ASP.NET 4 upgrades the support for detecting browser capabilities with profiles for the latest mobile browsers. The good news is that you can use that new information with older versions of ASP.NET.
Adobe's about-face appears motivated by the explosion of mobile computing.
Microsoft's BUILD announcements about Windows 8 and other technologies are a break from the past.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 11/01/2011
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.
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
Joe Kunk sifts through the Windows 8 announcements at BUILD and offers advice on next steps.
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.
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
Learn MVVM fundamentals by building this simple Twitter app.
Windows 8, unveiled in September, will change the way Microsoft-focused developers build applications.
- By Kathleen Richards, Keith Ward
- 10/04/2011
Visual Studio readers sound off on HTML5; some love it, others, well...
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 10/01/2011
Windows 8 has great built-in animations, which can draw users deeper into your app.