Infragistics Blog - How To

I often get questions about the Extension Method in C#. The Extension Method was introduced in C# Version 3.0. and allows us to add functionalities in an existing class without modifying it, extending it, or re-compiling it.

Coined by Ward Cunningham, the term introduces the idea that taking shortcuts in your software today not only means paying the price eventually -- it means paying that price with interest.  In other words, introducing that global variable today and saving half a day's work ahead of shipping means that you're going to pay for it with more than half a day's labor down the line.

Security is one of the most important aspects of any application – and when we talk about security, particularly in ASP.NET applications, it is not limited to development.

A typical software developer’s day includes anything from writing and coding new programs to resolving bugs and attending meetings with clients.

If you're unfamiliar with IRC (Internet Relay Chat) it is an application layer protocol used to facilitate chat with users all over the globe and has been around since the late 1980s and is still widely used to this day.

The idea of using a honeypot to learn about potential attackers came to me while chatting with a friend that had exposed his SSH port to log into while away from home.

This post is in continuation of my previous post where we discussed the needs, basics, configurations and transport mechanism of SignalR. In this post we will take this a step further by creating a sample application and analyze it further.

The Repository Pattern is one of the most popular patterns to create an enterprise level application. It restricts us to work directly with the data in the application and creates new layers for database operations, business logic, and the application’s UI.

In ASP.NET MVC, Filters are used to inject logic at different levels of request processing and allow us to share logics across Controllers. Learn more.