Peter looks at how rewriting some complex code -- purely to make it easier to read -- eliminates the need for writing comments. He even adds a comment to some code.
How to manage visual states, and perform navigation and testing of your view models from within a Windows Phone PCL.
- By Nick Randolph
- 09/11/2013
A look at the improvements and new features of the updated collection of background APIs.
- By Tony Champion
- 09/06/2013
Peter Vogel continues to build out a TypeScript project by defining a view model. Along the way he looks at defining interfaces, setting up constructors, creating optional parameters and initializing arrays in TypeScript.
Learn how to use the new Authentication filters in ASP.NET MVC 5, currently in developer preview.
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 support for claims-based security can make your existing authorization system more powerful and flexible, even if you never intend to start working with third-party security providers. Plus, it's backward-compatible with virtually all of the authorization code you're already using.
Learn how to write both code and tests that can be shared across multiple platforms.
- By Greg Shackles
- 08/26/2013
In Part 2 of his column, Mickey Gousset dives deeper into the Test Explorer window.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 08/26/2013
ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 08/16/2013
When you have too many Editor windows open, you can pick which Windows you don't need any more and close them all with a single click.
The Observer Pattern is the foundation of Model View Controller (MVC) development. In this article, you'll learn how to use it by building a simple email application.
Understanding how back-propagation works will enable you to use neural network tools more effectively.
- By James McCaffrey
- 08/13/2013
Get powerful, client-side data binding in JavaScript using Knockout.
- By Patrick Steele
- 08/12/2013
Windows Phone tooling is more advanced than that for Windows 8. But savvy developers can use that to their advantage when building Windows Store apps.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/12/2013
The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) framework can be vulnerable to phishing and other attacks. Learn how to protect it with these tactics.
- By Joydip Kanjilal
- 08/09/2013
Don't re-invent the wheel when building your Windows 8 apps. Instead, save coding time by using (and customizing) the Search contract to add this critical piece of functionality.
- By Tony Champion
- 08/07/2013
Learn how to add spell checking to your applications.
Rodrigo Munoz walks you through how to fix two of the most challenging Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 7 responsive design bugs: media queries and box-sizing.
- By Rodrigo Munoz
- 08/05/2013
Test-driven development has been enhanced with Visual Studio 2012; learn how to use this powerful tool by building a class library for math functions.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 07/29/2013
Building your applications so that each part does just one job well makes everything easier. Peter Vogel applies that approach to a Windows Forms app and, in addition to getting it to work, creates a more responsive application.
Learn how to use asynchronous controller actions in ASP.NET MVC 4 by building a simple Contacts Manager app.
James McCaffrey explains how to normalize and encode neural network data from a developer's point of view.
- By James McCaffrey
- 07/22/2013
Google has replaced MapView with MapFragment for adding mapping and location in Android. Learn what the new API can do, and how to use it.
- By Wallace McClure
- 07/18/2013
James McCaffrey demonstrates the brute-force, Fisher-shuffle and reservoir-sampling techniques.
- By James McCaffrey
- 07/17/2013
The latest version of TypeScript adds generics but there's more in the package than that. Peter looks at what's new.