NetAdvantage for Windows UI offers XAML and HTML/jQuery controls to Windows 8 developers.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/16/2012
Peter finishes up his discussion of using the Fakes Framework with TDD in Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate by looking at mocking properties and why you'd want to pass a shim as parameters.
Using shims in Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate lets you easily bypass code—no matter how deeply buried—to test just the parts of your application that you want to test.
A new feature in TFS 2012, Local Workspaces allows edits, renames and deletes to be done locally without any communication to the server.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 11/02/2012
TypeScript is designed to make JavaScript development scalable, something Microsoft clearly needs if it's to use JavaScript in its own work.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 11/01/2012
We're almost at the end of 2012, and it's been an amazing year for Microsoft product releases.
The collaboration tool had been in preview mode for a year.
Upgrades to the development suite include CoreCLR and async programming.
Microsoft released the Windows Phone 8 developer tools on Tuesday as the company welcomed developers to its Redmond campus to dive deeper into its Windows 8 development platforms.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/31/2012
In Part 2 of this series, Eric Vogel covers how to implement authentication and basic authorization with an Azure Mobile Service-backed Windows Store application.
One of the major reasons that developers don't like TDD is because, inevitably, it leads to mocking—which can be time consuming. Microsoft has created the Fakes Framework just to simplify the whole process.
Learn about Android's sensors by building a simple compass application.
- By Wallace McClure
- 10/18/2012
Microsoft has three goals for the latest iteration of its flagship IDE.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/15/2012
Update 1 is part of Microsoft’s new strategy of offering "continuous value" on a quarterly basis, in addition to Service Packs. The company released the final CTP on Monday.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/10/2012
TypeScript has been released under the Apache 2.0 license.