SharePoint Application Pages provide truly flexible functionality across all the sites within a SharePoint front end. You can use Visual Studio to create those pages, with the added bonus of securing the content during development.
- By Malin De Silva
- 05/22/2015
New features in this version include the automation of screen caps of Web pages being tested and customizable test result reports.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/21/2015
In this final part on test-driven app development with ASP.NET MVC, Eric covers how to unit test the services layer.
You don't always want to display the same data the same way. Here are your options for leveraging custom templates in Views to meet all of your needs -- and the code you need when a template won't do the job.
In this second part on TDD for ASP.NET MVC, Eric Vogel covers how to implement unit tests for the remaining CRUD controller actions.
Protect your ASP.NET applications from Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks by leveraging ARMOR, a C# implementation of the Encrypted Token Pattern. Here's how.
You can easily slide middleware and other custom code into the ASP.NET pipeline by taking advantage of the Microsoft implementation of the OWIN specification in the coming Visual Studio 2015.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 05/11/2015
The hooks in SharePoint Apps allow developers to streamline the process of creating them without SharePoint getting in the way.
- By Malin De Silva
- 04/30/2015
The company packed quite a bit into a three-hour keynote that spanned the spectrum of Microsoft technologies and hardware. For developers, the emphasis was on cross-platform app building, with new tools built right into the next Visual Studio 2015.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/29/2015
Promises not only provides a simple, flexible interface for assembling chains of asynchronous operations in client-side code, it also makes it easier for you to manage parallel processing.
Project renaming, a top user feature, now available, as is account restoration and several incremental configuration updates to Kanban boards and Taskboards.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/28/2015
It's what unit testing should be. Here's how to use it to test your apps.
- By Jason Roberts
- 04/22/2015
Stored procedures can speed up your code by reducing trips to your database -- even if you only have one SQL statement to execute. Here's how to speed up your application (and how to simplify your stored procedure code).
DevXpress releases Version 15.1 with numerous bug fixes, but there's also a streamlining of features and weeding out of experimental features and functions.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/09/2015
Microsoft has been running full steam ahead with its "open" development process. So what does it mean to those developing across disparate platforms? Scott Hanselman explains.
- By Wallace McClure
- 03/31/2015
Azure API Tools for Visual Studio 2013 gives developers a quick path to connecting to third-party REST APIs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/30/2015
Now that you know how to use them (see Part 1 if you don't), it's time to create custom ones.
- By Jason Roberts
- 03/26/2015
The open source library for developing AJAX-Webified apps gets a much-needed face lift to get with the modern coding times.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/18/2015
Adding real-time diagnostics and communication to a Windows Phone 8.1 application is no challenge for SignalR.
- By Nick Randolph
- 03/10/2015
It's more complex than back propagation, but Rprop has advantages in training speed and efficiency.
- By James McCaffrey
- 03/09/2015