By responding to potential threats with thoughtfulness, and a zeal to add value, SQL and Big Data could be big business for Redmond.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 02/01/2012
JavaScript libraries help you build powerful, data-driven HTML5 apps.
jsFiddle is a free code-sharing tool that allows you to edit, share, execute and debug Web code within a browser.
jqChart for ASP.NET MVC leverages HTML5 to deliver more responsive, scalable charting to the browser -- and throws in an HTML helper for ASP.NET MVC developers.
Readers discuss the December Papa's Perspective column and Andrew Brust's take on the ways Windows 8 will affect Silverlight.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 01/01/2012
Visual Basic development in Visual Studio 11 offers asynchronous methods, iterators, call hierarchy, the Global keyword and Windows 8 Metro-based applications.
Your forms can be built entirely in HTML5, with no JavaScript necessary. Here's how.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 01/01/2012
In addition to adding a new paradigm with Windows 8/Metro, Microsoft has upgraded its core development products; this comprehensive overview takes it all in.
Get started with this quick but informative guide (and sample code) from John Papa.
Crafting a caching strategy is critical to building effective Web apps. It's only possible when you know what options are available and how to integrate them.
Andrew Brust's November Redmond Review column, "Windows 8: Times Are Changing for Developers," got reactions from readers, many of whom are still troubled about what lies ahead.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 12/01/2011
Adobe's about-face appears motivated by the explosion of mobile computing.
A good first impression is critical for an Android app. Learn the principles of Android UI design.
- By Wallace McClure
- 11/01/2011
Microsoft's BUILD announcements about Windows 8 and other technologies are a break from the past.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 11/01/2011
Windows 8 is an early preview, but has enough of its shape to show XAML developers that their skills are applicable.