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
CFO Peter Klein took questions at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco.
One of the most significant updates is the introduction of a convention-based extension model, in which you can configure a set of naming conventions to allow MEF parts to be easily picked up by your application.
Another aspect of Blue could be a kernel update that eases interoperability between Windows 8/Windows RT apps and Windows Phone apps.
Entropy Minimization is a new clustering algorithm that works with both categorical and numeric data, and scales well to extremely large data sets.
- By James McCaffrey
- 02/09/2013
Mickey Gousset introduces you to unit testing SharePoint 2010 applications using the SharePoint Emulators.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 02/08/2013
Possible products include a Windows 8/RT interim release, and a SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse update.
Implementing design patterns in the Microsoft .NET Framework isn't all that hard to do; understanding what each pattern does for you and picking which one to use is the real issue.