SharePoint 2013 workflows for automating common business processes can be deployed as SharePoint apps built using Visual Studio.
- By Malin De Silva
- 03/12/2015
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
Xamarin.Forms gives you the gift of XAML if you're looking to take the short route to building mobile interfaces.
- By Wallace McClure
- 03/05/2015
You don't have to reinvent the Web site to publish some documentation for your project. Take advantage of GitHub Pages to build almost point-and-click doc sites.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 03/04/2015
You don't need to worry about keeping your current job -- it will be gone, eventually. What you want to worry about is keeping your next job. That means developing the right skills to the right level for the package you intend to provide to employers.
If there's one life lesson to be learned here, it's that just because a manager knows how to write code, it doesn't mean that they should be allowed to write code.
In this three-part series, we'll build an ASP.NET MVC application for managing a simple list of contacts, and in the process we'll show some of the direct benefits of test-driven development.
Here's the simplest possible code for creating a custom collection class in the Microsoft .NET Framework that includes support for For…Each loops, an indexer method and initializing collections with {…}.
Writing automated UI tests for your iOS and Android apps might not be as difficult as you think. Learn how to set up tests for your apps with Xamarin.UITest.
- By Greg Shackles
- 02/17/2015
The TypeScript approach to data typing is different than what you're used to with server-side languages. This allows the language to integrate with other JavaScript libraries, but the results can surprise you.
Be triple sure your code works by augmenting your test platform. This nifty open source library will do that.
- By Jason Roberts
- 02/12/2015
There's no right answer to "What technology should I learn next?" But there is a way to manage your skills to maximize the return you get from them.
It's a little more than one month into the new year, and there's a wave of new Visual Studio extensions available specifically for Visual Studio 2013.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 02/10/2015
Xamarin's development lead offers insights into the Android 5 Lollipop update and how the speed with which Android releases spin out affects their own releases.
- By Wallace McClure
- 02/09/2015
There once was an invoicing system that, when it worked, it worked very well, indeed. But when it was broken, it was horrid.
Now that you know how to work with multi-swarm optimization, it's time to take it up a level and see how to train your network to use it.
- By James McCaffrey
- 02/04/2015
You don't have to give up using dynamic SQL just because you're using Entity Framework. The Entity Framework SqlQuery method will give you back the flexibility of dynamic SQL and still let you work with your data in an object-oriented way.
Forget post backs! Easily add REST services to enhance your legacy Web Forms applications.
- By Patrick Steele
- 02/03/2015
Android 5 Lollipop has a few new features -- including some UI and performance improvements -- that can now be incorporated into your apps. Here's how to work with the update.
- By Wallace McClure
- 01/29/2015