As more and more multi-threaded software applications get developed, software development professionals need to adopt new tools, techniques and metrics that can deal with multi-threaded software. Synchronization coverage is a simple, practical way to do this and this article covers a prototype synchronization coverage tool for .NET, called Sync Cover.

The Web Pages page-centric programming model supported by WebMatrix is a great way to get Web apps up and running. If you later decide that embracing ASP.NET MVC would give you more flexibility, you're covered. We’ll explain why you might choose to migrate and show you how to do it.

The article will demonstrate the benefits of having a consistent approach to navigation and data passing in a Web Forms application, showing how this bears fruit when building Single-Page Interfaces.

This is part 3 of a six-part series of articles on N-Layer design. In this installment I'll dig deeper into the Validation Framework I introduced in part 2 and show you how to write your own validation behavior in your business entities and how to set up your application for localization so you can target users in multiple languages.

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.

We walk through parts of the Windows Azure application development lifecycle using Visual Studio and highlight the new features as we progress.

This article describes how to simplify web application development using Flex, Flash Builder, WebORB, and NHibernate, an open source object-relational mapper for the .NET framework.

To better understand how SOA patterns can be applied to Windows Azure deployments, we walk you through a scenario in which a bank moves its services to the cloud.

This article explores ways to combine Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and the Inversion of Control (IoC) container Castle Windsor to decouple Views and ViewModels within Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) to make unit testing easy and painless.

Learn the reasons for using the Managed Extensibility Framework, and how convention-driven configuration can streamline the development process.