There are so many handy tools that we use in our day to day life to simplify our work. This article will list some of the useful tools that a webdeveloper should be aware.

Beginning Silverlight Development,Microsoft introduced Rich Internet Application with the introduction of Silverlight which is a very lightweight and a client-side application.

Beginning ASP.NET MVC Framework – PART II,ASP.NET MVC, Microsoft launched framework to build Model View Controller applications for ASP.NET.MVC is a standard design pattern that many developers are familiar with. Some types of Web applications will benefit from the MVC framework.

Beginning ASP.NET MVC Framework – PART I,ASP.NET MVC, Microsoft launched framework to build Model View Controller applications for ASP.NET.MVC is a standard design pattern that many developers are familiar with. Some types of Web applications will benefit from the MVC framework.

Do you have a high traffic site where you have a lot of WMV/AVI/FLV/PDF documents (or any other MIME type) where your maximum bandwidth of the site is utilized? Do you ever think where majority of the bandwidth would go?

If you select Log File format as “Custom” in the IIS manager, it doesn’t give you options to configure ODBC logging in the UI.In this article I will explain how to configure IIS7.0 site for ODBC logging.

You might see that there is no UI way to take backup, restore backup. Only available way (till Windows 2008 Server RC0) is by the AppCmd tool.Read more here.

Thought of posting this entry which would give some changes that are in IIS7 compared to IIS6, and also few new stuffs introduced in IIS7.

There will be requirements where we need to import the content of a DataTable object to a table in SQL server. Normally, we will do this by forming separate insert query for each data row in DataTable and firing it over the SQL server using ADO.Net.

Lazy loading is a technique, pattern where a data is loaded only ondemand or only when it is required in order to increase the program efficiency, performance, etc.

LINQ to SQL is new component that is released with .NetFramework 3.5. LINQ to SQL provides a way where a developer can manage a relational database object as a .net object. In simple terms, it is an ORM (Object-relational mapping) that is used to manage a back end object as a front end object in object oriented way i.e. relational to object oriented type system.

With .NET 4.0, the CLR supports covariance and contravariance of types in generic interfaces and delegates. Before dwelling into these new changes, let us get a quick view on the concept of variances in simple terms. Read more.