Make a surveillance application which silently captures desktop and emails you screenshots as attachment periodically

RSS Feed aggregator and blogging Smart Client which uses Enterprise Library, Updater Application Block, lots of XML hacks and desktop tricks. A comprehensive guide to real life hurdles of Smart Client development.

Comprehensive guide to development of .NET 2.0 Smart Clients working with existing Service Oriented Architecture based XML web services, fully utilizing the Enterprise Library

Build a start page similar to Google IG in 7 nights using ASP.NET Ajax, .NET 3.0, Linq, DLinq and XLinq.

Performance tips and hard-core tricks that change core runtimes, not for the faint-hearted

Web 2.0 AJAX Portal built using jQuery, and ASP.NET 3.5. It offers Silverlight widget framework. Middle-tier built on Workflow Foundation. Data Access Layer uses Compiled Linq to SQL. Uses Enterprise Library 4.1 and Unitiy, offering Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control. All hot stuff!

Learn the principle behind Microsoft's new Doloto and 6 other cool techniques that I did in Pageflakes to load large amounts of JavaScript without compromising performance

An extender that allows content to be dragged and dropped within columns and across columns. Allows column-wise content flow and reorganization.

An AJAX Proxy HttpHandler built using ASP.NET that continuously delivers content from external domains to the browser and is thus faster and more scalable than any other proxy service.

A tiny JavaScript library that provides a handy function "ensure" which allows you to load JavaScript, HTML, CSS on-demand and then execute your code. ensure ensures that relevant JavaScript and HTML snippets are already in the browser DOM before executing your code that uses them.

MCMAB's XmlFileStorage has a known bug for which it does not work in Web Applications. When you need to use external XML file for storing configuration, you have to do some tweaking yourself.

Production Architecture for a SaaS web application built using ASP.NET and SQL Server that guarantees 99.99% availability and super performance

Run scheduled jobs 24x7 using ASP.NET without requiring a Windows Service.

Serve extensionless URL from IIS without using custom ISAPI handler or IIS 6.0 wildcard mapping

10 easy ways to make ASP.NET and AJAX websites faster, more scalable and support more traffic at lower cost

Download all external scripts on your Web page after the visible content is loaded for faster perceived speed and donwload multiple JavaScript in batch for better actual speed

An HTTP handler that combines multiple CSS, JavaScript or URL into one response for faster page load. It can combine, compress and cache response which results in faster page load and better scalability of web application

A collection of ExtractionRules, ValidationRules, and Request Plugin that makes ASP.NET and AJAX website testing painless. No need to record tests, write parameterized tests using server-side control names, handle UpdatePanels, simulate clicks on buttons - all from Web Test. Facilitates painless sop

UFrame makes a DIV behave like an IFRAME that can load any ASP.NET/PHP/HTML page and allows all postback and hyperlink navigation to happen within the DIV - a painless way to make regular pages fully AJAX enabled

Implement caching in your project using AspectF library that saves you from writing plumbing code for dealing with cached objects and collections and learn how to handle stale objects and collections.

Make version independent COM wrapper using late bound calls yet providing strongly type and disposable interfaces. A version independent managed Outlook Automation Library.

A handy utility for laptop users which stores network and proxy configuration as profiles and apply a profile very quickly whenever laptop goes to a different network

Convert HTML to XHTML while applying tag and attribute filters in order to produce nice and clean HTML for web posting.

AspectF is a simple way to do Aspect Oriented Programming style coding which makes your code a lot cleaner and more maintainable.

Distributed Command Pattern is a pattern for connected systems which implements command pattern. It frees designers from thinking about the communication and helps them concentrate on implementing commands as if it is a regular desktop application. The framework takes care of the communication.

Powershell scripts allow you to take advantage of .NET libraries and write scripts which are almost as powerful as the .NET code itself.

Learn about 13 production disasters that can bring down your business