The new "Apps for Office" model allows developers to build add-ins for Office that are implemented with HTML5 and JavaScript.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 10/01/2012
Microsoft's Build show is just around the corner, and developers need to know the future of Windows 8.
If you want the flexibility to work with almost any e-mail system -- on the client or the server -- then Aspose.Email is probably your solution.
Get a preview of the upcoming conference in this issue.
How to implement a custom Task Parallel Dataflow block.
The difference between Structs and Classes isn't about data vs. code: it's about what happens when you move the data around. And sometimes you want a Struct, not a Class.
In Part 2 of this three-part series on dataflow programming with the Task Parallel Library, Eric Vogel shows you how to create a Windows 8 application that uses a composite parallel data flow.
RAII, or "Resource Acquisition Is Initialization", has become a standard C++ coding practice. Here's why.
Traditional software company Adage Technologies adapts to the sea change that is Windows 8.
Save yourself some work by using templates in Visual Studio.
How do we as developers present data to a user? In Android, we use the ListView in its various forms.
- By Wallace McClure
- 09/14/2012
With more than 600,000 downloads of Visual Studio 2012 in a less than 4 weeks, the new IDE has the fastest download rate in the product's history.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/12/2012
Develop and test in a WCF Service Library project while hosting your application in an ASP.NET project.
TFS 2012 has improved on the team concept to create logical teams, or groups, of members for different projects.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 09/11/2012
Peter returns to the ASP.NET Web API in Visual Studio 2012 to use it with ASP.NET. And this time, he's moving complete objects from the client up to the server in an HTTP POST.
The major challenge when working with permutations is that the factorial function gets very, very large very, very quickly. The BigInteger data type was introduced in the .NET Framework 4.0; it enables the writing of effective permutation code.
- By James McCaffrey
- 09/04/2012
If you're an experienced Web developer, you'll love the HTML5/JavaScript/CSS3 options provided by Visual Studio 2012. Here's a step-by-step guide to getting started.
- By Michael Crump
- 09/02/2012
The Silverlight 5 PivotViewer allows you to create unique and interactive data visualizations for your users. Find out how to effectively use this technology and incorporate semantic zoom into your data collections.
- By Tony Champion
- 09/02/2012
In a recent blog post, "Is Agile Really a 'Developer Rebellion Against Unwanted Tasks'?", Data Driver blogger David Ramel wrote about the mixed reaction from developers to his article about a controversial report on Agile software development from analyst firm Voke Inc.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 09/01/2012
Windows Communication Foundation routing lets you decouple your service consumers and providers to give you the flexibility to modify and extend your services without disrupting your clients.