Having solid JavaScript skills is more important than ever in today's web applications, and will continue to grow in importance as more browsers, IDEs, etc..., boast of HTML5 feature support. New … more

What’s a Windows Phone Camp? For those who went to our "Windows Phone Garage" series last year, it’s one of those. For those new to the scene, it’s a free, full day event chocked full of … more

The New York City Code Camp is now in October! This is the NYC developer community's sixth Code Camp! When? October 1, 2011. Check in starts at 7:30 AM. Where?Pace UniversityOne Pace Plaza New York, … more

The process of using F5 to start a debugging session is a ubiquitous practice in .NET development with Visual Studio. Despite that, developers are noticing and employing other methods of testing and … more

Over the course of web history, browser detection, rather than feature detection, has been the de facto way to customize the browsing experience. However, this is an antiquated technique which is … more

While HTML5 promises to be THE future of the web, there's no need to wait - you can have some of that future now. As the W3C Working Groups finalize the HTML5 standards, many browsers are already … more

"When should I use a ViewBag vs. ViewData vs. TempData objects?" -- a frequent question in online forums, during presentations, and at events. There are enough similarities and differences between … more

The concept of the ViewModel isn't just for ASP.NET MVC, as you'll see references to ViewModels throughout the web in articles and blog posts about the MVC, MVP, and MVVM patterns. Those posts and … more

Back in April, my colleagues on the US DPE Cloud team launched the Rock Paper Azure Challenge. The RPA Challenge is a fun way for developers to gain some familiarity with Windows Azure and possibly … more

NYC .NET User Groups

NY Enterprise Windows User Group

NYPC Visual Basic SIG

Long Island .NET Users Group

NYC SharePoint User Group

NYC Connected Systems Group

NYC .NET Developers Group

NY SQL … more

Before the advent of Web Storage, developers have had to juggle between cookies, session, query strings, and HTML forms to manage data across stateless HTTP requests - with cookies being the only … more

During the recent HTML5 Web Camps in New York City, NY and Waltham, MA, fellow developer evangelist Chris Bowen and I delivered HTML5 training.

We covered the next wave of web standards including … more

Some newly released tools for Visual Studio 2010 including Service Pack 1, the MVC 3 Tools update, and the Web Standards Update introduce the first wave of HTML5 support for ASP.NET development, so … more

In light of the recent news about CitiBank's security breach, here are my personal/professional thoughts on the matter. Disclaimer: The content in this post reflects my own opinions and experience, … more

Join Chris Bowen and me at the HTML5 Web Camp to hear all about the next wave of web standards including HTML5, CSS3, SVG, and more!   June 13, 9 AM – 5 PM Microsoft, 201 Jones Road Waltham, … more

Software scaffolding is a technique usually involving code or template generation of CRUD operations, based on a data model. MvcScaffolding is a tool you can use to scaffold your MVC 3 applications … more

If you're building ASP.NET MVC 3 applications, you'll want to know about the MvcScaffolding project on CodePlex. Software scaffolding is a way to template software applications so that you can easily … more

Just about every application uses some sort of data model, and .NET developers have been using POCOs (Plain Old CLR Objects) for some time now. You can use either new or existing POCOs in MVC 3 … more