A good first impression is critical for an Android app. Learn the principles of Android UI design.
- By Wallace McClure
- 11/01/2011
Windows 8 is an early preview, but has enough of its shape to show XAML developers that their skills are applicable.
The Windows Azure Marketplace has a hidden jewel: a host of free and nearly free databases ready for monetization.
Aspose.Cells gives you Excel-like functionality in your ASP.NET or Windows Forms application.
Microsoft's unveiling of Windows 8 brought back something missing from recent years: excitement.
HTML5 introduces client-side caching for local and session storage. Learn how to boost your app's performance through the new functionality.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 11/01/2011
The readers have spoken, and told us what development tools they can't live without.
- By Kathleen Richards, Keith Ward
- 11/01/2011
Joe Kunk sifts through the Windows 8 announcements at BUILD and offers advice on next steps.
How to use global lists in work item type definitions.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 10/21/2011
The new Windows Runtime integrates beautifully with the .NET Framework. Building this app will demonstrate just how well.
If you want to call a service you can—but the service can't call you back. WebSockets offers the potential for real, two way communications -- and it's as simple as calling a Web Service.
Chocolatey is a powerful installation program for open-source software.
Rather than try to ensure that he's getting the right config file for his production and test systems, Peter Vogel lets the application configure itself, using the Managed Extensibility Framework to enable automatic selection of the right connection string
The fixes are part of an eight-release "Patch Tuesday" event next week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/07/2011
Peter Vogel explains why adding associations to Entity Framework navigations helps you avoid using Joins.
The ASP.NET DataViews are powerful tools when coupled with a DataSource. But you can skip the DataSource and use the DataViews to handle displaying and updating any collection of objects you want, with a few lines of code.
Windows 8, unveiled in September, will change the way Microsoft-focused developers build applications.
- By Kathleen Richards, Keith Ward
- 10/04/2011
Why was F# invented? What are its best -- and worst -- uses?
Use Inversion of Control to decouple views and viewmodels in WPF.
- By Patrick Steele
- 10/01/2011
IComparable and IComparer sound the same and work in similar ways, but there are important differences you need to know.
- By James McCaffrey
- 10/01/2011