All of ASP.NET's security/membership support boils down to generating a cookie that allows the user access to your site's folders.
Visual Studio Async is a powerful development framework, but it's important to understand how it works to avoid performance hits.
- By Patrick Steele
- 08/02/2012
See how lambda expressions enhance a common programming scenario.
If your app requires the creation and manipulation of combinations of objects, the BigInteger structure in the Microsoft .NET Framework can offer huge advantages to combination functions.
- By James McCaffrey
- 08/01/2012
If you're building Windows Phone apps with the limited toolkit that comes with the Microsoft SDK, you'll appreciate this tool suite.
Windows Presentation Foundation with Prism and Unity makes assembling applications at runtime from loosely coupled Modules easy -- provided you don't have competing Modules and don't need to communicate between them. Here's how to solve those two problems.
Learn how to automate the WebBrowser control to display and customize the way Web content appears in your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/01/2012
How to use lock screen badge and tile notifications in your Windows 8 application.
This Microsoft tool can be a real time-saver.
This year's developer conference is scheduled to take place at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Wash., just days after Windows 8 ships.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 07/25/2012
How to disable Expression Blend design time data at runtime.
- By Nick Randolph
- 07/23/2012
There are two strategies that you can follow in pulling together the modules that make up your WPF composable application: Central Control and Distributed Control. Hereโs how to implement both of them.
Live Tiles are images that update a pinned tile (icon) on the start screen of Windows Phone. They're used to offer updates to a user browsing the start screen, without having to open the application completely.
The operating system will release to manufacturing in August.
Team Foundation Service takes what's good about TFS and cloud-enables it.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 07/18/2012
How to separate complex object construction from its representation using the Builder design pattern in C#.
If you haven't heard much about Silverlight lately, a few things have popped up in recent weeks that shed some light on Microsoft's vision for the technology and how to move forward.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 07/13/2012
C++ does things differently than C# or Visual Basic, especially when it comes to class construction. Take this tour to learn about the differences.
WPF with Prism and Unity allow you to create loosely-coupled applications that assemble themselves at run time. Here's how Prism and Unity allow you to dynamically integrate business logic into your application.
There's no way to tell just by looking at a list whether the list supports multiple or single selections.