In the first installment of Practical JavaScript, Peter Vogel describes how a client-side skeptic evolved into a JavaScript fan thanks to several tools and a book. He also shares why he's concerned about TypeScript and where he's going to take this .NET-oriented JavaScript column over the next few months.
Syncfusion Essential Studio for ASP.NET MVC includes more than four-dozen controls, half-a-dozen templates and several utilities, all of them useful. Documentation is lacking, though.
The framework is built on top of jQuery.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/03/2013
CSS3 media queries are the key to making responsive design work.
- By Rodrigo Munoz
- 04/01/2013
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
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.
Building and debugging Web-based applications with Chrome Developer Tools is easier than you might think.
- By Patrick Steele
- 02/08/2013
The tool aims to reduce testing time, leaving more time for development.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 02/06/2013
Whether you're new to JavaScript or well-versed in all it has to offer, TypeScript is a compelling option.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 02/05/2013
jQuery support for the new HTML5 data attributes may not be everything a developer could want -- but it's very close. And, more important, it's the perfect solution for handling transactional data.
Reducing application development costs, and moving applications to the cloud have become less of a priority for the coming year, according to the survey.
The contest was based on the growth in the number of searches from the previous year.
Developers continue to show gains in salary and have better job security than most others, according to Visual Studio Magazine's second-annual salary survey.
Although Windows 8 and Windows Phone share the same core, building an app for both isn't as easy as you might think.
- By Nick Randolph
- 01/05/2013