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How to use a template selector to dynamically select which item template to use for each list item.
08/06/2012
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By Sam Nasr
Secondary Live Tiles enable an application to utilize both sides of a tile, delivering twice the information.
08/06/2012
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By Michael Crump
FlipView, ListView and GridView are new controls for Windows 8 Metro-style applications. They'll become key tools for building great-looking UIs.
08/03/2012
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If your app requires the creation and manipulation of combinations of objects, the BigInteger structure in the Microsoft .NET Framework can offer huge advantages to combination functions.
08/01/2012
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See how lambda expressions enhance a common programming scenario.
08/01/2012
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Windows Presentation Foundation with Prism and Unity makes assembling applications at runtime from loosely coupled Modules easy -- provided you don't have competing Modules and don't need to communicate between them. Here's how to solve those two problems.
08/01/2012
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Learn how to automate the WebBrowser control to display and customize the way Web content appears in your Windows Phone application.
08/01/2012
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How to use lock screen badge and tile notifications in your Windows 8 application.
07/29/2012
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There are two strategies that you can follow in pulling together the modules that make up your WPF composable application: Central Control and Distributed Control. Here’s how to implement both of them.
07/23/2012
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How to disable Expression Blend design time data at runtime.
07/23/2012
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By Sam Nasr
Live Tiles are images that update a pinned tile (icon) on the start screen of Windows Phone. They're used to offer updates to a user browsing the start screen, without having to open the application completely.
07/21/2012
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How to separate complex object construction from its representation using the Builder design pattern in C#.
07/16/2012
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C++ does things differently than C# or Visual Basic, especially when it comes to class construction. Take this tour to learn about the differences.
07/12/2012
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WPF with Prism and Unity allow you to create loosely-coupled applications that assemble themselves at run time. Here's how Prism and Unity allow you to dynamically integrate business logic into your application.
07/10/2012
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There's no way to tell just by looking at a list whether the list supports multiple or single selections.
07/09/2012
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If you're building Windows Presentation Foundation applications that will change over time or have some combination of complex workflows, rich user interaction, and significant presentation or business logic, Microsoft recommends that you add Prism and Unity to your toolkit. That's good advice.
07/01/2012
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Microsoft has cooked up a feast of value-added big data cloud apps featuring Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive and Pig, as well as free apps and utilities for numerical analysis, publishing data sets, data encryption, uploading files to SQL Azure and blobs.
07/01/2012
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Accessing a customer relationship management system with a custom .NET application can add important functionality.
06/30/2012
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How to schedule live tile and badge updates in a Windows 8 application.
06/25/2012
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When it comes to comparing objects, what .NET considers the same isn't what normal human beings consider the same.
06/25/2012
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Peter pays a final visit to the WCF 4.5 WebSockets implementation to take advantage of the WebSocketService class and build a service in six lines of code (not counting configuration and client-side code, of course).
06/22/2012
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Batched Gated Builds in Visual Studio 2012 TFS improves on the concept of gated builds by allowing you to specify a build definition to build more than one queued build at a time.
06/13/2012
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By Sam Nasr
ASP.NET Web API allows you to write a service once and provide different output formats with little effort on the developer's side.
06/13/2012
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When most people think of location, they assume this information comes from a GPS module. While this is true, Windows Phone also has support for determining location based on cell tower location and WiFi networks.
06/11/2012
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Create a JavaScript client that works with a WCF 4.5 WebSockets service to receive continuous, ongoing updates from the service.
06/07/2012