SharePoint 2013 offers several ways to interact with the SharePoint data, one of which is through the SharePoint SDK for Windows Phone 8. Malin De Silva walks through the process.
- By Malin De Silva
- 06/10/2015
Peter revisits an earlier tip on how to use stored procedures to speed up your code. This version makes your stored procedures simpler … though you may have to write a little more code to make the call.
Avoid the drudgery of repetitive tasks. AutoHotKey is the most powerful keyboard scripting and automation tool for Windows, and I'll show you how to get started.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 06/08/2015
Natural UI expert Tim Huckaby live-demonstrated at Visual Studio Live! in Austin this week some well-developed but primitive NUI capabilities with his phone that show what is capable in the very near future as the technology matures.
Microsoft announced pricing cuts for volume users starting June 1 while Application Insights is in public preview.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/04/2015
Long hours finally took their toll on Adam's health, so Gerry picked up the slack in his own peculiar way -- introducing some slick do-it-all function.
Eric Vogel goes over a few C# 6.0 language improvements that will help make your coding experiences more concise.
Microsoft's Jay Schmelzer kicks off Visual Studio Live! in Austin, Texas highlighting the company's latest open source efforts within Visual Studio 2015 and the .NET Framework.
Xamarin Inc. is teaming up to integrate its cross-platform mobile development tools with IBM MobileFirst Protect security software.
Learn how to get started writing apps for your wrist!
- By Greg Shackles
- 06/02/2015
Project System Extensibility SDK improves upon Visual Studio Managed Package Framework for Projects' process for project system plug-in development.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/02/2015
Now that Google is adopting TypeScript as the development tool for Angular 2, TypeScript 1.5 is going to gain some functionality driven by features in Google AtScript. But there's more in the next version of TypeScript than just AtScript features.
The newest work-in-progress WCF that's targeting .NET Core is now being open sourced on GitHub.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/28/2015
Microsoft finally unveiled the Windows Universal Application Platform at Build in San Francisco. Nick Randolph takes the new controls -- and other changes that assist developers building adaptive layout applications -- out for a spin.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/27/2015
In the real world, you'll often need to display constant and repeating data, a.k.a. Master/Detail pages. Custom templates are the cleanest, simplest way for you to manage them.
Buried in Microsoft's May bulletins are two .NET Framework fixes that are rated critical and important.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/26/2015
SharePoint Application Pages provide truly flexible functionality across all the sites within a SharePoint front end. You can use Visual Studio to create those pages, with the added bonus of securing the content during development.
- By Malin De Silva
- 05/22/2015
New features in this version include the automation of screen caps of Web pages being tested and customizable test result reports.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/21/2015
In this final part on test-driven app development with ASP.NET MVC, Eric covers how to unit test the services layer.
The Visual Studio Code Team improves a few features of the portable code editor -- in particular, public issue tracking and centralized feedback channnel -- while still in preview.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/19/2015