Web Development


HTTP Basics for REST-Based App Development

Go inside the protocol that's the backbone for today's modern, cloud-based applications.

JavaScript Unit Testing with Visual Studio

Mark Michaelis walks you through the Visual Studio tooling and project setup you'll need to get the most out of your JavaScript unit testing.

TypeScript 0.9.5 Released

It's the last version before the release candidate of the full 1.0 version comes out.

Binding a TypeScript ViewModel to HTML Using Knockout

It's great building objects in TypeScript, but it isn't much good unless you can tie those objects into a Web page. Here's how to integrate TypeScript with Knockout (and a warning about where test driven development seems to stop).

Next Windows Browser, IE 11, Released

The WebGL protocol is supported for creating two- and three-dimensional graphics.

Snazz Up Your MVC Apps with Twitter Bootstrap: A Get-Started Guide

Creating Web applications with a consistent interface can be time-consuming. Using Twitter Bootstrap, you can quickly scaffold out nice-looking Web applications. Here's how.

Better Enterprise Data Grids with Backgrid

Use Backbone & Backgrid to rejuvenate (or rescue) a data grid that's been pushed well beyond its original design.

Top 7 Reasons To Love CoffeeScript

Learn why more and more C# developers are turning to CoffeeScript to build their JavaScript-based Web applications.

Calling Web Services with TypeScript

Peter starts integrating a TypeScript client-side object with a server-side Web API service. Along the way, he looks at method overloading (not good), making JSON calls (good), testing asynchronous methods in Visual Studio (mostly good) and being a "TypeScript programmer."

Microsoft Collaborates on Cloud-Based Browser Testing Tool

BrowserSwarm tests all major JavaScript frameworks for errors.

Essential Knockout.js, Part 2: Best Practices and More

The first installment discussed what Knockout.js is, why and how it evolved, and how it fits into Web development. This month, the discussion dives into best practices for Knockout, extending it and creating custom bindings.

Updated: Cloud-Based iOS and Android Tool Gets Visual Studio Extension

Telerik's Icenium compiles HTML/JavaScript/CSS programs into their iOS and Android counterparts.

Building and Testing a Web API Service

As part of building a client-side application in a test-driven way and using TypeScript, Peter creates a Web API service and writes a test that proves he can access it from JavaScript code -- though there are some "wrinkles" in making this work. Along the way, he has an insight about TypeScript versus other, first-class .NET languages.

Study: 85 Percent of Windows Developers Are Asked to Go Mobile

Although there's a strong move in the direction of mobile, almost no one is giving up traditional desktop development.

Building and Testing a View Model in TypeScript

Peter Vogel continues to build out a TypeScript project by defining a view model. Along the way he looks at defining interfaces, setting up constructors, creating optional parameters and initializing arrays in TypeScript.

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