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"Because frameworks are so good at making decisions for us, we get lazy. Instead of thinking hard about how to build a clean system with crisp abstractions, we think about what the framework would want us to do, regardless of whether the resulting code is clean."

Today, we are happy to announce the availability of Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012. You can develop apps that will take advantage of all the great features that we have added, including new features in Windows 8. We are also announcing the availability of the .NET Framework 4.5 reference source code, under the Microsoft Reference Source License (MS-RSL).

If you are using the Entity Framework (EF), then you need to understand the best practices for improving its performance, or you will suffer the consequences!

"The migrations feature of the Entity Framework includes a Seed method where you can populate the database with the initial static data an application needs."

"This article will introduce you to hooking into the EntityFramework OnSaveChanges event which is buried deep in the framework. It'll also explain how you can extract the T-SQL which is actually committed when SaveChanges is called."

In this article, you will see creating a plugin is almost exactly same as create a regular ASP.NET MVC web application, it only need to create a plugin manifest file for each plugin.

TechEd Europe 2012: a whirlwind overview of the many new features in the upcoming release of the .NET framework.

But there is another technological shift conspiring against many web frameworks that isn't focused on performance, but instead focused on "ease of use" - which in many cases may hit far closer to home.  That shift is the reorganization of MVC. 

"It is common for a single parent entity to be related to many child entities. This relationship may be required or optional. A  required relationship means that the child cannot exist without a parent, and if the parent is deleted or the relationship between the child and the parent is severed, then the child becomes orphaned. In such situations it is often useful to have the orphaned child automatically deleted."

"Dependencies are nearly unavoidable for non-trivial software projects. These can be large dependencies, such as web frameworks and databases, or smaller decisions, such as pagination helpers or simple math libraries. The inevitable inclusion of these dependencies, however, is not an excuse to shape the solutions of your system around what you do not own. Instead, there ought to be an emphasis on finding the right fit and then owning the way dependencies interface with your system."

"This is the first of a two-part series that will tell the long story of the C# memory model. The first part explains the guarantees the C# memory model makes and shows the code patterns that motivate the guarantees; the second part will detail how the guarantees are achieved on different hardware architectures in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5."

TechEd Europe 2012: one of the best talks of the conference. If you love coding, you will love this talk about dealing with streams of events using the Reactive Extensions framework.

TechEd Europe 2012: LightSwitch is an application framework from Microsoft that takes much of the repetitive code you write in a typical application out of your hands. Very impressive. It comes with a Silverlight and a HTML5 client.

The Microsoft .NET platform, originally introduced in 2002, is mature and it provides developers with great options for creating software that can meet the requirements of any project. With many options, though, it can be difficult for today's .NET developer to choose the correct .NET technologies for a project. Addressing this problem, Telerik has assembled its senior technical leaders to produce the Microsoft Platform Guidance 2012. This document attempts to provide prescriptive guidance for .NET developers trying to determine the best .NET technologies to use for specific software challenges.

"The EF 4.1 DbContext API works with Code First, Database First, and Model First and provides a simplified, productive environment for building all types of data-backed applications"

"Asynchrony is essential  for scalability and performance on the server side. Although it has always been possible to write asynchronous code, there has, up to now, been a downside: it is difficult to understand and maintain. Now, with the async/await. keywords, the whole approach is radically simplified for the programmer."