On VB columnist Joe Kunk shows you how to create and extract "almost" .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4 and standard .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4.5.
While we often talk of how we can leverage OSS to deliver a higher-quality product, rarely do we talk about how we can give back to the OSS community.
Eric Vogel shows you how to simplify the consumption of your API by adding a fluent interface design.
Persisting user settings in Windows Phone is something every mobile developer needs to know how to do. Nick Randolph walks you through the process.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/08/2012
Peter introduces WCF 4.5's support for WebSockets first by describing why you care and then by setting up to build a bi-directional service using Windows Server 8, and Visual Studio 11.
Talent and great ideas aren't enough. If you want to succeed as an entrepreneur, you gotta have hustle.
- By Patrick Foley
- 05/03/2012
While Windows Communication Foundation 4.5 has lots of little improvements, the ASP.NET Web API is a very big change. You'll probably end up taking advantage of both, so here's what's in the pipeline for you.
Microsoft System Center 2012 is out, and Microsoft .NET Framework developers everywhere are cheering.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 05/01/2012
PowerPoint Storyboarding, a new feature of Visual Studio 11, brings new dimensions to UI design.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 05/01/2012
Time is causing Windows to evolve, but those changes offer new opportunities for app developers.
Visual Studio Magazine Tools Editor Peter Vogel wanted to avoid the raw, uninitialized HTML/HTML5 that users sometimes see in their browsers before JavaScript properly arranges things.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2012
Peter looks at Knockout, one of the MVC environments for writing client-side JavaScript, and wonders if we're on the wrong path.
Team Foundation Server has a variety of ways to queue and execute your builds. Here's what you need to know.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 04/26/2012
The latest Android SDK provides an emulator with improved debugging capabilities. Mono for Android developers will appreciate the upgrades.
- By Wallace McClure
- 04/26/2012
A new column on developing Android apps with the .NET Framework debuts. Here's the reason it exists, and a bit about the authors.
- By Wallace McClure
- 04/25/2012
Nick Randolph continues to look at building applications across both Windows Phone and Windows 8, this time focusing on the navigation model.
- By Nick Randolph
- 04/24/2012
How to implement an undo/redo system using the Command pattern in the .NET Framework.
Visual Basic 11 contains many enhancements you may not have noticed.
Agile processes should encourage your developers to work better -- not be looking over their shoulders.
Migrating a photo-sharing Windows Phone application to run under Windows 8.
- By Nick Randolph
- 04/16/2012