Nick looks at the preview release of Blend for Visual Studio 2015 and demonstrates some tips and tricks that will save you time and help you build better looking Windows Phone applications.
- By Nick Randolph
- 12/09/2014
To accommodate an influx of year-end work, Guillaume's employer does what many stores do -- hire on temporary help. However, when you're desperate, beggars can't always be choosers.
If wrangling queries is getting you down, these 11 data access extensions for Visual Studio can help.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 12/04/2014
There are two strategies for downloading multiple objects from your service with Backbone: The obvious one and the fast one. Peter implements the fast one.
Did you know you can combine C#, F#, Visual Basic, Razor, HTML and JavaScript within a single app?
- By Greg Shackles
- 12/01/2014
The Microsoft MEF can be used for dependency injection, but it does it much differently than most other containers. See how to get the most from the unique features of MEF.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 11/21/2014
Peter responds to a question: How, in an ASP.NET MVC form, can the user be given two submit Buttons that do two different things?
Integrating unit testing into your coding practices can have some positive psychological effects on your programming career.
- By Patrick Steele
- 11/18/2014
Reactive Extensions will let you catch interim results from a long running process. Coupled with the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 support for asynchronous processing, you don't even have to lock up your client while you process those results.
A neural network implementation can be a nice addition to a Python programmer's skill set. If you're new to Python, examining a neural network implementation is a great way to learn the language.
- By James McCaffrey
- 11/12/2014
It’s crunch time for Ben and his team. After a long journey, their project to uplift their biggest client’s application code is nearly at an end. Hopefully they didn’t miss anything ...
ASP.NET MVC 5.1 has new HTML helpers that can be used to ease Bootstrap integration, as well as enum data type binding.
Here's how to build a Windows Phone application that synchronizes data with Azure Mobile Services, triggered when the device restores its network connection.
- By Nick Randolph
- 11/01/2014
Peter explains why he doesn't believe in "responsive designs" that allow a single application to work in both the desktop and mobile environments.
Peter extends his Backbone/Typescript application to support updating and deleting Customer objects. Along the way he discovers what looks like a bug in the way that Backbone and TypeScript work together.
Eric Vogel covers some of the new features in ASP.NET MVC 5.1. In this first of a two-part series, he takes a good, long look at some new attribute routing options.
Explicitly setting all the bindings needed to compose your application -- that's a lot of work! See how to use convention over configuration to save time and make your composition easier to understand.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 10/28/2014
The Xamarin tool ecosystem is gaining popularity, as more developers continue to build tools with mobility in mind. Here's how to use them in your projects.
- By Wallace McClure
- 10/23/2014
Web development is easier when you've got the right tools at hand. Here are 14 tools and extensions for building Web apps.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 10/22/2014
When you have a process that can return multiple results over time, then .NET Framework Reactive Extensions will let you simplify your code and manage it better.