Recently I was going through few MSDN magazines and found some really useful articles for .NET developers. Although there are lot of valuable articles in MSDN magazines but I thought to create my own list of Top 10 that I think will be useful to .NET developers.
I have not included very old articles and tried to focus on the not so old ones. So without wasting any further time let's dive into the articles.
- Increase LINQ Query Performance by Jared Parsons- This article talks about the performance issues that may happen when Linq is used to process large data sets. This article creates a demo application in VB.NET and shows how to improve the performance of that application.
- An Overview of Performance Improvements in .NET by Ashwin Kamath- Very nice article on the key performance improvements in .NET 4.5. A developer having good understanding of these new performance improvement features will surely be able to write better optimized code.
- Creating Mobile-Optimized Views in ASP.NET MVC 4 by Dino Esposito - As the number of mobile users are increasing at an exponential pace hence more and more organizations are now focusing on Mobile-first approach. So it is very much essential for a developer to know how mobile optimized applications can be created.
- Single-Page Applications: Build Modern, Responsive Web Apps with ASP.NET by Mike Wasson - This article talks about single page applications that can update itself without loading the page. Sounds interesting, isn't it? Read the full article and learn more about it.
- How C# 6.0 Simplifies, Clarifies and Condenses Your Code by Mark Michaelis - Well this article talks about some of the key features of C# 6.0 like Static using statements, Auto property initializer, Exception handling improvements and so on. You can use C# 6.0 with Visual Studio 2015. Visual Studio 2015 release candidate can be downloaded from Microsoft's site.
- MapReduce Without Hadoop Using the ASP.NET Pipeline by Doug Duerner and Yeon-Chang Wang - Developers who want to add the power of Big Data or Analytics to smart phones or Tablets should not miss this article. This article shows you how you can convert a single node application into a distributed application without any changing the design.
- Build a Cross-Platform, Mobile Golf App Using C# and Xamarin by Wallace B. McClure - In this article, the author shows how to build an app using the back-end options in Windows Azure and shows the code for writing an app for Windows Phone and for iOS using Xamarin.
- Essential Facebook Programming: Building a Windows Client by Dino Esposito - Facebook fans this article is for you. Learn to develop a simple windows client that can post updates and pictures to Facebook. The author has used WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) to build this application.
- Build a Data-Driven Enterprise Web Site in 5 Minutes by James E. Henry - This article provides you a glimpse of how data driven applications have evolved over past few years. With the introduction of ASP.NET dynamic data a production ready data driven application can be created in few minutes.
- The Model-View-Presenter-ViewModel Design Pattern for WPF by Bill Kratochvil - In this article Bill Kratochvil presents a pattern that has been overlooked by many Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) developers because of the popularity of the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. This efficient pattern is called as the Model-View-Presenter-ViewModel (MVPVM) pattern (Originally this was introduced in the Microsoft patterns & practices Prism project).
Hope these articles will help you in learning something new and apply this knowledge in your projects. Please feel free to share this article and to post your comments.
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