Every technologist has his favourite list of developer tools, applications and OS which they believe are indispensible and without them they would not be able to develop anything. With time and changing focus, this list keeps changing. Here’s my list of tools that I think you as a developer should have on your laptop.

Keeping dependencies in your source control

MongoDB is a popular NoSQL database that makes it a great backend for Web APIs which lend themselves towards a document store rather than a relational store. In this blog we show how you can use MongoDB with ASP.NET Web API to build an ApiController with support for HTTP GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE. Our sample controller is a simple contact manager Web API which builds on many of the same concepts as in the tutorial

Every technologist has his favourite list of developer tools, applications and OS which they believe are indispensible and without them they would not be able to develop anything. With time and changing focus, this list keeps changing. But today, this is a list a .NET developer should have!

Thinking about moving from C# to C++, or maybe the other way round? If the latter, you're about ten years behind the times -- or just really hard core. But if the former, you're adventurous, you will soon gain new powers, and you're in luck: because Michael McLaughlin's new guide walks you through the transition painlessly. Or if you just want to compare the two language-cousins, check out an excellent checklist and active discussion on differences, advantages, and disadvantages of C# vs. C++.

In previous articles, Ayende Rahien argued against excessive use of abstractions in .NET applications (or anywhere, really). The reason, in a nutshell: abstraction reduces transparency. Too much infrastructure means that you can't tell what a piece of code is, simply by knowing what it is doing. In this follow-up, he walks through an actual refactoring, explaining in detail how to flatten the architecture of an overly-abstracted app.

Learn how easy it is to use a build framework such as MSBuild or TeamCity to build .NET software. This article also demonstrates how to add Continuous Integration (CI) with .NET applications to an Agile ALM CI ecosystem that can also integrate other artifact types, such as Java.

ASP.NET MVC 4 is a significant release shipping later this year that brings with it some exciting new capabilities. Learn about the new Web API support it enables, great new features for building mobile and HTML5 applications, async language integration, web sockets, and more.

Coupling in object-oriented software indicates the level to which classes are reliant upon each other. A tightly coupled system is usually harder to maintain and modify than a loosely coupled one. The Law of Demeter addresses a specific coupling problem.

Populate a listview widget dynamically with an ajax call. In this way you can build jquery mobile dynamic pages with knockoutjs and the MVVM pattern.

In this way you can create a MVC jquery knockoutjs grid with paging, filter and sort functions. If you set the plugin property "tknockoutValidation=true" , you can use the mvc3 jquery validation.

“No Guests PLEASE!” “Doesn’t your Indian tradition suggests to welcome guests and treat them best.” “Yes, but I am talking about Guest user in SQL Server.” “Oh!”

Recently we added a really nice feature, boosting the results while indexing.

This post is part of ASP .NET MVC 4 Article Series. Yesterday Microsoft announced ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta released on the road to ASP.NET MVC 4. Beta release included some great new feature in addition to ASP.NET MVC 4 developer preview. Here we will take quick overview of whats new included in ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta release. Software Requirements and Installation The ASP.NET MVC 4 beta requires PowerShell 2.0 and Visual Studio 2010 with SP 1 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010 with SP 1. Before installing ...

Developing a window based login form in C Sharp .Net is a little different from what we have done for VB.Net and Vb6,Here you do not have built in login form so you have to design a simple login form with two text boxes, labels and command buttons.Following screen shot will show you a simple layout

Are you tired of fighting with overly complex ORMs such as Entity Framework and NHibernate? Are you tired of poorly generated SQL or having to change your business objects to work with your ORM? Do you miss the power and performance of ADO.NET and SQL, but not the manual tedious work? If so FluentData might be the framework for you. FluentData is a Micro ORM that makes it simple to select, insert, update and delete data in a database. It gives the developer the power of ADO.NET but with the convenience of an ORM. It has a simple to use fluent API that uses SQL - the best and most suitable language to query data, and SQL or fluent builders to insert, update and delete data.