.NET Framework


Multiple Item Templates in Windows Phone

How to use a template selector to dynamically select which item template to use for each list item.

Visual Studio 2012, .NET Framework 4.5 Set for Release Aug. 15

The official launch is coming Sept. 12

New Views on Windows 8 Metro-Style Development

FlipView, ListView and GridView are new controls for Windows 8 Metro-style applications. They'll become key tools for building great-looking UIs.

ASP.NET: Build Your Own Security Framework with SetAuthCookie

All of ASP.NET's security/membership support boils down to generating a cookie that allows the user access to your site's folders.

Performance Tips for Asynchronous Development in C#

Visual Studio Async is a powerful development framework, but it's important to understand how it works to avoid performance hits.

Tighten up Your Visual Basic Code with Lambda Expressions

See how lambda expressions enhance a common programming scenario.

Improved Combinations with the BigInteger Data Type

If your app requires the creation and manipulation of combinations of objects, the BigInteger structure in the Microsoft .NET Framework can offer huge advantages to combination functions.

Product Review: Infragistics NetAdvantage

If you're building Windows Phone apps with the limited toolkit that comes with the Microsoft SDK, you'll appreciate this tool suite.

Managing WPF and Prism Modules

Windows Presentation Foundation with Prism and Unity makes assembling applications at runtime from loosely coupled Modules easy -- provided you don't have competing Modules and don't need to communicate between them. Here's how to solve those two problems.

Better Windows Phone Web Browsing

Learn how to automate the WebBrowser control to display and customize the way Web content appears in your Windows Phone application.

Advanced Live Tiles, Part 3: Lock Screens

How to use lock screen badge and tile notifications in your Windows 8 application.

Free Tool: LibCheck to Find the Differences in DLLs

This Microsoft tool can be a real time-saver.

Build 2012 Slated for Week After Windows 8 Release

This year's developer conference is scheduled to take place at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Wash., just days after Windows 8 ships.

Disabling Design Time Data in a Windows Phone Application

How to disable Expression Blend design time data at runtime.

Integrating Services into a WPF Composable Application

There are two strategies that you can follow in pulling together the modules that make up your WPF composable application: Central Control and Distributed Control. Here’s how to implement both of them.

A Live Tiles Tutorial

Live Tiles are images that update a pinned tile (icon) on the start screen of Windows Phone. They're used to offer updates to a user browsing the start screen, without having to open the application completely.

Windows 8 Set to Debut October 26

The operating system will release to manufacturing in August.

TFS Heads to the Clouds

Team Foundation Service takes what's good about TFS and cloud-enables it.

The Builder Pattern in .NET

How to separate complex object construction from its representation using the Builder design pattern in C#.

Silverlight Transitions Continue for Developers and Microsoft

If you haven't heard much about Silverlight lately, a few things have popped up in recent weeks that shed some light on Microsoft's vision for the technology and how to move forward.

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