April 2013

Learn about the tools and techniques to view and retrieve content from a Facebook wall in order to share it through other means and catalog it for something else, such as business intelligence analysis.

April 2013

Entity Framework sometimes reinserts existing objects into databases. In the first of a two-part series, Julie Lerman explains why this happens, and how you can avoid it.

April 2013

This column introduces you to Windows Azure Tables, a NoSQL technology for storing massive amounts of data offered as a service in the cloud.

April 2013

On April 1, Ted Neward pays homage to his feline friends and introduces an important language for your .NET programming toolbox: LOLCODE.

April 2013

It’s a complete set of cross-platform, back-end services for rapid modern app development, and Rachel Appel shows you how to set it up in Visual Studio, explains how the API works and demonstrates the necessary coding to get started.

April 2013

Windows 8 makes it easy to write programs that can access individual music files. Using DirectX components is more difficult, but adds versatility, as Charles Petzold describes.

April 2013

One of the delights of writing this column is that I get to see lots of new things. Sometimes their creators forget to name them, so I get to do it.

Three of Microsoft's most seasoned ASP.NET speakers, Scott Hanselman, Jon Galloway, and Damian Edwards provide an accelerated introduction to building modern web applications with ASP.NET 4.5 and A...

March 2013

Peter continues to explore implementing the Roles pattern to solve a typical business problem: supporting multiple sales options on an order line. This month he develops the object model design.

March 2013

Rules in Outlook are useful for automatically managing e-mail, but it can be difficult to get a single e-mail into multiple folders. Learn how to create a PowerShell script that automatically sends messages to the appropriate folder based on values you assign.

March 2013

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 can help teams plan, manage and track work. This articles explores how to use features such as the product backlog, sprint backlog and task boards in the context of Agile development frameworks.

March 2013

In this article, Joel Fjordén shows WPF/Silverlight developers how they can implement the MVVM pattern in Windows Store apps without compromising on architecture.

March 2013

Doug Erickson reviews SurfaceImageSource and VirtualSurfaceImageSource, two Windows Runtime XAML types that use the GPU to boost image rendering in Windows Store apps.

March 2013

Moving on from covering the basics in part 1 of this series, Stephen Oliver and Eric Schmidt discuss how to access data and handle events in the JavaScript API for Office.

March 2013

Avoid common asynchronous programming errors and master techniques to take full advantage of the new async/await support in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.

March 2013

Because the ASP.NET Web API leverages the fundamental building blocks of the HTTP protocol, it can provide a way of refactoring your existing ASP.NET applications into an AJAX-enabled, Test Driven Development world.

March 2013

Windows Azure lets you take advantage of Microsoft’s world-class global infrastructure to deploy your own applications, with the corresponding capabilities to reduce maintenance requirements, maximize performance and minimize costs.

March 2013

James McCaffrey presents a clustering algorithm based on a technique called Naive Bayes inference, which works with either categorical or numeric data.

March 2013

The Apps for Office platform represents an important change in the way apps are developed for the Office suite.

March 2013

Kenny Kerr looks at the unique relationship between Direct2D and the desktop application window.