If you haven't checked out CSS, understanding the most often used core selectors is a good place to start.
The Gizmox Enterprise Mobile development package is a clever -- perhaps brilliant -- hack that lets you create mobile Web-based applications in a Windows Forms-like IDE.
How to schedule live tile and badge updates in a Windows 8 application.
Using Windows Phone's Map control and displaying multiple points using data binding.
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/22/2012
Peter pays a final visit to the WCF 4.5 WebSockets implementation to take advantage of the WebSocketService class and build a service in six lines of code (not counting configuration and client-side code, of course).
Windows Phone 8, expected later this year, will introduce a development model based on C++/C and DirectX to facilitate code sharing with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/20/2012
ASP.NET Web API allows you to write a service once and provide different output formats with little effort on the developer's side.
New combined company will have more than 850 employees.
Create a JavaScript client that works with a WCF 4.5 WebSockets service to receive continuous, ongoing updates from the service.
PhoneGap is used for building mobile applications across a range of devices with JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3. Learn how to use PhoneGap to build a Windows Phone application that can be easily ported to another phone.
- By Michael Crump
- 06/04/2012
The Microsoft JavaScript Upshot library provides a simplified API for retrieving data from the server and caching it at the client for reuse. Coupled with Knockout, the two JavaScript libraries form the pillars of the Microsoft client-side programming model.
The Altova MissionKit is a bundle of great tools that work together, but unlike a control suite, the cost savings may not add up for some shops.
While we often talk of how we can leverage OSS to deliver a higher-quality product, rarely do we talk about how we can give back to the OSS community.
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