Asynchronous programming allows you to write programs that don’t block on each statement or instruction, meaning the computer can move on to other tasks before waiting for previous tasks to finish. As ...

Building a web application using non blocking calls to the data layer is a great way to increase the scalability of your system. Performing a task asynchronously frees up the worker thread to accept ...

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Taking advantage of .NET generics can save you loads of repetitive data access leg work. Since it’s likely that each of your data tables will require the same basic operations (Get, Find, Add, Update, ...

Take advantage of the async methods in Dapper to improve the scalability and performance of your ASP.NET Core applications. Dapper is an easy to use, lightweight, flexible, fast, and open source ...

OK, I know this could cause me some problems but here goes, we have a data entry application that I am migrating from Access to VB.Net. In Access the person that made it went to great pains to have ...

Mobilize.net recently upgraded its Visual Basic migration tool, Visual Basic Upgrade Companion, to support Visual Studio 2017. VBUC 7.2, according to the company, provides 100-percent Visual Basic 6.0 ...

I'm new to the whole .NET thing and I'm attempting to exercise my brain by coding up a little app that'll keep X days of backups available... Anyway, I'm stuck at copying everything from source to the ...