.NET and Java developers are perplexed about the indiscreet way C++ discloses private class details. Pimpl (pointer-to-implementation) solves this problem by keeping secrets hidden from peepers.
Nick Randolph looks at the tools that make up the new Windows Phone 8 SDK.
- By Nick Randolph
- 11/28/2012
Learn how Visual Studio 2012 makes exploratory testing quick and easy.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 11/27/2012
Should you wait for Service Pack 1? The new Update model is replacing Service Packs, according to Microsoft.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/26/2012
NetAdvantage for Windows UI offers XAML and HTML/jQuery controls to Windows 8 developers.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/16/2012
Importing a snippet into Visual Studio and then using the snippet is a snap.
Peter finishes up his discussion of using the Fakes Framework with TDD in Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate by looking at mocking properties and why you'd want to pass a shim as parameters.
In Part 3 of this series, Eric Vogel covers how to implement user-level authorization and push notifications using an Azure Mobile Service.
ListViewByQuery is useful for retrieving ListItems to display to your users.
The readers have spoken, the votes tallied. Which products have been chosen as worthy to take home the gold, silver or bronze? Our annual awards celebrate your most valuable tools.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/06/2012
Using shims in Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate lets you easily bypass code—no matter how deeply buried—to test just the parts of your application that you want to test.
A new feature in TFS 2012, Local Workspaces allows edits, renames and deletes to be done locally without any communication to the server.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 11/02/2012
A priority queue assigns a priority to each element. Knowing how to build them is important in solving many coding problems.
- By James McCaffrey
- 11/02/2012
Readers had mixed reactions to "Good UI Design Is No Longer Optional."
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 11/01/2012
MindFusion.Scheduling for WPF can help you create a variety of calendar and time-management apps, if you don't mind writing a little code.
TypeScript is designed to make JavaScript development scalable, something Microsoft clearly needs if it's to use JavaScript in its own work.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 11/01/2012
We're almost at the end of 2012, and it's been an amazing year for Microsoft product releases.
ASP.NET provides a wealth of options for dynamically integrating JavaScript into your client-side pages. And by adding T4 into the mix, you can generate, at runtime, exactly the client-side code that your page needs.
Much emphasis has been placed on the new async capabilities in C# 5.0. However, there are smaller smaller -- but still useful -- features of which you may not be aware.
- By Patrick Steele
- 11/01/2012
The collaboration tool had been in preview mode for a year.