A few features get fine-tuned, including how Visual Studio Online is able to add a directory to an existing account to better centralize identity management.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/22/2014
Database schema comparisons, security among incremental updates made to this July 2014 release of SSDT.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/21/2014
Kenny Kerr continues his series about compiler fundamentals by introducing the syntax analysis, grammars, and the act of parsing or interpreting source code.
The principles of great UI design start from a different place than the principles that lead to great application design. They both end up in exactly the same place, though.
CTP 1 of the Microsoft development platform package manager introduces a new package source, speeds up performance and adds a debugger console.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/17/2014
Ondrej Balas continues his series on refactoring code for dependency injection, focusing on techniques that make it easier to refactor complex applications.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 07/16/2014
Next up: Developer kits to roll out to early registrants, along with open source code for building Internet of Things-connected apps and devices.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/16/2014
New technology called Apportals aimed at enterprise developers working in healthcare, sales and distributed organizations and requires XAML and C# skills to set up.
The best thing you can do in order to create a great UI is to stop thinking about UI design.
When you need a specialty development tool like an HTTP debugger, you have a few options. I'll take a look at the popular current offerings and talk to some of their developers about the experience of building these apps.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 07/14/2014
The Windows Phone app for creating Windows Phone apps adds a bevy of features for testers to try out, including some design improvements, as well as support for more REST services connections.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/14/2014
Following up the release of Visual Studio "14" CTP a little more than a month ago, Microsoft released another CTP just this week.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/11/2014
Visual Studio Online adds two new features: a free "Stakeholder" license that allows limited accessibility, and access to the Test Hub for those on Visual Studio Online Advanced.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/11/2014
The final version is expected sometime this summer.
Microsoft and Perfecto Mobile announced new features for mobile app testing in Visual Studio and Microsoft Azure.
If you're used to ListBox or LongListSelector, find out how the GridView and ListView controls for Windows Phone 8.1 can do it better.
- By Nick Randolph
- 07/07/2014
The UnityVS add-on allows Unity developers to work within Visual Studio.
Navigation in mobile devices is an important consideration. If a user isn't able to navigate an app, he might quickly abandon it. Learn the navigation principles of Android to keep this from happening to you.
- By Wallace McClure
- 06/28/2014
You can completely disconnect your test code from your database with Entity Framework 6 in .NET and Visual Studio. You just need a little bit of custom code for your application, along with some boilerplate code.
A critical auditing app was as down as the floor of the Grand Canyon. And each day it was down was a six-figure fine.