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"A lot of tutorials have already been written about TPL and the new .NET 4.5 async-await features, the most prominent examples are Task Parallel Library: 1 of n, Task Parallel Library: 2 of n, Task Parallel Library: 6 of n and Threading in C#, PART 5: PARALLEL PROGRAMMING. Here I present my own version of a TPL and async-await tutorial trying to emphasize why TPL and async-await functionality is so useful and how to apply it to some well-known problems. "

" Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library. "

Hammock is a .NET CouchDB library modeled directly on NHibernate and strives for much of the same functionality while avoiding the vast complexity of mapping object data to a relational system.

"The Microsoft Ajax Content Delivery Network (CDN) enables you to easily add popular JavaScript libraries such as jQuery to your Web applications. For example, you can start using jQuery simply by adding a

TweetSharp is a Twitter API library that greatly simplifies the task of adding Twitter to your desktop, web, and mobile applications. 

"What social authentication solutions are available for .NET developers? What are their features? These are questions I was looking to get answered. I've provided my findings in this article, which focuses primarily on active solutions, that have compatibility with ASP.NET MVC. I've listed four solutions: a direct DotNetOpenAuth implementation example (several exist), SimpleSocialAuth, SocialAuth.NET, and a third-party, API-based solution called Janrain Engage."

"Joda Time is the industry standard date and time handling library for Java. Noda Time is an idiomatic port to the .NET platform. "

" Castle DynamicProxy is a library for generating lightweight .NET proxies on the fly at runtime. Proxy objects allow calls to members of an object to be intercepted without modifying the code of the class. Both classes and interfaces can be proxied, however only virtual members can be intercepted. "

"Unity 1.2 is about to be released anytime now, and one of the exciting new features is that the core interception technology from the Policy Injection Application Block has been moved to Unity. This allows one to do AOP with Unity without the need for Enterprise Library and the Policy Injection Application Block."

"NuGet (recently renamed from NuPack) is a free open source developer focused package manager intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development. "

"Quartz.NET is a port of very propular open source Java job scheduling framework, Quartz . This project owes very much to original Java project, it's father James House and the project contributors. Quartz.NET is a pure .NET library written in C# which currently targets Framework version 1.1 and above. Quartz.NET is feature-wise equal to Quartz Java 1.6 excluding Java specifics. Quartz.NET is already running in production systems and has received good feedback. "

"Raphael JS is a lightweight and super-sexy JavaScript framework that allows you to draw vector graphics in your browser! In this tutorial, I will introduce you to some basic drawing functionality, take a look at animation, provide DOM access and finally finish off by creating a cool widget for your site…"

jLinq is a 100% JavaScript library that allows you to perform complex queries on arrays of JSON data.

Modernizr is an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites.

"Returns information from, or expressions based on, each row affected by an INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, or MERGE statement. These results can be returned to the processing application for use in such things as confirmation messages, archiving, and other such application requirements. The results can also be inserted into a table or table variable. Additionally, you can capture the results of an OUTPUT clause in a nested INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, or MERGE statement, and insert those results into a target table or view."

"This topic describes patterns that you can use to load related entities. Entity types can define navigation properties that represent associations in the data model. You can use these properties to load entities that are related to the returned entity by the defined association. When entities are generated based on the data model, navigation properties are generated for entities at both ends of an association. These navigation properties return either a reference on the "one" end of a one-to-one or many-to-one relationship or a collection on the "many" end of a one-to-many or many-to-many relationship. For more information, see Navigation Properties and Defining and Managing Relationships. "

"SQL Server 2008 introduces two tracking features that enable applications to determine the DML changes (insert, update, and delete operations) that were made to user tables in a database. Before these features were available, custom tracking mechanisms had to be implemented in applications. These custom mechanisms often required schema changes to the tracked table or the use of triggers. Neither change data capture nor change tracking requires any schema changes at the source or the use of triggers."

Thread-safe collection classes in .Net 4

"The tablediff utility is used to compare the data in two tables for non-convergence, and is particularly useful for troubleshooting non-convergence in a replication topology. This utility can be used from the command prompt or in a batch file to perform the following tasks:"