Joe Kunk sifts through the Windows 8 announcements at BUILD and offers advice on next steps.
How to use global lists in work item type definitions.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 10/21/2011
The new Windows Runtime integrates beautifully with the .NET Framework. Building this app will demonstrate just how well.
If you want to call a service you can—but the service can't call you back. WebSockets offers the potential for real, two way communications -- and it's as simple as calling a Web Service.
Chocolatey is a powerful installation program for open-source software.
Rather than try to ensure that he's getting the right config file for his production and test systems, Peter Vogel lets the application configure itself, using the Managed Extensibility Framework to enable automatic selection of the right connection string
The fixes are part of an eight-release "Patch Tuesday" event next week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/07/2011
Peter Vogel explains why adding associations to Entity Framework navigations helps you avoid using Joins.
The ASP.NET DataViews are powerful tools when coupled with a DataSource. But you can skip the DataSource and use the DataViews to handle displaying and updating any collection of objects you want, with a few lines of code.
Windows 8, unveiled in September, will change the way Microsoft-focused developers build applications.
- By Kathleen Richards, Keith Ward
- 10/04/2011
Why was F# invented? What are its best -- and worst -- uses?
Use Inversion of Control to decouple views and viewmodels in WPF.
- By Patrick Steele
- 10/01/2011
IComparable and IComparer sound the same and work in similar ways, but there are important differences you need to know.
- By James McCaffrey
- 10/01/2011
If you start "thinking in LINQ" you'll get more done with less code, and what you write will be simpler than using SQL.
Isolator .NET simplifies your unit testing by providing a flexible and convenient way to eliminate dependencies between objects.
HTML5 is a key part of Windows 8, and web development, going forward. This series will show you how to build great HTML5 applications.
- By Brandon Satrom
- 09/26/2011
Peter Vogel introduces you to the new dynamic event model for JavaScript that's available in all the contemporary browsers.
Mickey Gousset dives into modifying the states and transitions of a work item.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 09/23/2011
NServiceBus can help you create more reliable .NET services. It may not be as "free" as it appears, though.
The number of built-in Activities that you can use to create a service that handles a long running service is small. Fortunately, it's easy to add additional Activities that wrap up business logic.