Cutting Edge: Binary Serialization of ADO.NET Objects

The ADO. NET DataSet object plays an essential role in most of today's distributed, multitiered applications. Instances of the DataSet class are used to move data across the tiers and to exchange data with external services.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine October 2004

The .NET Framework 4 introduces some new features that enable you to go beyond static types. We explore dynamically expando objects and demonstrate how they can be used like dynamically updatable dictionary objects.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine July 2010

After a brief refresher on procedural and object based patterns for organizing the business logic layer, the author focuses on data transfer objects and the impact they have on the development of the software project.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine August 2009

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine December 2001

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine November 2001

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine January 2001

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine November 2000

Being lazy in software development can be a good thing, but until the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, coders had to implement lazy behavior themselves. Dino Esposito shows how to use the new Lazy class to maximize your resources.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine August 2010

Are you a Microsoft .NET Framework programmer who struggles with critical legacy applications using COM objects that are beyond your control? Dino Esposito shows how to lessen the burden by going dynamic.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine June 2010

C# 4 provide a new dynamic keyword that enables dynamic typing in what has traditionally been a strongly typed language. We explain how the dynamic keyword works and what it offers that casting, var, and System.Object cant' match.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine May 2010

If you need to scale up an existing Web application, you should first look to asynchronous operations, says Dino Esposito. He explains how new features coming in ASP.NET MVC 2 make this easier.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine April 2010

This month Dino takes a look at the JavaScript components coming in the ASP.NET Ajax Library and explains how they can be used for effective client-side data access.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine March 2010

Dino Esposito builds upon his exploration of new data binding features coming in the ASP.NET Ajax Library, explaining how to implement the predictive fetch design pattern.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine February 2010

When you think of data-driven Web pages, most of the time what you really have in mind is a master-detail view of some cross-related data. Dino builds an example with ASP.NET AJAX 4 and jQuery.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine January 2010

Dino Esposito discusses various forms of client-side data binding as they are coming out in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, focusing on some advanced features of data binding and observable objects.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine December 2009

Last month, Dino covered the basics of the new DataView client control and the binding techniques most commonly used. In this article, he goes one step further and covers conditional template rendering.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine November 2009

In this article, Dino reviews the pillars of real-world AJAX development as supported in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0. In doing so, he mostly focuses on client-side templates and data-binding but doesn't ignore other goodies, such as ADO.NET Data Services proxy classes and programming facilities.

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine October 2009