Den Delimarsky04/25/13
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Den Delimarsky describes the implementation of a basic authentication mechanism for Windows Phone applications based on Azure Mobile Services.
Robert Maclean04/25/13
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Robert MacLean summarizes his presentation list at TechEd Africa 2013. This year he covered the development of Windows Store apps.
Mike Hadlow04/24/13
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Mike showcases a way to properly terminate a console application, so that the user is able to exit with the help of the stock Windows cancel command.
Greg Duncan04/23/13
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With .NET 4.5, the Task Parallel Library team went another step ahead and built a little known library called Parallel Dataflow Library. This article explains why as a .NET developer, you must know about this powerful library.
Greg Duncan04/21/13
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There’s a lot of good content on IntelliTrace and we’ve grabbed a few links here to have in one place. If you’ve got some time and want to get to know more about IntelliTrace in Visual Studio these are great places to go.
Greg Duncan04/21/13
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We frequently get questions asking if the PowerShell ISE supports a feature that it doesn’t. For example, variable watch windows, function browsers, or “find all matches in the current document”.
Erik Ejlskov Jensen04/20/13
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It can sometimes by useful to find out if SQL Server Compact is available on a system, for example in installers and if your application supports several database products.
Den Delimarsky04/19/13
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If you ever decide that the stock MessageBox is not enough, you can always experiment with creating your own control. Here is how.
Sasha Goldshtein04/19/13
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Last time around, we explored the user interface and the server script for our apartment listings application. Today we'll see how to add authentication to the mix, and limit certain operations only to authenticated users.
Greg Duncan04/18/13
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The Boolean to Visibility Converter is as close you’re going to get to bread and button in the XAML frameworks. You need it in almost every app and almost every framework has one, even the Windows 8 project templates come with one.
Douglas Rathbone04/17/13
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When maintaining applications built in ways that make unit testing them high friction, difficult or down right impossible, we often turn to integration tests or no tests at all. Poking around the outside of your logic to see that the outcomes our code produces is often fiddly, brittle and in most cases so time consuming it just doesn’t happen.
G. Andrew Duthie04/16/13
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There are a couple of features in Windows Azure Mobile Services (hereafter, WAMS or Mobile Services) that make it well-suited for building back-ends for mobile apps (including Windows Store apps), and provide significant advantages in getting your app working quickly, and providing additional needed services.
Greg Duncan04/15/13
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The ALM team shipped a new exciting project, focused on IntelliTrace, under the Visual Studio Test Tooling Guidance umbrella. This release supplements the Test Tooling Guide with the DevOps end-end scenario, giving you access to ALM end to end labs and guidance that include bug resolution using IntelliTrace.
Sasha Goldshtein04/14/13
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In the previous installment, we saw the general UI of the application. We'll now turn to see how that UI was implemented on all four platforms. If you're looking for a quick start or documentation on Mobile Services, you should take a look at the Windows Azure Mobile Developer Center.
Den Delimarsky04/12/13
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A quick tip on why innerText might be tricky when applied in a cross-browser context and a demonstration of this fact.
Jonas Gauffin04/12/13
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If you have an XML file which is shipped with your product, for instance an product list, you expect it to exist. If it doesn’t, there is not much you can do about it. Hence something exceptional has happened and it needs to be handled.
Jeremy Likness04/11/13
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The great thing about design-time data is that the developer can create it programmatically when needed or the designer can generate some through Blend.
Greg Duncan04/10/13
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Visual Studio Updates are a mechanism used to provide ongoing value throughout the year to the Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server customers. These updates will provide features to support the latest software trends in the market, and also offer an easy way to deploy bug fixes.
Sarfraz Khan04/09/13
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In this post i will quickly explain how can we interact with Twitter API using .Net code.
Greg Duncan04/09/13
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LinqPad is an absolutely terrific tool, which allows you to write complex C# without Visual Studio. To be able to answer our original Web API hosting question, we need to understand what LinqPad does under the hood.
G. Andrew Duthie04/08/13
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In this issue, some upcoming opportunities to learn more about app and game development for the Windows Store.
Filip Ekberg04/07/13
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The punch line of Raygun is quoted above, a tool that makes error handling awesome. Let’s clear something up right before we take a look at Raygun , there are multiple providers supplied for Raygun: JavaScript, .NET, Java, PHP and Cold Fusion. Didn’t find the language you work with? Don’t worry, there’s a REST API for you RESTafarians!
Greg Duncan04/06/13
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A phenomenon described by the term ‘webkit monoculture’ is causing quite some concern in the web development community. A lot of web developers are basically coding for webkit and webkit only, or more specifically Safari on IOS. HTML5 and standards are great, but certain parts of the web development stack are moving back to a ‘works on my environment’ status that we just were getting rid of.
Lohith Nagaraj04/05/13
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In August 2012 Microsoft released .NET framework version 4.5 and lot of goodies came along with that. One such area of ASP.NET which got the goodies is WebForms technology.
Gil Fink04/04/13
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When we build web apps, we use JavaScript to manipulate the DOM and to update the web pages we build. One of the things that we should be aware of is browser reflows.
