Asynchronous programming helps you to improve the overall performance and responsiveness of your application. In this article we will explore the basics of asynchronous programming and write code to ...

What is the best way to keep the connection string for a database connection in a central (change it only in one place to change everywhere) location?

Leverage ADO.Net's ability to work in disconnected mode to enable your application to stay disconnected to the database, conserve the system resources, and reduce the network traffic Microsoft’s ...

The .NET 4.5 Framework introduced the new async/await asynchronous programming model. With ASP.NET MVC 4 comes the application of the async/await model to controller actions. A traditional ASP.NET MVC ...

Developers have seen quite a bit of success using Microsoft's .NET Framework for well over 15 years, with countless business-critical apps running on older versions of the Framework and older versions ...

General question:<BR>We recently switched one of our applications to Application Role security, which mandates (because the backend is SQL2000) that we turn off .NET Connection pooling for the sql ...