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Visual Studio 2012 C++ Auto-Parallelizer

As you might have gathered from some scarce reports on the Web and the initial list of new features in Visual Studio 2012, the new C++ compiler is now...

0 replies - 3391 views - 06/19/12 by Sasha Goldshtein in Articles

12 Common WCF Interop Misconceptions

I get mails almost on a daily basis from people asking me how to build a WCF client to consume a service of framework X (usually axis or wsit but others as...

0 replies - 2907 views - 06/18/12 by Yaron Naveh in Articles

NavigationService for WinRT

It was only 1.5 years ago, but it seems already a long time ago that Laurent Bugnion described a “view service” for Windows Phone navigation, commonly know...

0 replies - 1510 views - 06/18/12 by Joost Van Schaik in Articles

ASP.NET MVC – How To Show Asterisk By Required Labels

Usually we have some required fields on our forms and it would be nice if ASP.NET MVC views can detect those fields automatically and display nice red...

0 replies - 2772 views - 06/18/12 by Gunnar Peipman in Articles

Testing a Metro Application Across Two User Accounts

While working on the same machine, I often log in under two different user accounts - one for work and another one for testing with full (Administrator)...

0 replies - 1799 views - 06/17/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Using WinRT On The Desktop To List Metro Apps

Anything about WinRT - How to call WinRT APIs from C# Desktop applications – list the installed Metro packagesAs Jaime Rodriguez detailed in April, Windows 8...

0 replies - 2610 views - 06/17/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Lightswitch & the HTML Client - What Does This Mean?

Lightswitch RecapFor you to understand the rest of this post it is vital you have a high level understanding of Lightswitch and how it works. Lightswitch is a...

0 replies - 3183 views - 06/17/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

WMS: Rethinking the Need For a CMS

Traditionally, Content Management Systems are about Content. Whenever Data that is  not simply a content page was going to be persisted in a CMS, you'd...

0 replies - 1571 views - 06/16/12 by Itamar Syn-hershko in Articles

Using Approval Testing for ELMAH.MVC Project

During the ELMAH.MVC 2.0 preparation I had a bit challenging task. As I mentioned, I was about to adopt some code from ELMAH.Sandox project. The 2.0 release...

0 replies - 1744 views - 06/16/12 by Alexander Beletsky in Articles

MVVMLight and Async

With Windows 8 just around the corner and many developers running for the ship to get up to speed with the new brave world (even those who have frowned at...

0 replies - 1519 views - 06/15/12 by Simon Jackson in Articles

TFSPreview is Public - Check Out the Team Foundation Service Preview

Brian Harry’s blog - Team Foundation Service Preview is public!"Since we announced the Team Foundation Service Preview at the BUILD conference last...

0 replies - 2000 views - 06/11/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Extend The Array Class with Extension Methods

Here I am going to discuss how you can create the Extension method for the System.Array Class. On MSDN : Array Class - Provides methods for creating,...

0 replies - 2942 views - 05/27/12 by Pranay Rana in Articles

Looking at Windows 8 Metro App Internals? The Path Has Changed In The Consumer Preview.

Justin Angel put together a blog post on reverse engineering Windows 8 applications and he described the locations of the APPX packages on the local...

0 replies - 5997 views - 05/20/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

.NET Framework 4.5 Gets Built-In ZIP Support

TugberkUgurlu.com - .NET 4.5 to Support Zip File Manipulation Out of the Box "One of the missing feature of .NET framework was a support for Zip...

0 replies - 2788 views - 05/20/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Find, Forgive and Forget Your Coding Indiscretions With NDepend

Microsoft developers hear a lot about tools that will make them write faster, more efficient, more refactored, more unit tested code all the time. People...

0 replies - 1794 views - 05/20/12 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles