Category: .NET/Visual Studio

What is Windows Azure Cloud computing is the hottest new technology in IT. Microsoft’s platform for implementing cloud-computing is called Windows Azure. With Windows Azure you rent servers and storage for a low monthly fee. Under the hood, Windows Azure provides virtual machines running Windows 2008 server and Internet Information Services. You can specify how […]

Next week I’m teaching Learning Tree course 2620: .NET 4 Programming for Existing .NET Developers. Maybe the hardest part of that course to understand is lambda expressions. Hopefully, this post will help explain them. Getting Started with Lambda Expressions Let’s say you have the simple class shown below. class Calculator { public static double Add(double […]

Almost all computers today have multiple CPU cores. .NET 4 allows you to easily take advantage of all that computing power, very easily.  One way is to use the Parallel class, which is included in the System.Threading.Tasks namespace. Let’s take a look at an example.  In the method below, all that happens is a number […]

If you enjoy reading our blogs on Project Management, SharePoint or Cloud Computing, you will love our next one covering all the latest on .NET Programming and Visual Studio.  The same insight and expertise that our world-class instructors contribute to those topics will be on full display in this newest entry to our IT and Management blog […]

Behind door # 1; .NET developer eating 800 page manuals for breakfast Behind door #2; power user, business professional Behind door #3; clerical person If you are working in SharePoint and you guessed door #2, you would get top marks because that is the majority of development. Now wait, you say, what about the professional […]