I've been working on Chapter 7 of my upcoming book, Designing Windows 8 Metro Applications with C# and XAML.
This chapter focuses on tiles and toast...
0 replies - 2000 views - 05/20/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles
The Telerik Blogs - Why I Hate Unit Testing "So
you went to work for the cool company that wooed you with promises of
cutting edge technologies...
0 replies - 1635 views - 05/19/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles
Zune API has been out there for a while – I documented it on Coding4Fun and even created a centralized project with all the known API calls. I like to keep...
0 replies - 1511 views - 05/19/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
The
ASP.NET MVC is becoming more and more popular each day. As the
application grows in size so does the maintenance nightmare. Following
are some...
0 replies - 3096 views - 05/18/12 by Merrick Chaffer in Articles
Introduction While the regular expression passing in .NET is
damn fast, there are times where it can take too long for your needs.
Until now there hasn’t...
0 replies - 1481 views - 05/18/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles
In my last blog post, I covered how to wrap your arms around the Task class and its relationship to the new async and await
keywords. I mentioned that the...
0 replies - 2115 views - 05/15/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles
betanews - Xamarin Designer brings visual Android UX development to C#, .NET ".NET
software development tool company Xamarin on Monday launched...
0 replies - 2109 views - 05/14/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles
Fog is a library that makes it easier to use F# to interact with Windows Azure through the Windows Azure SDK for .NET.
It provides functions for many of the...
0 replies - 1722 views - 05/13/12 by Daniel Mohl in Articles
This is a short excerpt from Chapter 1 of Pro .NET Performance, scheduled to appear in August 2012. I might be publishing a few more of these before and after...
0 replies - 2317 views - 05/13/12 by Sasha Goldshtein in Articles
Among other API changed in WinRT, major changes were introduced to the image manipulation capabilities available in the .NET Framework out-of-the-box. For one...
0 replies - 4997 views - 05/12/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
Almost any software application today will likely contain a
long-running process. “Long-running” may be a relative term but in the
Windows Runtime it...
0 replies - 2277 views - 05/12/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles
NOTE: I am not sure how this will affect Marketplace certification for your application. Internally,
a lot of images are referenced as resources. For...
0 replies - 3008 views - 05/12/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
BCL Team Blog - Announcing Portable Library Tools 2 Beta for Visual Studio 2010 [Mircea] Today
we are announcing the Beta release of the Portable Library...
0 replies - 2071 views - 05/10/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles
Introduction A new interface in .NET is the IDataFlowBlock,
which is implemented in many interesting ways, so to look at those we
will start off with the...
0 replies - 2263 views - 05/10/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles
Introduction When Tasks where introduced in .NET 4 one of
the fantastic abilities was to be able to pass in a CancellationToken
and use that to...
0 replies - 2432 views - 05/09/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles
