.NET Programming

Working with application domains in .Net

Leverage application domains to provide a level of isolation inside the managed environment so as to enable multiple applications to run in a single process

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jan 4, 2016 4 mins

Software Development

How to work with indexers in C#

Take advantage of indexers in C# to access an instance of a class or a struct by using indexes

By Joydip Kanjilal

Dec 24, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

New features in WCF 4.5

WCF has matured a lot over the years, and the new WCF 4.5 comes up with many significant improvements

By Joydip Kanjilal

Dec 23, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

How to work with Sockets in C#

Take advantage of sockets in C# to implement inter-process communication for the purpose of sharing data over a network

By Joydip Kanjilal

Dec 18, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

My two cents on contracts in WCF

Take advantage of contracts, a standard followed in WCF to specify what your WCF service is supposed to do

By Joydip Kanjilal

Dec 17, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

How to use the Facade design pattern in C#

Take advantage of the facade design pattern to provide a simplified interface to a set of sub systems and hence reduce the dependencies and complexities in your designs

By Joydip Kanjilal

Dec 10, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

New features in SQL Server 2016

Take advantage of the mission-critical capabilities in SQL Server 2016 for real time operational analytics, rich data visualizations and improved data security

By Joydip Kanjilal

Dec 9, 2015 4 mins

Databases Software Development

How to work with performance counters in C#

Take advantage of performance counters to get an insight on the performance of your applications

By Joydip Kanjilal

Nov 25, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Understanding thread pools in C#

Take advantage of thread pools to create and use threads on demand and improve the responsiveness of your application

By Joydip Kanjilal

Nov 24, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

How to work with attributes in C#

Take advantage of attributes to embed metadata information to your assemblies and decorate the business objects in your C# application.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Nov 20, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

How to build custom rules with FxCop

Take advantage of the FxCop library to build custom rules and enforce code quality

By Joydip Kanjilal

Nov 18, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

How to implement the Builder design pattern

Take advantage of the Builder design pattern to create complex objects in a step by step manner

By Joydip Kanjilal

Nov 13, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

How to work with ActionResults in Web API

Leverage action results to return data as an HttpResponseMessage object from your Web API controller method

By Joydip Kanjilal

Nov 11, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

How to host your Web API in a separate process

Explore ways to build and host your Web API in a separate process

By Joydip Kanjilal

Nov 6, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

How to work with unsafe code in .Net

Unsafe code helps you to write unmanaged code that wouldn't be handled by the execution environment of the CLR. This article takes a look at how we can work with unsafe code in the managed environment of .Net.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Oct 30, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

How to perform asynchronous file operations in C#

You can take advantage of asynchrony to perform resource-intensive I/O operations sans the need to block the main or the executing thread of the application. This article presents an overview on asynchronous file operations using C#.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Oct 21, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

How to work with message handlers in Web API

Take advantage of message handlers to execute cross cutting concerns earlier in the Web API life cycle

By Joydip Kanjilal

Oct 12, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

Implement HTTP authentication in Web API

In this article I would present a discussion on implementing HTTP authentication in Web API with code examples to illustrate the concepts discussed.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Oct 8, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

Protect your assemblies using obfuscation

Obfuscation makes your assemblies hard to reverse-engineer, thereby protecting your intellectual property

By Joydip Kanjilal

Sep 29, 2015 3 mins

Intellectual Property Security Software Development

Best practices to facilitate garbage collection in .Net

Although .Net is adept at reclaiming managed objects, you should follow certain guidelines to facilitate faster garbage collection to improve the performance of your application. This article presents a discussion on how garbage collection works and ....

By Joydip Kanjilal

Sep 25, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Improve your application startup time using multicore JIT

.Net framework 4.5 and later versions can leverage the multiple cores in your system by allowing the JIT compilation to run in two processors in parallel; hence reducing the compilation time. This article discusses in depth how Multicore JIT compilat....

By Joydip Kanjilal

Sep 23, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

How to work with generics in C#

Generics enables you to work with type safe data with no boxing and un-boxing overhead. You can leverage generics to create typesafe collections, create classes and methods that can accept a type as a parameter. This helps your code to be much more m....

By Joydip Kanjilal

Sep 18, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Working with the Entity Client Data Provider in Entity framework

Take advantage of the Entity Client Provider -- a client side query engine, to execute queries against a conceptual model of data

By Joydip Kanjilal

Sep 17, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Working with the Adapter design pattern

Leverage the Adapter design pattern to map incompatible interfaces, increase code coverage, and reduce complexities in designs

By Joydip Kanjilal

Sep 11, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Working with Protocol Buffers in Web API

Take advantage of Protocol Buffers media formatter in your Web API services to reduced payload and generate faster responses

By Joydip Kanjilal

Sep 10, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Explore the different approaches to model entities in Entity Framework

There are three approaches to model your entities in Entity Framework: Code First, Model First, and Database first. This article discusses all these three approaches and their pros and cons

By Joydip Kanjilal

Sep 3, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Transferring large data over the wire using WCF

Take advantage of the streamed transfer mode to transfer large amounts of data using WCF

By Joydip Kanjilal

Aug 28, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Best practices in caching in ASP.Net

Caching enables the web page to be rendered faster, and proper use of caching minimizes or reduces database hits or consumption of server's resources

By Joydip Kanjilal

Aug 27, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Exploring the dependency injection principle

Take advantage of the dependency injection principle to provide support for pluggable implementations in your application and build loosely coupled, testable components

By Joydip Kanjilal

Aug 21, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

ASP.Net SignalR library builds apps that can communicate in real-time

SignalR is an open source library written in .Net that simplifies the exchange of data between a web browser and a web server using WebSockets as a communication protocol. This article presents an in-depth discussion on SignalR.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Aug 19, 2015 4 mins

