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In this post, we will look at some of the new features of Visual Studio 2012’s IDE. Dark Color Theme for Code Editor and IDE window: Visual Studio 2012 provides out of the box option to have a White on Black color scheme, Dark AKA  White on Black  color schemes have become choice of many developers as many have realized that they are easy on the eyes. Quick Launch - Search the VS commands / menu options: Seems Visual Studio has more than  4000 commands , apart from the frequently used commands, it wouldn't be practical to remember most of the commands, hence Visual Studio 2012 has a cool feature called  Quick Launch - Ctrl+Q  located in the top right corner in the Visual Studio 2012 IDE.  You can start typing few letters of the command you are looking for and Quick Launch will provide auto-suggest with commands that starts with the letters you have typed.  It shows the shortcut keys for each command which is pretty neat. P...

The world wide web and the Internet started as a stateless content delivery mechanism, taking a step backwards compared to traditional desktop applications. Early Internet applications needed to explicitly request every piece of information, and the server sent only the requested data. Then came what we now call “Web 2.0 application development”: Dynamic HTML, heavy usage of JavaScript, AJAX, and various plugins (Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight). These applications were dynamic and responsive, and they brought much of that rich interactive experience users enjoyed in desktop client/server applications to the Internet. However, due to the request and response architecture that these applications are based on, the latest Rich Internet Applications still cannot match the connectivity and the capability to get real-time data that client/server applications had more than a decade ago. The reason is that these applications still need to initiate the communication from the web...

The focus of ASP.NET 4.0 has mainly been on improving the performance and Search-engine Optimization (SEO). In this article, we'll be taking a look at the most important new features in ASP.NET 4.0. 1.     Output cache extensibility 2.     Session state compression 3.     View state mode for individual control 4.     Page.MetaKeyword  and  Page.MetaDescription  properties 5.     Response.RedirectPermanent  method 6.     Routing in ASP.NET 7.     Increase the URL character length 8.     New syntax for Html Encode 9.     Predictable Client IDs 10.   Web.config  file refactoring 11.   Auto-Start ASP.NET applications 12.   Improvements on Microsoft Ajax Library Output Cache extensibility Output caching, or Page-Level Caching, caches the entire rendered markup of an ASP.NET web page...