At its Build development conference in Anaheim, Calif., this week, Microsoft has pulled back the curtain on its new operating system, code-named "Windows 8."
Team Foundation Server 2010 includes process templates. Learn how to customize work item type templates for a smoother workflow.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 09/09/2011
Lazy Loading is a programming pattern useful for resource-intensive objects.
The technologies bundled as HTML5 finally support what developers have been trying to get HTML to do for decades.
Was "Calvin code" genius or tomfoolery?
Making the right runtime design decisions can help -- or harm -- your program.
Build a Web site using MVC 3 and the Razor View Engine.
High-transaction environments can use distributed caching to boost performance without major code changes.
Readers share opinions on LightSwitch, Team Foundation Server and more.
Infragistics provides a toolkit for creating data-driven applications using client-side code that accesses a variety of data sources, both in the page and back on the client.
Using Windows Phone 7 data binding to create customized lists.
- By Nick Randolph
- 09/01/2011
Keith Ward discusses his new position, and has questions for Microsoft's upcoming BUILD conference.
Aspect Oriented Programming is great for handling cross-cutting concerns such as logging, security, and threading.
Developers increasingly prefer cloud-based development tooling.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/17/2011
Agile management tools are maturing as the market defines its needs.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/17/2011
Peter Vogel helps you understand the benefits of dynamic loading at runtime.
Nick Randolph walks through how to define, change and work with orientation within your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/09/2011
On VB columnist Joe Kunk continues his examination of XML comments by extending the XML comment vocabulary with additional default tags in Visual Basic and showing how to process the resulting XML file into API-style reference documentation using the SandCastle Help File Builder.
This article introduces the TAP and the associated .NET language changes that streamline asynchronous programming and extend the multithreading enhancements in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 08/02/2011
Not all business operations finish in seconds. Using Windows Communication Foundation you can still create -- as a single project -- an application that supports business services that take hours (or days or weeks or months) to complete.