Learn how Command Query Responsibility Segregation represents a shift from more classic, three-tier application architecture toward a message-based, asynchronous pattern. We walk you through a reservation booking app to demonstrate how CQRS lends itself to Windows Azure development.

ADO.NET Data Services provide Web-accessible endpoints that allow you to filter, sort, shape, and page data without having to build that functionality yourself.

When downloading and installing the ASP.NET MVC framework SDK, a new project template is installed in Visual Studio—the ASP.NET MVC project template. This article by Maarten Balliauw describes how to use this template. We will briefly touch all aspects of ASP.NET MVC by creating a new ASP.NET MVC web application based on this Visual Studio template. Besides view, controller, and model, new concepts including ViewData—a means of transferring data between controller and view, routing—the link between a web browser URL and a specific action method inside a controller, and unit testing of a controller are also illustrated in this article.

Stephen Walther builds an entire ASP.NET MVC application from start to finish. This tutorial is a great introduction for people who are new to the ASP.NET MVC Framework and who want to get a sense of the process of building an ASP.NET MVC application.

Input controls are essential in any application, but they're especially critical when your Web application is the face of your organization. These controls can be the primary measure by which users judge your application and even your credibility.

In this two-part series, I'll focus on the input capabilities of ASP.NET 3.5, but most of the information I'll cover is also applicable to ASP.NET 2.0 with ASP.NET AJAX Extensions installed. I'll discuss how to enhance ASP.NET input controls using some of the JavaScript-powered behaviors available in the AJAX Control Toolkit, which I'll refer to here as ACT. This month I'll cover the basic set of ACT input extensions; next month I'll delve into more advanced features.

Learn how to create and install custom test project templates and view engine options in the Visual Studio Unit Test framework.

Tables are common in iPhone apps, but are very specific given the iPhone's constraints. However, Apple offers easy customization, and this article explores creating highly customized iPhone tables.

In this article, Dino reviews the pillars of real-world AJAX development as supported in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0. In doing so, he mostly focuses on client-side templates and data-binding but doesn’t ignore other goodies, such as ADO.NET Data Services proxy classes and programming facilities.

The ability to debug code is a skill that every developer should have in their arsenal regardless of the technology they’re using. While many developers are accustomed to using Visual Studio .NET or Web Developer Express to debug ASP.NET applications that use VB.NET or C# code, some aren’t aware that it’s also extremely useful for debugging client-side code such as JavaScript. The same type of techniques used to debug .NET applications can also be applied to AJAX-enabled applications and more specifically ASP.NET AJAX applications.

Find out how to use finalizers as a way to warn developers who use your custom types when they are garbage collected without having been disposed of correctly.