All sessions from the free dotnetConf virtual conference are now available online, also for free. Learn how to leverage the .NET Framework to develop solutions for the web, mobile, desktop, and the...

Tom Dykstra presents a list of resources that explain how to deploy an ASP.NET web application to Windows Azure Web Sites, using Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Studio 2012 to publish online.

This new tutorial shows how to create a SignalR application that sends high-frequency messages between clients and servers.

The ASP.NET SignalR 1.1 Beta release includes performance improvements, plus a new scaleout provider infrastructure and providers for Redis, Sql Server, and Azure Service Bus.

This new article describes which clients and servers are supported by SignalR.

In this new tutorial, Tom Dykstra shows how to create a web application that uses ASP.NET SignalR to provide server broadcast functionality.

In this new ASP.NET tutorial, Tim Teebken shows how to use ASP.NET SignalR to create a real-time chat application. You will add SignalR to an MVC 4 application and create a chat view to send and di...

In this new tutorial, Mike Wasson explains the ASP.NET Web API library that allows you to auto-generate help pages at run time.

Soma Somasegar announces the release of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2.

April 2013

In his third MVVM article, Laurent Bugnion explains how you can simulate nonstatic data even at design time by tricking the visual designer into executing some design-time-only code.

April 2013

Part 1 of a two-part series, this article examines the planning phase of the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL). The article examines how to build security into a Windows Store project, describing how to compile a risk assessment and identify security and privacy requirements.

April 2013

In this column, Peter Vogel continues his exploration of implementing the roles pattern in a typical business scenario by using Microsoft’s Managed Extensibility Framework to select and load the SalesOption objects that the design pattern requires.

April 2013

Microsoft makes getting started with HTML5 even easier in the latest LightSwitch update.

April 2013

Find out how to set up and configure Lab Management 2012 to maximize the benefits of each component and technology involved.

April 2013

Ready to write your first Windows Store app? One of the first decisions you’ll need to make is whether to use HTML/JavaScript, .NET, or C++. In this article, learn about what makes the C++/CX language extensions for building Windows 8 apps unique and when to use C++/CX to build your Windows Store app.

April 2013

Here’s part 3 of a series of four in-depth walkthroughs exploring the JavaScript API for Office, focusing on data binding and support for working with custom XML parts.

April 2013

Learn how to use Team Foundation Service to build your Windows Store apps and validate them using the Windows Apps Certification Kit. SLUG:LeBrun.Windows Store and TFS.0412msdn-1 In this article, we'll see how to create and deploy a virtual machine that will be used by TFS Service to perform builds of Windows Store apps. We’ll also see how to use TFS Build to perform validation of Windows Store apps using the Windows Apps Certification Kit (WACK) tool, modifying builds reports to notify users of the good (or bad) execution of the tool

April 2013

Learn the UX design considerations, coding principles and techniques the ALM Rangers used in developing an instructional Windows Store “treasure map” app to help increase ALM proficiency.

April 2013

James McCaffrey explain a fascinating technique called adaptive boosting classification, which uses training data to generate a large collection of very simple rules of thumb that are then weighted and combined to improve their predictive quality.

April 2013

Check out the new Patterns in Practice on the MSDN Magazine Web site.