C#, Azure and JavaScript skills also make the Top-10 Most Wanted list.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/03/2013
A new feature of Windows Store apps, utilizing background tasks will not only help circumvent some challenges from the Windows Store app lifecycle, but they can keep your app responsive to what's going on with the user's device.
- By Tony Champion
- 05/02/2013
The Open Technologies Group has open sourced ASP.NET, MVC 4, and the Entity Framework, among other technologies.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/01/2013
Your UI could work exactly the way you intended it to work and still fail during usability testing.
Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Ultimate Edition) includes a new tool to help visualize code relationships, and it's worth your time to learn.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 04/26/2013
Things won't happen as quickly for on-premises versions of Office.
Even if you're not working in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, .NET provides you with a way to create a read-only collection or to convert an existing List into a read-only collection.
Eric Vogel covers how to capture video in a Windows Store app by using the MediaCapture API.
In the first installment of Practical JavaScript, Peter Vogel describes how a client-side skeptic evolved into a JavaScript fan thanks to several tools and a book. He also shares why he's concerned about TypeScript and where he's going to take this .NET-oriented JavaScript column over the next few months.
Xamarin, which specializes in building tools that let developers build mobile apps in C#, has taken that idea one step further with Xamarin.iOS.
- By Wallace McClure
- 04/19/2013
Learn how to create a perceptron that can categorize inputs consisting of two numeric values.
- By James McCaffrey
- 04/16/2013
Microsoft hopes to compete more directly with tablets like the iPad Mini and Kindle Fire.
Eric Vogel covers how to capture a photo in a Windows Store App by using the MediaCapture API.
Peter Vogel compares both of the Microsoft dependency injection managers/inversion of control containers and comes up with a decision tree for picking the correct one.
The Rx library utilizes the power of LINQ to make difficult asynchronous problems simple.
- By Mark Michaelis, Allen Greaves
- 04/10/2013
Can Microsoft successfully straddle the fence between Windows desktop and the mobile app age? And what should you do about it?
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 04/09/2013
Syncfusion Essential Studio for ASP.NET MVC includes more than four-dozen controls, half-a-dozen templates and several utilities, all of them useful. Documentation is lacking, though.
Documenting your code is a critical part of development, but too many developers pay too little attention to proper commenting. C++ devs have a tool that can help.
The framework is built on top of jQuery.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/03/2013
Work item tagging allows you to add searchable "keywords" to individual work items in TFS.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 04/01/2013