Workflows make it easy to do something that's very hard to do in any other development environment: Take action when something doesn't happen. Here's how to protect yourself when something's isn't happening in your Windows Workflows.
Eric Vogel shows you how to use the CultureInfo API in .NET Framework 4.5 to simplify localization in a multi-threaded application.
Google has a set of libraries that allow older versions of Android to get support for newer APIs. Mono for Android provides full support.
- By Wallace McClure
- 01/08/2013
Not only does backlog management impact product architecture, but full adoption of Experience Leveling can also enable faster time-to-production, higher quality, and better user experience.
Although Windows 8 and Windows Phone share the same core, building an app for both isn't as easy as you might think.
- By Nick Randolph
- 01/05/2013
There's a well understood UI design process that you can use to get to the "right" UI for your application. And it starts by inventing people.
Nick Randolph dissects Windows Phone 8 as a platform for application and enterprise developers.
- By Nick Randolph
- 01/04/2013
Part 1 of this article introduced four new T-SQL functions available in SQL Server 2012. Part 2 has the rest.
Creating connectable Web Parts is a good thing for you and your users -- and the default interfaces that come with SharePoint form the architecture you should use to create those Web Parts.
What's next on the data frontier? Microsoft will take us into the world of in-memory transactional databases and big data. And if you know how to write code and queries against SQL Server, then you already have the necessary skills to play there.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 01/02/2013
The latest version of SQL Server expands its capabilities. Here are four new things developers can do with it.
We rounded up readers' development misadventures for the December 2012 cover story, "Dev Disasters -- Why They Happen, How to Overcome Them".
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 01/01/2013
What Redmond needs to do in the new year to build on the momentum of the raft of 2012 product releases.
Eric Vogel covers how to use the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to extend a Windows Store application.
How can Agile teams put price tags on features? Gregg Boer covers two methods that teams can use to estimate costs.
Diego Dagum provides an overview of C++ templates, and how its generics differ from C# and Java.
Peter returns to creating a provider WebPart, but this time passes SharePoint list data from one WebPart to another.
Learn how to use the Fragments API in Mono for Android to create an application UI for multiple screens, such as a handset and tablet.
- By Wallace McClure
- 12/13/2012
A free tool to reduce coding for developers who like to surface T-SQL database recordsets in a simple collection of customized POCO objects.
The IWebPartParameters interface provides a flexible way for one WebPart to select the data it wants from another WebPart. And, since implementing that interface doesn't require much code, you should consider using it on all your WebParts.