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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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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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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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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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How to use lock screen badge and tile notifications in your Windows 8 application.
07/29/2012
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How to disable Expression Blend design time data at runtime.
07/23/2012
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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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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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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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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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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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This tutorial demonstrates how to give users more power with the ability to customize live tiles in Metro style apps.
06/04/2012
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By Michael Crump
PhoneGap is used for building mobile applications across a range of devices with JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3. Learn how to use PhoneGap to build a Windows Phone application that can be easily ported to another phone.
06/04/2012
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Use the Microsoft Sync Framework to synchronize data changes between SQL Server 2008 Standard, SQL Server 2008 Express and SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5.
06/02/2012
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The Microsoft JavaScript Upshot library provides a simplified API for retrieving data from the server and caching it at the client for reuse. Coupled with Knockout, the two JavaScript libraries form the pillars of the Microsoft client-side programming model.
06/02/2012
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Peter Vogel continues his exploration of WCF 4.5's support for WebSockets by writing the code to accept data from the client and then return data to the client whenever that data becomes available.
05/29/2012
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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.
05/21/2012
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How to use a feature called SPRibbon to overcome tab activation limitations.
05/17/2012
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Why Visual Studio copies local databases to different folders, and what you can do about it.
05/14/2012