I'll walk you through how to create a basic counting application that illustrates the principles involved when using threading in .NET applications. This application relies on a ThreadController class ...

Microsoft announced a 'special invitation with a' 'sweet offer' to developers attending the upcoming Visual Studio Live! developer conference in Las Vegas, headlined by the company's expert developers ...

All of these solutions work, but none are ideal. At the least, extra code is required to marshal and process the data, both on the client and on the server. Sometimes that extra code makes debugging ...

AJAX has caught on tremendously as a method for building dynamic and interactive Web sites. Learn what AJAX is, what its benefits are, and how you can implement the technology in your own applications ...

Take advantage of custom generic collections to manipulate data more easily in real-world applications.

A priority queue is a data structure that holds information that has some sort of priority value. When an item is removed from a priority queue, it's always the item with the highest priority.

You can have a huge impact on customer satisfaction by improving your .NET application's perceived performance—that is, users' perception of the application's performance. You can have the fastest box ...

This is why I sifted through dozens of tools and utilities to come up with a list of free tools that can help .NET developers do their jobs better. I looked at both standalone tools -- which can be of ...

Windows 8 is an ambitious project: An OS that wants to be all things to all people, as comfortable on an ARM processor as on the newest generation of fire-breathing Intel chips, and allowing ...

Microsoft was already well on its way to creating the next version of Visual Studio (code-named "Hawaii") when it released VS 2008. Learn what the future holds for .NET developers.

Microsoft readies its new 'cloud database' by hosting beta versions of REST and SOAP protocols for performing CRUD operations on clustered, customized SQL Server 2008 instances. These instances are ...

FlipView, ListView and GridView are new controls for Windows 8 Metro-style applications. They'll become key tools for building great-looking UIs.