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
The second hands-on look at Microsoft's upcoming compilers-as-a-service technology is now available to developers in a June 2012 Community Technology Preview.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/05/2012
This tutorial demonstrates how to give users more power with the ability to customize live tiles in Metro style apps.
Handling exceptions in the Task-Based Asynchronous Pattern has become much easier with the latest version of the Microsoft .NET Framework.
- By Patrick Steele
- 06/03/2012
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.
Moving property values from one object to another can be tricky; DevTrends has a set of extensions that can help.
Eric Vogel shows you how to simplify the consumption of your API by adding a fluent interface design.
The latest Android SDK provides an emulator with improved debugging capabilities. Mono for Android developers will appreciate the upgrades.
- By Wallace McClure
- 04/26/2012
How to implement an undo/redo system using the Command pattern in the .NET Framework.
In Part 1 of this series, Eric Vogel walks you through a software design pattern that is commonly used to handle UI interactions.
See how a simple interceptor can help reduce the amount of coding needed to initialize your Windows Presentation Foundation ICommand properties.
- By Patrick Steele
- 04/03/2012
Validation should begin as close to your database as possible: in your Entity Framework entities. Here's how you can integrate validation code into both the entities the Entity Framework generates and the ones you write.
Bing Maps moves beyond Silverlight and AJAX with the new native WPF Control, which enables you to build interactive tools for visualizing geographical data on the desktop.
- By James McCaffrey
- 04/01/2012
Eric Vogel walks through how to send and receive push notifications in a Windows 8 Metro application.
10 questions and answers to help understand the Roslyn complier-as-a-service project for Visual Basic and C# developers.
Learn how to extend Visual Studio 2010 by creating code issue providers with the Roslyn CTP.
Many developers are worried about the compatibility of Silverlight with Metro-style applications. This project shows that those fears are overblown.
- By Michael Crump
- 03/01/2012
Along with Visual Studio 11, betas of the .NET Framework 4.5 and two versions of Team Foundation Server were released.
Eric Vogel shows you how to use a common software design pattern that allows an app to dynamically pick an appropriate method at runtime.
Eric Vogel covers how to use the Windows 8 local data storage APIs to cache application data.