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
Microsoft releases Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 alpha.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 03/22/2013
Learn how to play multimedia files with the Windows Runtime media API.
Use the open source Nancy Web framework to expose a Web-based configuration UI for a Windows service.
- By Patrick Steele
- 03/20/2013
Integrating your .NET line-of-business applications with SharePoint is easy to do and allows you to transfer a ton of work from your desk to your users' desks.
James McCaffrey presents one of the basic building blocks of a neural network.
- By James McCaffrey
- 03/15/2013
Because the mobile platform has come later in the history of computing, developers have gotten in the habit of redesigning desktop applications for the handheld device. Peter Vogel thinks developers have that backward, and that the UI design process shows the way out.
Windows 8 tablets are expected to perform much better than their Windows RT counterparts.
Microsoft needs to consider adding WebKit to Internet Explorer, or it could suffer painful consequences.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 03/06/2013
Microsoft recently released Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, a downloadable suite for creating apps for Office and SharePoint.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 03/04/2013
SQL Bulk Insert has been tuned over the years to work well with the Microsoft .NET Framework. This tutorial shows you how to take advantage of its power.
- By Erik Bartlow
- 03/01/2013
No database for your Windows Store app? No problem -- SQLite to the rescue!
Peter Vogel returns to creating a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) router that loosely couple services with their clients. But this time he uses XML to configure his router rather than doing it in code.
A new IDE, Xamarin Studio, is also part of the release.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 02/20/2013