Thinking in terms of layers or tiers really isn't much help to you. Stop doing it: The single responsibility principle and design patterns are all you really need.
Microsoft's newest CEO seems to understand the challenges Microsoft faces, and is positioning the company to re-assert its preeminent place in the industry.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 06/04/2014
The API is for the HTML Client.
A cornucopia of code editing and collaboration software that lets you use the same familiar tools no matter what computer you're working on.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 05/21/2014
One Microsoft employee calls it a "business decision" -- and a bad one at that.
Backbone is a popular library for creating MVC/MVVM-like applications in your client. Here's an introduction to Backbone and some best practices for creating a Single-Page Application with TypeScript.
Many developers are unhappy that future releases won't be supported on Visual Studio 2012 and earlier.
Giving a keynote presentation at the VSLive! conference this week, noted speaker Billy Hollis decried the "fixation" on unit testing, among other topics.
Soon, devs will even be able to build a Windows Phone app on OS X.
Knockout custom binding handlers can help simplify integration with third-party JavaScript libraries. Here's how.
- By Patrick Steele
- 04/30/2014
Kendo UI Core includes the entire mobile framework.
TypeScript provides native support both for organizing your application's client-side code into a set of modules, and for freeing you from having to manage the resulting script tags.
The first update in more than a year includes support for new Web frameworks.
The tools are open source and include debugging support.
It's available as part of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC, and as a standalone download.