JavaScript has been part of the Microsoft technology stable since the 1990s, and its prominence in the next wave of Microsoft products is huge.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 08/31/2012
Adding visual states and animation to your Listboxes can juice up your Windows Phone app.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/27/2012
Office 2013 will provide full support for both variants of Open XML.
Secondary Live Tiles enable an application to utilize both sides of a tile, delivering twice the information.
How to use a template selector to dynamically select which item template to use for each list item.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/06/2012
FlipView, ListView and GridView are new controls for Windows 8 Metro-style applications. They'll become key tools for building great-looking UIs.
- By Michael Crump
- 08/03/2012
If you're building Windows Phone apps with the limited toolkit that comes with the Microsoft SDK, you'll appreciate this tool suite.
Windows Presentation Foundation with Prism and Unity makes assembling applications at runtime from loosely coupled Modules easy -- provided you don't have competing Modules and don't need to communicate between them. Here's how to solve those two problems.
If you're building Windows Presentation Foundation applications that will change over time or have some combination of complex workflows, rich user interaction, and significant presentation or business logic, Microsoft recommends that you add Prism and Unity to your toolkit. That's good advice.
The latest version of Mono for Android includes a long-awaited design surface. Learn how it works.
- By Wallace McClure
- 06/26/2012
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).
ASP.NET Web API allows you to write a service once and provide different output formats with little effort on the developer's side.
When most people think of location, they assume this information comes from a GPS module. While this is true, Windows Phone also has support for determining location based on cell tower location and WiFi networks.
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/11/2012