Time is causing Windows to evolve, but those changes offer new opportunities for app developers.
Visual Studio Magazine Tools Editor Peter Vogel wanted to avoid the raw, uninitialized HTML/HTML5 that users sometimes see in their browsers before JavaScript properly arranges things.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2012
Doc-To-Help continues to provide a single source for a variety of document and help types, including a jQuery format targeted for mobile devices.
Peter looks at Knockout, one of the MVC environments for writing client-side JavaScript, and wonders if we're on the wrong path.
JSLint checks your JavaScript code for issues before running it and waiting for it to blow up.
External templates allow you to reduce the code in your main HTML page, and reuse it in multiple places.
Scott Hanselman, senior program manager in Microsoft's Developer Division, said that the decision wasn't really about open source: "This is about open development."
- By John K. Waters
- 03/28/2012
Major browsers support CSS3 gradients (including Internet Explorer 10), but with different rendering engines, it's still good to have fallbacks.
Many developers are worried about the compatibility of Silverlight with Metro-style applications. This project shows that those fears are overblown.
- By Michael Crump
- 03/01/2012
The Telerik Kendo UI framework for HTML5 apps is an excellent product. But even if you like it, should you buy a set of jQuery plug-ins that you can assemble together for free?
A certain Darwinian evolution is taking place at Microsoft. Some product species are more fit, with better chances for survival. You can understand and work with Microsoft's changes, rather than being passively impacted by them.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 03/01/2012
The office where Peter L. works was abuzz with excitement one morning a few months ago when the familiar, bland corporate art was missing from the wall opposite the elevators.
Along with Visual Studio 11, betas of the .NET Framework 4.5 and two versions of Team Foundation Server were released.
Was there confusion at Microsoft's Web-focused show? Sure. But from Papa's Perspective, that wasn't a bad thing.
Eric Vogel covers how to use the Windows 8 local data storage APIs to cache application data.