The Microsoft MEF can be used for dependency injection, but it does it much differently than most other containers. See how to get the most from the unique features of MEF.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 11/21/2014
Before launching into his presentation on the intricacies of building Azure-based Web sites, Microsoft's Jeffrey Fritz talks about Tuesday's widespread Azure outage that affected sites throughout most of the northern hemisphere.
Advances in touch-based computing opens up a host of new ways for users to interact with apps. Developers will need to keep up and be keenly aware of newer natural UI design methods, such as voice, gesture, and even neural inputs, says InterKnowlogy's Tim Huckaby.
Developers no longer need to take a side road through Linux hosts to manage Docker container deployments, now that a Windows CLI can offer a direct path from Windows environments.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/19/2014
Peter responds to a question: How, in an ASP.NET MVC form, can the user be given two submit Buttons that do two different things?
Version 6.1.2 contains some high-priority fixes that need to be tested in the wild before it is RTM'd; meanwhile, next version of Entity Framework might be version 7 or something else.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/18/2014
The Visual Studio ALM product manager leads the crowd at Live! 360 through some of the market forces driving cloud development.
Integrating unit testing into your coding practices can have some positive psychological effects on your programming career.
- By Patrick Steele
- 11/18/2014
New, stabilized version of functional programming language available to those who are previewing Visual Studio 2015.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/17/2014
Reactive Extensions will let you catch interim results from a long running process. Coupled with the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 support for asynchronous processing, you don't even have to lock up your client while you process those results.
Microsoft joins an alliance of companies who are working to develop an open source framework and services for Internet of Things-enabled device intercommunication. The results of that work is expected to show up in current versions of Windows and the forthcoming Windows 10.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/13/2014
Microsoft also releases a bevy of next-generation Visual Studio tools, including Visual Studio Community 2013, which is a full-featured Visual Studio 2013 sans enterprise app development capabilities.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/12/2014
A neural network implementation can be a nice addition to a Python programmer's skill set. If you're new to Python, examining a neural network implementation is a great way to learn the language.
- By James McCaffrey
- 11/12/2014
Containerized, "bring-your-own security" solution consists of an Apache Tomcat app server with the Waratek Locker.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/06/2014
It’s crunch time for Ben and his team. After a long journey, their project to uplift their biggest client’s application code is nearly at an end. Hopefully they didn’t miss anything ...
ASP.NET MVC 5.1 has new HTML helpers that can be used to ease Bootstrap integration, as well as enum data type binding.
Here's how to build a Windows Phone application that synchronizes data with Azure Mobile Services, triggered when the device restores its network connection.
- By Nick Randolph
- 11/01/2014
Peter explains why he doesn't believe in "responsive designs" that allow a single application to work in both the desktop and mobile environments.
The plugin is aimed at Android devs who want to connect apps to Office 365 services and Azure Mobile Services.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/31/2014
Peter extends his Backbone/Typescript application to support updating and deleting Customer objects. Along the way he discovers what looks like a bug in the way that Backbone and TypeScript work together.