Rackspace Cloud SDK for Microsoft .NET is a tool suite for .NET developers working with the OpenStack cloud OS.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 05/16/2013
Xoreax Software releases version 4.6 of its code-build-acceleration product.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 05/13/2013
Microsoft exec also says Visual Studio 2012 has been downloaded more than 4 million times since its release.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/10/2013
In a Bring Your Own Device (BOYD) world, .NET Framework support for Portable Class Libraries (PCLs) provides a base for writing code that will run on any platform -- provided you understand the limitations of PCLs and how to structure your applications to exploit them.
- By Muhammad Siddiqi
- 05/09/2013
The IComparable interface lets you create objects that know how to sort themselves correctly. This interface also provides an example of a high-level strategy for building and extending your classes.
An overview of the Microsoft .NET Framework application security utilities SN.exe, Dotfuscator and SignTool.exe.
The Open Technologies Group has open sourced ASP.NET, MVC 4, and the Entity Framework, among other technologies.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/01/2013
Your UI could work exactly the way you intended it to work and still fail during usability testing.
Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Ultimate Edition) includes a new tool to help visualize code relationships, and it's worth your time to learn.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 04/26/2013
Things won't happen as quickly for on-premises versions of Office.
Even if you're not working in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, .NET provides you with a way to create a read-only collection or to convert an existing List into a read-only collection.
In the first installment of Practical JavaScript, Peter Vogel describes how a client-side skeptic evolved into a JavaScript fan thanks to several tools and a book. He also shares why he's concerned about TypeScript and where he's going to take this .NET-oriented JavaScript column over the next few months.
Xamarin, which specializes in building tools that let developers build mobile apps in C#, has taken that idea one step further with Xamarin.iOS.
- By Wallace McClure
- 04/19/2013
Microsoft hopes to compete more directly with tablets like the iPad Mini and Kindle Fire.
Peter Vogel compares both of the Microsoft dependency injection managers/inversion of control containers and comes up with a decision tree for picking the correct one.
The Rx library utilizes the power of LINQ to make difficult asynchronous problems simple.
- By Mark Michaelis, Allen Greaves
- 04/10/2013
Can Microsoft successfully straddle the fence between Windows desktop and the mobile app age? And what should you do about it?
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 04/09/2013
Syncfusion Essential Studio for ASP.NET MVC includes more than four-dozen controls, half-a-dozen templates and several utilities, all of them useful. Documentation is lacking, though.
Documenting your code is a critical part of development, but too many developers pay too little attention to proper commenting. C++ devs have a tool that can help.
The framework is built on top of jQuery.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/03/2013