Microsoft recently released Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, a downloadable suite for creating apps for Office and SharePoint.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 03/04/2013
Peter Vogel returns to creating a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) router that loosely couple services with their clients. But this time he uses XML to configure his router rather than doing it in code.
Building and debugging Web-based applications with Chrome Developer Tools is easier than you might think.
- By Patrick Steele
- 02/08/2013
The tool aims to reduce testing time, leaving more time for development.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 02/06/2013
Whether you're new to JavaScript or well-versed in all it has to offer, TypeScript is a compelling option.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 02/05/2013
jQuery support for the new HTML5 data attributes may not be everything a developer could want -- but it's very close. And, more important, it's the perfect solution for handling transactional data.
Reducing application development costs, and moving applications to the cloud have become less of a priority for the coming year, according to the survey.
The contest was based on the growth in the number of searches from the previous year.
Developers continue to show gains in salary and have better job security than most others, according to Visual Studio Magazine's second-annual salary survey.
Although Windows 8 and Windows Phone share the same core, building an app for both isn't as easy as you might think.
- By Nick Randolph
- 01/05/2013
What's next on the data frontier? Microsoft will take us into the world of in-memory transactional databases and big data. And if you know how to write code and queries against SQL Server, then you already have the necessary skills to play there.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 01/02/2013
The overall IT cost to support multiple browsers is 20 percent higher, according to the report.
Learn lessons about your own code through the errors committed by other developers.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 12/04/2012
Every Silverlight developer needs to know these differences between Silverlight and the Windows Runtime before starting on a WinRT app.
- By Michael Crump
- 12/04/2012
The first native Windows 8 controls suite for creating Windows Store apps fills key gaps in the Visual Studio XAML and HTML5/JavaScript toolbox.