.NET Programming

Developing applications with Node.js and C#

This article discusses Node.js and shows how you can build a TCP Server in Node.js and consume it using C#

May 5, 2015 5 mins

Best Practices in using Dispose and Finalize in .Net

Learn how the GC works and the best practices to cleanup resources occupied by your program to build applications that are better in performance

By Joydip Kanjilal

Apr 28, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

New features in MVC 6

Leverage the ASP.Net MVC 6 framework to design and implement applications that can leverage the Mode View Controller design pattern and promote code re-use, testability and maintenance seamlessly

By Joydip Kanjilal

Apr 23, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

Programming the Object Services Layer in Entity Framework

Take advantage of Object Services Layer to reduce the impedance mismatch between the object and data models in your application and perform CRUD operations against your Entity Data Model

By Joydip Kanjilal

Apr 17, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Take advantage of Unit Testing to reduce errors in the development phase of your project

A proper and planned approach towards test driven development can reduce errors in your application considerably

By Joydip Kanjilal

Apr 16, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

Choosing the right technology for building the service layer in .NET

There are many different considerations you need to think over before you decide the right technology for the service layer in your application

By Joydip Kanjilal

Apr 6, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Asynchronous operations in ADO.Net

Leverage asynchronous programming to eliminate resource intensive blocking operations in your application

By Joydip Kanjilal

Mar 27, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

Exploring Windows Management Instrumentation in C#

Take advantage of WMI to retrieve the hardware details of your computer system

By Joydip Kanjilal

Mar 26, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

Exploring the Singleton design pattern

Take advantage of the Singleton design pattern to create classes that can have only one instance throughout the lifetime of the application

By Joydip Kanjilal

Mar 19, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

Working with memory mapped files in .Net

Take advantage of memory mapped files to boost application performance and facilitate data sharing data between processes

By Joydip Kanjilal

Mar 18, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

Exploring virtual and abstract methods in C#

Take advantage of virtual methods to implement late binding and abstract methods to force the subclasses to have implementations

By Joydip Kanjilal

Mar 11, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

Improving Web API performance

Leverage caching, asynchronous methods, content compression, and faster media type formatters to improve the responsiveness and overall performance of Web API services

By Joydip Kanjilal

Mar 5, 2015 4 mins

Web Development

Exception handling in WCF

Take advantage of fault exceptions in WCF to send user friendly error messages to the service consumer when an exception has occured

By Joydip Kanjilal

Mar 4, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

Exploring the Dynamic Language Runtime in .Net

Take advantages of the Dynamic Language Runtime to promote interoperability between statically and dynamically typed languages

By Joydip Kanjilal

Feb 26, 2015 4 mins

Software Development

A deep dive inside the Task Parallel Library in .Net Framework

Leverage the multiple cores in your system using the Task Parallel Library provided by Microsoft .Net Framework

By Joydip Kanjilal

Feb 25, 2015 5 mins

Software Development

Entity Framework 7: Providing support for new platforms and new data stores

Entity Framework 7, a major redesign of Entity Framework, provides support for non-relational data stores and in-memory data. Also, Windows Phone and Windows Store applications are supported. You can work with Entity Framework 7 on even Linux and Mac....

By Joydip Kanjilal

Feb 19, 2015 4 mins

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