becoming the premiere JavaScript library of choice due to its elegant and simple syntax.

Book Review: Code Leader

Brian Mains, Oct 27, 2008

Brian Mains writes a quick book Review about the Code Leader.

ASP.NET AJAX Development Approach Part 5

Brian Mains, Oct 23, 2008

Brain Mains talks about rendering the UI of a control with ASP.NET AJAX.

Design Your Classes for Testability

Dino Esposito, Oct 20, 2008

Dino Esposito talks about software testing and testability.

Book Review: Silverlight 2 In Action

Faisal Khan, Oct 14, 2008

Review of the book Silverlight 2.0 In Action

Design Patterns – Part 7

Granville Barnett, Oct 13, 2008

In this part of the design patterns series we will take a look at the template pattern.

Design Patterns – Part 6

Granville Barnett, Oct 08, 2008

In this part of the design patterns series we will look at the adapter pattern.

Design Patterns – Part 5

Granville Barnett, Oct 06, 2008

In this part of the design patterns series we investigate the command pattern and its uses.

How to use Visual WebGui client client invocation

Eyal Albert, Sep 25, 2008

In this “How to” we are going to learn how to use Visual WebGui client invocation.

.NET Classes Now Can Have Extensions

Dino Esposito, Sep 21, 2008

Dino Esposito talks about extension methods in .NET

Design Patterns – Part 4

Granville Barnett, Sep 17, 2008

In this part of the design patterns series we will look at the singleton pattern.

Implementing Search in ASP.NET with Google Custom Search

Scott Mitchell, Sep 15, 2008

Scott Mitchell shows how to implement searching with Google Custom Search in ASP.NET.