When Microsoft released Silverlight 3 last week, there was much attention paid to its ability to support rich Internet applications outside the browser. But what does that mean for data-driven ...

Asynchronous programming helps you to improve the overall performance and responsiveness of your application. In this article we will explore the basics of asynchronous programming and write code to ...

Now that we ve gotten XML under our belt, let s start working with ADO.NET. A good way to really see what ADO can do is within the frame of a shopping cart application. In this chapter, we will create ...

In the new .NET 8 Preview 3, Microsoft introduced initial support for native Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation in the framework's web-dev component, ASP.NET Core. While choosing the AOT publishing ...