This tutorial demonstrates how to give users more power with the ability to customize live tiles in Metro style apps.
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 Windows Communication Foundation 4.5 has lots of little improvements, the ASP.NET Web API is a very big change. You'll probably end up taking advantage of both, so here's what's in the pipeline for you.
Time is causing Windows to evolve, but those changes offer new opportunities for app developers.
How to implement an undo/redo system using the Command pattern in the .NET Framework.
Migrating a photo-sharing Windows Phone application to run under Windows 8.
- By Nick Randolph
- 04/16/2012
In Part 1 of this series, Eric Vogel walks you through a software design pattern that is commonly used to handle UI interactions.
External templates allow you to reduce the code in your main HTML page, and reuse it in multiple places.
By overriding templates, you can modify the look and feel of the ListBox without changing the underlying behavior.
- By Nick Randolph
- 04/01/2012
If you want to customize the SharePoint 2010 and Office 365 Ribbon, the Add-in Express Ribbon Designer eases UI development in the cloud.
WPF provides the richest environment for developers to incorporate standalone validation classes into their user interfaces—and for business object developers to support an application's user interface.
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 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.
Readers react to a column discussing the future of Silverlight.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 03/01/2012
WPF makes it very easy to load non-executable resources at run time -- including a complete UI in XAML. Here's how to leverage that functionality to create applications that you can customize without recompiling.