In Part 2 of this series, Eric Vogel covers how to implement authentication and basic authorization with an Azure Mobile Service-backed Windows Store application.
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
Microsoft launched a developer contest on Wednesday with a top prize of $10,000 for the winning Office or SharePoint 2013 app.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/10/2012
Eric Vogel covers some practical uses for the long awaited interfaces, IReadOnlyList and IReadOnlyDictionary in .NET Framework 4.5.
This year's developer conference is scheduled to take place at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Wash., just days after Windows 8 ships.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 07/25/2012
If you haven't heard much about Silverlight lately, a few things have popped up in recent weeks that shed some light on Microsoft's vision for the technology and how to move forward.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 07/13/2012
In part 1 of his series on advanced live tiles, Eric Vogel shows you how to add secondary tiles to your Windows 8 Metro style applications.
The company is bringing back free tooling for Windows desktop apps after developers expressed frustration over the Visual Studio 2012 Express lineup.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/08/2012
Integrating with SkyDrive can help your Windows Phone application save a user's settings to the cloud, and retrieve them across multiple devices and platforms.
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/05/2012
Eric Vogel shows you how to simplify the consumption of your API by adding a fluent interface design.
On Wednesday Microsoft announced that it has signed a deal with Twilio to give developers the ability to have voice and SMS-enabled applications run on the Windows Azure cloud service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/03/2012
Nick Randolph shows how to create and work with the Application Bar in your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 03/30/2012
Scott Hanselman, senior program manager in Microsoft's Developer Division, said that the decision wasn't really about open source: "This is about open development."
- By John K. Waters
- 03/28/2012
Learn how to publish data in the Windows Azure Marketplace for a monthly income with just a few hours effort.
What will Windows 8 really mean for the future of .NET developers? Four industry experts share their insights.
Microsoft has cleared perhaps the last hurdle in its race to release "Mango", the first major update for Windows Phone 7, by announcing it is now accepting app submissions.
Nick Randolph walks through how to define, change and work with orientation within your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/09/2011
Not all business operations finish in seconds. Using Windows Communication Foundation you can still create -- as a single project -- an application that supports business services that take hours (or days or weeks or months) to complete.
Patrick Steele responds to questions about Lambda properties, interface-based code, and unsubscribing from events, among others.
- By Patrick Steele
- 08/02/2011
In a manner similar to its growth in the smartphone arena, Google's mobile OS, Android, is gaining ground quickly on Apple's iOS, which powers the iPhone and iPad devices.