One key change that will smooth your transition from ASP.NET to Windows 8 is to think like a designer from the outset.
- By Brandon Downing, Phillip Stewart
- 06/05/2013
In a Bring Your Own Device (BOYD) world, .NET Framework support for Portable Class Libraries (PCLs) provides a base for writing code that will run on any platform -- provided you understand the limitations of PCLs and how to structure your applications to exploit them.
- By Muhammad Siddiqi
- 05/09/2013
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
The Windows Phone 8 SDK added a speech recognition API that's easy to use and flexible. Learn how to put it to work in your application.
- By Michael Crump
- 04/09/2013
CSS3 media queries are the key to making responsive design work.
- By Rodrigo Munoz
- 04/01/2013
This new series on the Visual Studio Magazine Web site redesign focuses first on one of the most frustrating things you can encounter on implementing responsive designs -- having layouts break after adding padding or borders -- and what you need to do to fix this.
- By Rodrigo Munoz
- 03/12/2013
Although continuing to gain in popularity among developers, Agile methods still suffer from misperceptions. Here are seven of those myths, and why they're bunk.
- By Joel Semeniuk
- 03/01/2013
SQL Bulk Insert has been tuned over the years to work well with the Microsoft .NET Framework. This tutorial shows you how to take advantage of its power.
- By Erik Bartlow
- 03/01/2013
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
Building and debugging Web-based applications with Chrome Developer Tools is easier than you might think.
- By Patrick Steele
- 02/08/2013
Mickey Gousset introduces you to unit testing SharePoint 2010 applications using the SharePoint Emulators.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 02/08/2013
Whether you're new to JavaScript or well-versed in all it has to offer, TypeScript is a compelling option.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 02/05/2013
jQuery support for the new HTML5 data attributes may not be everything a developer could want -- but it's very close. And, more important, it's the perfect solution for handling transactional data.
Squashing this bug required out-of-the-box thinking, and some Disassembly magic.
- By Boris Eligulashvili
- 02/01/2013
Our second annual salary survey indicates that experience pays off for Microsoft software professionals.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/15/2013
Learn lessons about your own code through the errors committed by other developers.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 12/04/2012
Every Silverlight developer needs to know these differences between Silverlight and the Windows Runtime before starting on a WinRT app.
- By Michael Crump
- 12/04/2012
The readers have spoken, the votes tallied. Which products have been chosen as worthy to take home the gold, silver or bronze? Our annual awards celebrate your most valuable tools.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/06/2012
A priority queue assigns a priority to each element. Knowing how to build them is important in solving many coding problems.
- By James McCaffrey
- 11/02/2012
Tracking down performance problems in your application can be a frustrating experience. Reduce your stress levels with custom counters.
- By Benjamin Day
- 10/02/2012