Learn how to write both code and tests that can be shared across multiple platforms.
- By Greg Shackles
- 08/26/2013
In Part 2 of his column, Mickey Gousset dives deeper into the Test Explorer window.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 08/26/2013
ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 08/16/2013
The new Apple iOS stops looking like anything but a computer's UI -- but do you care?
The Observer Pattern is the foundation of Model View Controller (MVC) development. In this article, you'll learn how to use it by building a simple email application.
Understanding how back-propagation works will enable you to use neural network tools more effectively.
- By James McCaffrey
- 08/13/2013
Get powerful, client-side data binding in JavaScript using Knockout.
- By Patrick Steele
- 08/12/2013
Windows Phone tooling is more advanced than that for Windows 8. But savvy developers can use that to their advantage when building Windows Store apps.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/12/2013
Microsoft is making a big bet that eliminating traditional divisional boundaries will help it be more efficient and build better products. It had better be right.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 08/08/2013
Learn how to add spell checking to your applications.
Peter Vogel responds to the furor about his contention that developers do too much code commenting. He says that documenting code, while it may be necessary, isn't valuable.
Test-driven development has been enhanced with Visual Studio 2012; learn how to use this powerful tool by building a class library for math functions.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 07/29/2013
Building your applications so that each part does just one job well makes everything easier. Peter Vogel applies that approach to a Windows Forms app and, in addition to getting it to work, creates a more responsive application.
Learn how to use asynchronous controller actions in ASP.NET MVC 4 by building a simple Contacts Manager app.
James McCaffrey explains how to normalize and encode neural network data from a developer's point of view.
- By James McCaffrey
- 07/22/2013
Google has replaced MapView with MapFragment for adding mapping and location in Android. Learn what the new API can do, and how to use it.
- By Wallace McClure
- 07/18/2013
The latest version of TypeScript adds generics but there's more in the package than that. Peter looks at what's new.
Chain of Responsibility decouples the sender of a request from the receiver by allowing one or many handler objects to handle the request.
Learn how Knockout can help you tame the morass of JavaScript and HTML programming and reduce the time spent writing boilerplate code.
- By Kelly Adams, Mark Michaelis
- 07/08/2013
Microsoft's real value proposition is that it has a super-franchise made up of smaller constituent franchises.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 07/07/2013