Along with Visual Studio 11, betas of the .NET Framework 4.5 and two versions of Team Foundation Server were released.
Was there confusion at Microsoft's Web-focused show? Sure. But from Papa's Perspective, that wasn't a bad thing.
Eric Vogel covers how to use the Windows 8 local data storage APIs to cache application data.
By responding to potential threats with thoughtfulness, and a zeal to add value, SQL and Big Data could be big business for Redmond.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 02/01/2012
JavaScript libraries help you build powerful, data-driven HTML5 apps.
The latest edition of the control suite for ASP.NET offers almost every kind of control that a developer would need -- with one-third of the controls supporting ASP.NET MVC.
Microsoft axes its Web-focused developer conference, at which major announcements used to be made.
Nick Randolph looks at how you can use a UriMapper to help structure your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 01/12/2012
In WPF and Silverlight,you can separate your UI logic into a set of Command classes that facilitate loose coupling, testable designs, and reusability.
jsFiddle is a free code-sharing tool that allows you to edit, share, execute and debug Web code within a browser.
Eric Vogel walks through a soup-to-nuts demo for building a Metro-style RSS reader.
Visual Basic development in Visual Studio 11 offers asynchronous methods, iterators, call hierarchy, the Global keyword and Windows 8 Metro-based applications.
jqChart for ASP.NET MVC leverages HTML5 to deliver more responsive, scalable charting to the browser -- and throws in an HTML helper for ASP.NET MVC developers.
Readers discuss the December Papa's Perspective column and Andrew Brust's take on the ways Windows 8 will affect Silverlight.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 01/01/2012
Your forms can be built entirely in HTML5, with no JavaScript necessary. Here's how.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 01/01/2012