There's one feature of Entity Framework (EF) 6 that's only available in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 or later: asynchronous processing. In this column, I'm going to look at some typical scenarios ...

How to Use .NET Class Library in Excel VBA. Your business's software developers can work with Microsoft's .NET framework to create powerful Excel macros for your spreadsheets.

How can one class communicate with each another, yet know nothing about that other class? That's where the mediator pattern comes in, and Eric shows how to employ it in a .NET chat application.