Anders Abel05/21/13
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Properties with non public setters sometimes make sense – until a unit test requires an object to be set up in a specific state.
John Sonmez05/20/13
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If you are using ASP.NET, especially if you are using ASP.NET MVC, you need to be using Glimpse.
G. Andrew Duthie05/19/13
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Andrew is excited to announce a new set of workshops he has been planning in collaboration with the folks from the BaltoMSDN user group and the CMAP Code Camp.
Den Delimarsky05/17/13
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Den Delimarsky explains what's the best way to handle a tricky photo storage situation in Windows Phone applications.
G. Andrew Duthie05/17/13
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One of the things about building Windows Store apps using Visual Studio 2012 is the availability of several rich and useful templates. One the favorites is the Grid App template, which demonstrates how to build an app with a hub page listing grouped items in a ListView control, a group details page, listing information about each group, and an item details page, for information about specific items.
Imran Baloch05/16/13
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In this article, Imran shows how to use ASP.NET with SignalR. You will see how easy it is to create a real-time Live Cricket Score app using the power of ASP.NET & SignalR.
Greg Duncan05/15/13
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Den Delimarsky and the C4F team are doing it again. Coding4Fun Mission Control is a flexible framework that allows developers to easily create an API to control a variety of devices through an extensible network communication platform.
Greg Duncan05/14/13
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With access to free and paid extensions. Easily browse and purchase extensions online with a few clicks, just from within the Extension Manager:
Gil Fink05/13/13
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In about a few hours Gil will be starting a trip to Chicago to attend VSLive Chicago conference. It is going to be the second time he's speaking there - here is the session breakdown.
Bart De Smet05/12/13
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Being designed around the concept of managed object pipelines, one may expect powershell.exe to be a managed executable. However, it turns out this isn’t the case completely.
Bart De Smet05/11/13
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Use of hierarchical storage and auxiliary services provided by technologies like Active Directory often has advantages over alternative designs, e.g. using a relational database. For example, user accounts may be stored in a directory service for an application to make use of.
Den Delimarsky05/10/13
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Den Delimarsky shows how it's possible to create a string XOR character swapping routine in X86 Assembly.
Greg Duncan05/10/13
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WebMatrix is a free, lightweight web development tool Microsoft first introduced in 2010, and which provides a great, focused web development experience for ASP.NET, PHP, and Node.js.
Filip Ekberg05/09/13
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We are moving towards a new era where more and more people want to offer the possibility to expand the system with widgets and plugins. By utilizing Compilation as a Service can make it easier for all parties to create plug-ins.
Rob Sanders05/08/13
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If you are a user of the new “Windows to Go” feature of Windows 8 Enterprise edition, which enables you to boot and run the Windows 8 operating system off an external USB device, you may have noticed something odd when trying to use the Windows App Store.
Alex Schearer05/07/13
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When developing games for Windows 8 with C# it is not immediately clear how to construct a basic game loop.
Erik Ejlskov Jensen05/07/13
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Erik shows how it is possible to reseed an IDENTITY column that is a part of a table in a SQL Server Compact database.
Greg Duncan05/06/13
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Nice kind of recursive example of using Processing Monitor to debug a debug tool. Details about the download and additional information inside this article.
Sony Arouje05/05/13
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Sony Arouje covers the possibility of triggering the StaleStateException issue when working in NHibernate, as well as a way to solve it.
Jon Davis05/04/13
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Namespaces in Javascript are a pattern many untrained or undisciplined developers may fail to do, but they are an essential strategy in retaining maintainability and avoiding collisions in Javascript source.
Greg Duncan05/03/13
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The NuGet package manager is a great way for developers to install and update third-party tools. It solves a lot of the problems of dependency management and integration. Is it ready for the exacting requirements of development in the enterprise?
Den Delimarsky05/03/13
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Den Delimarsky provides a basic implementation for a string concatenation mechanism in x86 Assembly.
Prashant Khandelwal05/02/13
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In this post, Prashant documents his self-made wrapper for the SkyDrive REST API, that can be reused in a variety of .NET applications.
Greg Duncan05/01/13
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Discusses best practices for recognizing when a project should be cancelled and the benefits of doing so.
Alexander Beletsky04/30/13
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From technical perspective SPA means the web application, that being loaded as one HTML page and redraws it's UI without round trip to server. That sounds not so exiting, but we can see that SPA is much more than that.
