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.
Microsoft released the Windows Phone 8 developer tools on Tuesday as the company welcomed developers to its Redmond campus to dive deeper into its Windows 8 development platforms.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/31/2012
Upgrades to the development suite include CoreCLR and async programming.
Gartner predictions are at odds with others who think the new platform will win converts.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/29/2012
Think of wcfstorm-lite as the Visual Studio WCF Test Client on steroids.
FileTables, a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012, is a unique table that reflects metadata of files in a specified folder.
I know enough not to go down to the Immediate Window and type ? variablename to get the value of a variable.
In Part 2 of this series, Eric Vogel covers how to implement authentication and basic authorization with an Azure Mobile Service-backed Windows Store application.