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MonoDroid will allow .NET programmers to create apps for the Android platform. Sign up for the beta test now.
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One of nice features of ASP.NET MVC 3 is support for multiple view engines. There will be two out-of-box view engines: one for classic ASPX-based views and one for Razor-based views. In this posting I will show you this new feature and demonstrate how to use different view engine in same project.. [...]
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I am embarking in a series of mini post called .NET hidden gems, not necessarily new bits but usually unknown. They are dedicated to those small features and components that are not commonly used but can deliver interesting value in certain scenarios.. [...]
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Here’s a simple technique you can use to easily eliminate duplicate code. Try not to let the word “delegates” scare you away from learning the technique and I’ll try to refrain from using the word “delegate” as much as possible. I’ll start small and then work my way towards a more complex example that [...]

Measurement is the most central concept in any performance-related activity. If you are not measuring you are blind. As important as measuring per se is collecting the right measurements. Which metrics are the right ones depends on what you want to do. However there are some general principles which – when followed – can make [...]

Novell announces upcoming MonoTouch port for Android devices, limited preview open now, full release coming soon.
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In this final installment we’ll take a look at some additional examples of problems caused by distributed transactions.
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One of the great features of jQuery extensibility is the ability to create custom selectors. This is how the jQuery Sizzle selector engine is able to extend the core CSS selector rules to allow some pretty slick, tight selectors. For example ‘:text’ can be used to return an array of all input with a type=text [...]

When we are looking to optimize the performance of web applications we should keep in mind about Memory Load, Processor Load and Network Bandwidth. Here are 50 best practices to improve the performance and scalability of ASP.NET applications.
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You’ve probably read quite a lot of articles on the new mobile operating system (and the devices for it) from Microsoft – Windows Phone 7. Yesterday, some of the Microsoft employees already received the devices on their hands and Tim Heuer (Product Manager for Silverlight at Microsoft) broadcasted the unboxing experience via a live stream, [...]