In various AngularJS tutorials and documentation, the authors choose to use service or factory but don't explain why you would use one or the other. Few mention that value and constant are also options.

The Microsoft patterns & practices team is responsible for delivering applied engineering guidance that helps  Software architects, developers, and their teams take full advantage of Microsoft’s platform technologies in their  application development project.

The Developer Platform Evangelism team has been engaged with partners that have solutions on instrumentation requiring a very high rate of data ingestion. This Proof of Concept (PoC) is designed with proving the scalability of Windows Azure for processing the data.

There are cases when you have to send a complex object to server side using GET requests. In order to achieve that you would use the URI binding by decorating the controller method parameter  with [FromURI] attribute.  So if you have an object called "Criteria" which is composed from "CriteriaA" and" CriteriaB" properties, your GET request would look like this: http://myapplication/api/getfoobycriteria?CriteriaA=valueA&CriteriaB=valueB.

A JavaScript graph library for analysis and visualisation (compatible with Node.js, jQuery 1.4+, and plain JavaScript)

It’s a wonderful day for a software release. Such a wonderful day, we’re doing two software releases! Today it’s jQuery 1.10.0 and jQuery 2.0.1 making their debut — five years to the day after jQuery 1.2.6 was released.

With the Windows Azure Websites platform-as-a-service (PaaS), which was released as a preview to a general audiance in June last year, PHP applications can be deployed to Azure with as much as a Git push to a remote repository. At the same time Microsoft released a new and much improved PHP SDK, which integrates with all the Azure webservices.

This article dives into the internals on ASP.NET. It walks you through embedding static files inside the compiler assembly file, enabling us to have every static resource in a single file, and thoroughly introduces WebResource.axd and ASP.NET giving a solid foundation for understanding the Oracle Padding attack.

Due to changes introduced in the latest Firefox and Chrome releases we created an updated version of InfiView - version 2.2 InfiView 2.2 is based on Bindows 4.2 and supports the latest current version of all the major browsers (including Internet Explorer 10, Firefox 21, Safari 5.1, and Chrome 27). Customers with an active maintenance plan will get the updated retail version (full) automatically.

Last year we evangelized the use of the LongListSelector control to provide smooth infinite scrolling scenarios. The LongListSelector control is so useful that we decided to enhance it and move it to the SDK for Windows Phone 8. In this post we discuss the improvements we’ve made to the control, and provide a mapping guide for Windows Phone developers who are already using the Windows Phone Toolkit 7.1 version of the LongListSelector.

The cornerstone app architecture for Windows Phone development is the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) design pattern. In this video, Matthias Shapiro demonstrates the basic structure of a Windows Phone MVVM app. He shows how you can build robust and flexible MVVM apps for the phone that take advantage of data binding, commanding, and presentation logic (ViewModel) portability. For more information, see Practical MVVM For Windows Phone on Channel 9.

In Android development, if you have a small collection of key-value pairs that you want to persist from session to session you use the SharedPreferences APIs. In Windows Phone development these key-value pairs are often referred to as Application Settings.

In this article, I'll take an ASP.NET application that uses partial views and convert it to use AJAX calls and some JavaScript templating. This will give me more options for how I can use the application in the future.

Fluent API is a flexible way to define mapping between POCO classes used in Entity Framework Code first. This article demonstrates how to use Fluent API in an ASP.NET MVC application

After a year of working with a large AngularJS project, I thought I’d share a few of the lessons that I learned in the process. Firstly, I love AngularJS. It suits my needs exceedingly well, and I expect it will be my goto for the forseeable future when I need a solid framework for “thick client” single page applications. It’s awesome. The team working on it is world class, the community is fantastic, and it combines a killer combo of functionality for building web apps.

For the past five years, Microsoft has been working with a diverse group of companies to develop the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard. The group of 20+ companies consisted of tech vendors, including Red Hat and VMware, and enterprises like JPMorgan Chase and Credit Suisse. The goal has been to build an open, wire-level protocol standard for messaging that enables easy interoperability between different vendor products. Back in October 2012, the OASIS standards organization announced the approval of AMQP 1.0 as an OASIS Standard and, on the same day, we released a preview implementation of it with Windows Azure Service Bus.

Three months ago we shipped the first preview of the portable HttpClient. Many of you wondered when we would ship the RTM version. Today, we’re happy to announce the first step towards an RTM: We shipped a release candidate (RC) of HttpClient (Microsoft.Net.Http package on NuGet) that includes all the bug fixes since the preview.

Tourist.js is a simple library for creating guided tours through your app. It's better suited to complex, single-page apps than websites. One of our main requirements was the ability to control the interface for each step. For example, a step in the tour might need to open a window or menu to work correctly. Tourist gives you hooks to do this.

In recent days, I've twice found myself explaining the difference between lambdas and closures in C++11, so I figured it was time to write it up. The term "lambda" is short for lambda expression, and a lambda is just that: an expression. As such, it exists only in a program's source code. A lambda does not exist at runtime. The runtime effect of a lambda expression is the generation of an object. Such objects are known as closures.

When an application uses a service, errors can occur because of temporary conditions such as intermittent service, infrastructure-level faults, network issues, or explicit throttling by the service. These types of error occur more frequently with cloud-based services, but can also occur in on-premises solutions. Very often, if you retry the operation a short time later (maybe only a few milliseconds later) the operation may succeed. These types of error conditions are referred to as transient faults.