Web Development

Exploring the Liskov Substitution Principle

The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) is a fundamental principle of OOP and states that derived classes should be able to extend their base classes without changing their behaviour

By Joydip Kanjilal

Aug 14, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Learning SynchronizationContext, async, and await

Understand the core concepts behind asynchronous programming to build applications that are responsive

By Joydip Kanjilal

Aug 7, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Implementing the interface segregation principle

The interface segregation principle states that the clients should not be compelled to implement an interface that contains declarations of members or operations that they don't need. This article explores this principle with code examples.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Aug 3, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Exploring instancing, concurrency and throttling in WCF

When working in WCF you should be aware of the concepts of instancing, throttling and concurrency to build services that are scalable and can provide better throughput

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jul 31, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

Realize the Open Closed Principle using abstractions

The main objective behind the Open Closed Principle was that once the application has been tested and deployed in the production system, you should no longer have to change the existing source code. Ideally, you should enable such changes to the exis....

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jul 29, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Working with the ServiceStack open source, cross platform Web service framework

ServiceStack is a good alternative to popular Microsoft technologies like WCF and WebAPI for building scalable web services because of its simplicity, high performance, true platform independence and less configuration. This article presents an overv....

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jul 22, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

Design for change: Coupling and cohesion in object oriented systems

Reduce coupling and maximize cohesion to build systems that are scalable, manageable and can be extended over time

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jul 17, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

Best practices in using RESTful services

Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural paradigm that is used to create reusable, scalable services. REST divides an application's state and functionality is divided into resources. This article discusses the best practices w....

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jul 10, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Implementing the Single Responsibility Principle in C#

This post discusses the Single Responsibility Principle and illustrates how one can avoid designs that are fragile and can break over time by following this principle.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jul 9, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

Exploring routing in Web API

This article discusses how routing works in Web API and how it is different from MVC

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jun 30, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Best practices to improve application performance in ASP.Net

This article explores the various ways you can improve the application performance of web applications built using ASP.Net

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jun 29, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Best practices in ASP.Net MVC

Take advantage of the recommended best practices and tips to build applications using ASP.Net MVC that can scale and are responsive, fast, easier to test and maintain

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jun 26, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Best practices in optimizing LINQ performance

This article discusses the best practices to optimize LINQ query performance

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jun 15, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

Best practices in WCF: Security, hosting and error handling guidelines

Take advantage of the best practices to build and host secure WCF services

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jun 11, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

The factory method and abstract factory design patterns: managing object creation efficiently

Understand the factory and abstract factory design patterns to effectively manage object creation in your applications

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jun 5, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Best practices in WCF: Service design and performance guidelines

In this series of articles on WCF best practices, I would like to explore the best practices that can be adopted to build and deploy secure, reliable, scalable, interoperable and responsive WCF services.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jun 4, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Exploring the MVC, MVP, and MVVM design patterns

A good understanding of the presentation patterns helps you to build applications that are easier to test and maintain

By Joydip Kanjilal

May 25, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Best practices to improve Entity Framework performance

Performance considerations and best practices to improve Entity Framework performance

By Joydip Kanjilal

May 20, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Best practices in handling concurrency in ADO.net

Concurrency handling enables you to ensure data safety, integrity and consistency when multiple users access the same piece of data concurrently

By Joydip Kanjilal

May 15, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Visual Studio Code: A fast, lightweight, cross-platform code editor

Microsoft has recently announced the release of its lightweight, super-fast, cross platform development tool for building modern Web and cloud applications

By Joydip Kanjilal

May 6, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

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.NET Programming

Working with application domains in .Net

How to work with indexers in C#

New features in WCF 4.5

How to work with Sockets in C#

My two cents on contracts in WCF

How to use the Facade design pattern in C#

New features in SQL Server 2016

How to work with performance counters in C#

Understanding thread pools in C#

How to work with attributes in C#

How to build custom rules with FxCop

How to implement the Builder design pattern

How to work with ActionResults in Web API

How to host your Web API in a separate process

How to work with unsafe code in .Net

How to perform asynchronous file operations in C#

How to work with message handlers in Web API

Implement HTTP authentication in Web API

Protect your assemblies using obfuscation

Best practices to facilitate garbage collection in .Net

Improve your application startup time using multicore JIT

How to work with generics in C#

Working with the Entity Client Data Provider in Entity framework

Working with the Adapter design pattern

Working with Protocol Buffers in Web API

Explore the different approaches to model entities in Entity Framework

Transferring large data over the wire using WCF

Best practices in caching in ASP.Net

Exploring the dependency injection principle

ASP.Net SignalR library builds apps that can communicate in real-time

Exploring the Liskov Substitution Principle

Learning SynchronizationContext, async, and await

Implementing the interface segregation principle

Exploring instancing, concurrency and throttling in WCF

Realize the Open Closed Principle using abstractions

Working with the ServiceStack open source, cross platform Web service framework

Design for change: Coupling and cohesion in object oriented systems

Best practices in using RESTful services

Implementing the Single Responsibility Principle in C#

Exploring routing in Web API

Best practices to improve application performance in ASP.Net

Best practices in ASP.Net MVC

Best practices in optimizing LINQ performance

Best practices in WCF: Security, hosting and error handling guidelines

The factory method and abstract factory design patterns: managing object creation efficiently

Best practices in WCF: Service design and performance guidelines

Exploring the MVC, MVP, and MVVM design patterns

Best practices to improve Entity Framework performance

Best practices in handling concurrency in ADO.net

Visual Studio Code: A fast, lightweight, cross-platform code editor

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