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.
If you're building Windows Presentation Foundation applications that will change over time or have some combination of complex workflows, rich user interaction, and significant presentation or business logic, Microsoft recommends that you add Prism and Unity to your toolkit. That's good advice.
Microsoft has cooked up a feast of value-added big data cloud apps featuring Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive and Pig, as well as free apps and utilities for numerical analysis, publishing data sets, data encryption, uploading files to SQL Azure and blobs.
- By Roger Jennings
- 07/01/2012
"Metro" is the term for apps running on Windows 8/ARM. But what does it mean in terms of design?
- By Mark Michaelis
- 06/30/2012
Accessing a customer relationship management system with a custom .NET application can add important functionality.
A skunkworks project by Xamarin, the developers of Mono for Android and Mono Touch, machine-translated millions of lines of Java in Android to C#.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/27/2012
It's time to stop thinking of "design" as a dirty word, and UI as the sole domain of the folks at the other end of the cubicle farm.
The Gizmox Enterprise Mobile development package is a clever -- perhaps brilliant -- hack that lets you create mobile Web-based applications in a Windows Forms-like IDE.
The latest version of Mono for Android includes a long-awaited design surface. Learn how it works.
- By Wallace McClure
- 06/26/2012
How to schedule live tile and badge updates in a Windows 8 application.
Using Windows Phone's Map control and displaying multiple points using data binding.
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/22/2012
Peter pays a final visit to the WCF 4.5 WebSockets implementation to take advantage of the WebSocketService class and build a service in six lines of code (not counting configuration and client-side code, of course).
At present, the tool only repairs issues with .NET Framework 4.0.
Windows Phone 8, expected later this year, will introduce a development model based on C++/C and DirectX to facilitate code sharing with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/20/2012