How to define common XAML resources to improve the consistency of your applications.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/06/2014
After Wayne's employer decided to bring some outsourced code back in house, he discovered that developers in Kerbleckistan were doing some serious innovating in the science of passing parameters.
CTP 1 of the Microsoft development platform package manager introduces a new package source, speeds up performance and adds a debugger console.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/17/2014
Ondrej Balas continues his series on refactoring code for dependency injection, focusing on techniques that make it easier to refactor complex applications.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 07/16/2014
New technology called Apportals aimed at enterprise developers working in healthcare, sales and distributed organizations and requires XAML and C# skills to set up.
MVVM framework for working with Reactive Extensions in the .NET Framework updated to support Universal Windows Phone and Xamarin forms.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/14/2014
Learn how the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK, coupled with Visual Studio, provides the necessary tools to debug, test, polish and publish your application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/02/2014
Learn how to leverage the powerful resource system of Android to support a variety of Android devices and languages.
- By Greg Shackles
- 05/28/2014
It may look like a simple point upgrade, but it isn't. Examine more closely, and you'll see why the latest iteration of Windows Phone is a big deal.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/02/2014
Nick Randolph demonstrates two techniques for using Visual States to change the layout of a Windows Phone User Control.
- By Nick Randolph
- 03/31/2014
If you're using MSMQ to offload work from your Web site, you have a number of ways to pick up those messages, including processing those messages as soon as they turn up.
Sometimes you can improve your application's response time by shunting some activities to offline processing -- sending an e-mail response, for instance. Here's how to use Microsoft Message Queue (available on both your development and production computers) to simplify the process.
The free extension currently works only with Visual Studio 2013.
Nick Randolph connects a Windows Phone application to the cloud to save and retrieve data, then uses a local SQLite database to cache data for offline use.
- By Nick Randolph
- 12/03/2013
An updated Windows 8.1 API created opportunities for new tools.