Microsoft's new logo has aspects of both the future and the past.
Eric Vogel covers how to use the Windows 8 local data storage APIs to cache application data.
IntelliTrace can only be used in development environments in Visual Studio 2010 but that changes in the upcoming IDE. Learn how to use the new IntelliTrace in Production features in the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 02/07/2012
The next generation of Microsoft's smartphone could make Windows Phone apps interoperable with Windows 8 tablet apps and Windows 8 PC apps
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/03/2012
The Kinect for Windows SDK includes drivers for Windows 7, Windows Embedded Standard 7 and Windows 8 developer preview desktop apps.
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
Team Explorer in TFS 11 has added a "My Work" page to review active work items, track changes and work with the Code Review process.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 01/19/2012
Iterators are available for Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2010. In Part 2 of a series, Joe Kunk discusses Visual Basic iterator syntax, demonstrates how iterators are coded, and compares Visual Basic iterators to C# iterators.
Eric Vogel walks through a soup-to-nuts demo for building a Metro-style RSS reader.
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
As the market becomes more diffuse, its practitioners and participants must cope and adapt.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 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.
Windows 8 faces significant hurdles when it's released, if Microsoft doesn't refine its mobile strategy.
Various sources are reporting January or February dates for the beta, with possible release unlikely until 2013.
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.