Prune your Entity Framework with the help of asynchronous methods.
Remote Desktop App for Windows Phone 8.1 has limitations that rankle some, though.
Go deeper into the Oculus Rift SDK.
MSDN subscribers can try it for free with their Microsoft-supplied credits.
Microsoft's newest CEO seems to understand the challenges Microsoft faces, and is positioning the company to re-assert its preeminent place in the industry.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 06/04/2014
It's a preview of the next version of the IDE, expected to hit in 2015.
Gartner also says Azure is still "Microsoft-centric," appealing primarily to .NET developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/03/2014
Entity Framework 6 gives you a variety of ways to call stored procedures that return data and capture the results those procedures return. Here's a look at all of them.
The tool was entirely rebuilt for better monitoring of applications.
What's proper etiquette for handling code snafus when working for -- literally -- a mom-and-pop company?
Tighter integration with Visual Studio among the highlights.
Learn how to leverage the powerful resource system of Android to support a variety of Android devices and languages.
- By Greg Shackles
- 05/28/2014
The API is for the HTML Client.
The Update comes fewer than two weeks after the official release of Update 2 at TechEd North America.
When you implement the Model-View-ViewModel pattern you need to tell your View (in this case, a Windows Form) when the ViewModel has new data. Here's how to do that, along with a warning about how to avoid a potential bug.
It currently only works with new Visual Studio Online accounts, but that will soon change.
A cornucopia of code editing and collaboration software that lets you use the same familiar tools no matter what computer you're working on.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 05/21/2014
One Microsoft employee calls it a "business decision" -- and a bad one at that.
Take control of your application's behavior and move toward dependency injection by refactoring your existing code.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 05/20/2014
Visual Studio 2013 came with a new version of Web API. The Web API 2.1 update includes a host of new features, including support for Binary JSON. Learn how to leverage BSON by building a Web API 2.1 service.