Naming conventions are obviously a good thing, right? Not necessarily -- and only if you understand the problem they solve.
Eric Vogel covers the Oculus Rift VR headset and how to put it too good use in your .NET apps in Part 1 of this series.
After having a UI design invalidated during usability testing, Peter has to find a way to figure out what the user wants the application to do.
There's no doubt that the ASP.NET Web API is a wonderful thing. But developing services that support content negotiation in a testable way requires a little setup.
James McCaffrey walks you through whys and hows of using k-fold cross-validation to gauge the quality of your neural network values.
- By James McCaffrey
- 10/24/2013
Peter looks for help in building an extension method that will let him compare two objects in a Visual Studio Test. In return, he introduces the CollectionAssert class.
Visual Studio 2013's new CodeLens feature provides a wide variety of information to the developer, all while never leaving the code editing window.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 10/21/2013
Use custom-built .NET 4.0 classes to connect an application to a SQL Server 2012 database.
- By Frank Solomon
- 10/18/2013
Yes, sometimes you need sophisticated libraries that handle HTTP requests asynchronously, but in other situations that can be overkill. An old Internet Explorer API may have a solution.
The Adapter Pattern allows incompatible interfaces to communicate. Learn how it works by building an application that calculates prime numbers.
Your guide to all aspects of how Xamarin has implemented .NET 4.5/C# 5's support for asynch operations in Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android.
- By Wallace McClure
- 10/10/2013
Learn why more and more C# developers are turning to CoffeeScript to build their JavaScript-based Web applications.
- By Patrick Steele
- 10/08/2013
From project templates to themes to testing to authentication and much more, Nick Randolph looks at some of the tools, technologies and techniques you'll need if you want to become a professional Windows Phone developer.
- By Nick Randolph
- 10/07/2013
Creating a Windows Service is trivial using Topshelf, a freely-available library that converts a console application to a Windows Service. In this article, you'll create a simple notification app and integrate Topshelf.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 10/03/2013
Peter starts integrating a TypeScript client-side object with a server-side Web API service. Along the way, he looks at method overloading (not good), making JSON calls (good), testing asynchronous methods in Visual Studio (mostly good) and being a "TypeScript programmer."
Create a Windows Store app that consumes a Web API service.
Think of a Team Room as a collaborative chat workspace that records everything that happens on your team. In addition to being a real-time chat room, it also integrates with TFS to display data and interactions.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 09/30/2013
Claims-based security lets you manage your site's authorization process using any criteria that makes sense to you. And the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 provides some performance support for you once you start using claims-based security.
The first installment discussed what Knockout.js is, why and how it evolved, and how it fits into Web development. This month, the discussion dives into best practices for Knockout, extending it and creating custom bindings.
- By Kelly Adams, Mark Michaelis
- 09/24/2013
Quickly populate your applications with fake names, addresses, phone numbers and much more with freely available libraries.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 09/23/2013
As part of building a client-side application in a test-driven way and using TypeScript, Peter creates a Web API service and writes a test that proves he can access it from JavaScript code -- though there are some "wrinkles" in making this work. Along the way, he has an insight about TypeScript versus other, first-class .NET languages.
The use of constructor/destructor pairs for resource management is the most important feature that distinguishes C++ from its predecessor.
Eric Vogel covers how to use the new Web API 2 routing attributes to create a Web service in Part 1 of this series.
James McCaffrey explains the common neural network training technique known as the back-propagation algorithm.
- By James McCaffrey
- 09/16/2013
Wally McClure guides you through using the XCode design surface integration with Xamarin Studio, and programmatically creating controls.
- By Wallace McClure
- 09/13/2013