A connection to a database is a resource intensive operation that typically comprises a few steps. A channel of communication between the application and the database should be established before the ...

Asynchronous programming helps you to improve the overall performance and responsiveness of your application. In this article we will explore the basics of asynchronous programming and write code to ...

What is the best way to keep the connection string for a database connection in a central (change it only in one place to change everywhere) location?

The .NET 4.5 Framework introduced the new async/await asynchronous programming model. With ASP.NET MVC 4 comes the application of the async/await model to controller actions. A traditional ASP.NET MVC ...

Eric Vogel's articles on authentication (here and here) in ASP.NET Core show what you have to do in order to authenticate a user against a local database. At the end of that process, you're ready to ...