JavaScript has been part of the Microsoft technology stable since the 1990s, and its prominence in the next wave of Microsoft products is huge.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 08/31/2012
This simple API can give you a leg up on local storage in your Web apps.
Microsoft launched a developer contest on Wednesday with a top prize of $10,000 for the winning Office or SharePoint 2013 app.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/10/2012
Learn how to automate the WebBrowser control to display and customize the way Web content appears in your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/01/2012
The operating system will release to manufacturing in August.
If you haven't heard much about Silverlight lately, a few things have popped up in recent weeks that shed some light on Microsoft's vision for the technology and how to move forward.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 07/13/2012
If you haven't checked out CSS, understanding the most often used core selectors is a good place to start.
The Gizmox Enterprise Mobile development package is a clever -- perhaps brilliant -- hack that lets you create mobile Web-based applications in a Windows Forms-like IDE.
Windows Phone 8, expected later this year, will introduce a development model based on C++/C and DirectX to facilitate code sharing with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/20/2012
PhoneGap is used for building mobile applications across a range of devices with JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3. Learn how to use PhoneGap to build a Windows Phone application that can be easily ported to another phone.
- By Michael Crump
- 06/04/2012
Time is causing Windows to evolve, but those changes offer new opportunities for app developers.
Visual Studio Magazine Tools Editor Peter Vogel wanted to avoid the raw, uninitialized HTML/HTML5 that users sometimes see in their browsers before JavaScript properly arranges things.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2012
Doc-To-Help continues to provide a single source for a variety of document and help types, including a jQuery format targeted for mobile devices.
Peter looks at Knockout, one of the MVC environments for writing client-side JavaScript, and wonders if we're on the wrong path.
External templates allow you to reduce the code in your main HTML page, and reuse it in multiple places.