Because the mobile platform has come later in the history of computing, developers have gotten in the habit of redesigning desktop applications for the handheld device. Peter Vogel thinks developers have that backward, and that the UI design process shows the way out.
Eric Vogel covers how to create a real-time Web data entry form with ASP.NET MVC, KnockOutJS and SignalR.
In the first installment of app-building with SignalR, learn how to build a real-time chat application.
Creating connectable Web Parts is a good thing for you and your users -- and the default interfaces that come with SharePoint form the architecture you should use to create those Web Parts.
What's next on the data frontier? Microsoft will take us into the world of in-memory transactional databases and big data. And if you know how to write code and queries against SQL Server, then you already have the necessary skills to play there.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 01/02/2013
Peter returns to creating a provider WebPart, but this time passes SharePoint list data from one WebPart to another.
Learn lessons about your own code through the errors committed by other developers.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 12/04/2012
Should you wait for Service Pack 1? The new Update model is replacing Service Packs, according to Microsoft.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/26/2012
ASP.NET provides a wealth of options for dynamically integrating JavaScript into your client-side pages. And by adding T4 into the mix, you can generate, at runtime, exactly the client-side code that your page needs.
Tracking down performance problems in your application can be a frustrating experience. Reduce your stress levels with custom counters.
- By Benjamin Day
- 10/02/2012
With more than 600,000 downloads of Visual Studio 2012 in a less than 4 weeks, the new IDE has the fastest download rate in the product's history.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/12/2012
Develop and test in a WCF Service Library project while hosting your application in an ASP.NET project.
Peter returns to the ASP.NET Web API in Visual Studio 2012 to use it with ASP.NET. And this time, he's moving complete objects from the client up to the server in an HTTP POST.
Windows Communication Foundation routing lets you decouple your service consumers and providers to give you the flexibility to modify and extend your services without disrupting your clients.
Test Studio brings together the tools to fully test your applications -- provided your team is willing to make the commitment to using it.
Prism's Navigation API makes it a lot easier to swap Views in and out of regions in your Window -- assuming you give Prism enough information to do the job right.
All of ASP.NET's security/membership support boils down to generating a cookie that allows the user access to your site's folders.
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.
There's no way to tell just by looking at a list whether the list supports multiple or single selections.
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.