C#, Azure and JavaScript skills also make the Top-10 Most Wanted list.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/03/2013
A new feature of Windows Store apps, utilizing background tasks will not only help circumvent some challenges from the Windows Store app lifecycle, but they can keep your app responsive to what's going on with the user's device.
- By Tony Champion
- 05/02/2013
Even if you're not working in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, .NET provides you with a way to create a read-only collection or to convert an existing List into a read-only collection.
Eric Vogel covers how to capture video in a Windows Store app by using the MediaCapture API.
Learn how to create a perceptron that can categorize inputs consisting of two numeric values.
- By James McCaffrey
- 04/16/2013
Eric Vogel covers how to capture a photo in a Windows Store App by using the MediaCapture API.
Learn how to play multimedia files with the Windows Runtime media API.
Use the open source Nancy Web framework to expose a Web-based configuration UI for a Windows service.
- By Patrick Steele
- 03/20/2013
James McCaffrey presents one of the basic building blocks of a neural network.
- By James McCaffrey
- 03/15/2013
No database for your Windows Store app? No problem -- SQLite to the rescue!
A new IDE, Xamarin Studio, is also part of the release.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 02/20/2013
One of the most significant updates is the introduction of a convention-based extension model, in which you can configure a set of naming conventions to allow MEF parts to be easily picked up by your application.
Entropy Minimization is a new clustering algorithm that works with both categorical and numeric data, and scales well to extremely large data sets.
- By James McCaffrey
- 02/09/2013
Squashing this bug required out-of-the-box thinking, and some Disassembly magic.
- By Boris Eligulashvili
- 02/01/2013
In the first installment of app-building with SignalR, learn how to build a real-time chat application.
The contest was based on the growth in the number of searches from the previous year.
Eric Vogel shows you how to use the CultureInfo API in .NET Framework 4.5 to simplify localization in a multi-threaded application.
Developers continue to show gains in salary and have better job security than most others, according to Visual Studio Magazine's second-annual salary survey.
A useful set of tools for creating PDF documents dynamically from code.
Eric Vogel covers how to use the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to extend a Windows Store application.