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.
The Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern is for more than just Microsoft .NET Framework projects. Find out how to apply it to Android development through its open source counterpart, MvvmCross.
- By Greg Shackles
- 02/02/2013
Squashing this bug required out-of-the-box thinking, and some Disassembly magic.
- By Boris Eligulashvili
- 02/01/2013
For the first time, Git support and integration are baked in.
Eric Vogel covers how to create a real-time Web data entry form with ASP.NET MVC, KnockOutJS and SignalR.
A meta-program is "executed" as the result of template instantiation (therefore, before compiled code is produced). Meta-program results are then compiled and merged into object code, including any back-end optimization.
In the first installment of app-building with SignalR, learn how to build a real-time chat application.
The contest was based on the growth in the number of searches from the previous year.