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5:01 developers are visionless hacks

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:37:10 GMT

5:01 developers -- those developers who punch out at 5:01 and never think about technology again until 9am, the people who don't read programming blogs or attempt to advance their craft, these developers have neither vision for technology, nor ambition in their field. Where the 501 Manifesto errs.

Your own sports news site with ESPN API and Knockout.js

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:21:07 GMT

Build your own sports news hub with ESPN API, knockout.js, jQuery and Twitter boostrap. Source code included.

Tackling Metro Performance Killers

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:42:20 GMT

Dave Tepper, the Program Manager for Windows, shows us how to take care of common performance problems that pop up in Metro-style applications. Some of these performance problems extend to normal web development as well.

Rx - Join

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:03:50 GMT

this post is an advance one so you haven't yet master the Rx basic practice you might want to start in here. the post will focus on the Join and GroupJoin operators and we will try to get a solid understanding of what does it really means to join multiple data streams. the Rx notion of join is quit different than the join we has used to know in SQL queries.

Async/Await Could Be Better

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:27:15 GMT

I think just about everyone is excited about the new async/await features in C#5. They make for cleaner code and easier multithreading. However, Paulo Zemek has thought of a few ways in which they could be better.

Using Reactive Extensions for Streaming Data from Database

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:10:07 GMT

You have probably heard about Reactive Extensions, a library from Microsoft that greatly simplifies working with asynchronous data streams and allows to query them with Linq operators. There are many different scenarios where using rx results in a much more simple and flexible code. This post demonstrates how to use reactive extensions for loading data from database asynchronously in chunks.

10 Questions, 10 Answers on Roslyn -- Visual Studio Magazine

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:04:30 GMT

10 questions and answers to help understand the Roslyn complier-as-a-service project for Visual Basic and C# developers.

.NET vs Windows 8

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:03:28 GMT

So, day 1 of DevWeek. Lots and lots of Windows 8 and WinRT, as you would expect. What I want to focus on is this: Windows 8 does not make .NET developers obsolete.

Windows 8 does not make .NET developers obsolete

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:38:03 GMT

Simon Cooper reports the good news straight from DevWeek that Windows 8 is not going to leave us out in the cold, and that .Net applications are fully supported on the Windows 8 desktop.

WinRT Samples: Running Background Tasks

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:22:53 GMT

Bill Wagner has thrown together an example of running background tasks under WinRT. Background tasks allow your application to be woken by the OS in response to certain events or conditions.

Asynchronous and synchronous flexibility with jQuery.when()

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:42 GMT

Derick Bailey shows us how you can use jQuery to support both synchronous and asynchronous code, with the `$.when` function, and your code doesn't have to care whether or not it's async.

5 1/2 Features every C# programmer should lust after

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:48:36 GMT

Ivan Towlson at Mindscape shares 5 1/2 features in F# that every C# programmer should be drooling over. Particularly interesting are Object Expressions and Partial Applications.

(Windows8) WinJS Basic Javascript Objects and the ViewModel pattern

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:27:43 GMT

When someone starts implementing small programs in Visual Studio 2011 and starts playing with the VS2011 templates for Metro applications in Javascript, he soon wonders about the differences that WinJS brings in Javascript object creation and what is the best practice of connecting the view (HTML) with the model (Javascript).

Opened web FTW! How I used opened APIs to build a beautiful HTML5 app

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:04:48 GMT

It's a great time to be a web developer. HTML5, KnockoutJS, MVC3, RavenDB, and opened web APIs and services like Google Docs, IfThisThenThat, and RSS are combined to build a beautiful, useful web app. The opened web is coming to fruition.

The first 10 Minutes of a C# Developer Exploring a Metro Application u

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:05:40 GMT

Introduction I'm a C# guy through and through, but I have recently been exploring C++ . I decided to take you with me as I spend 10 minutes exploring the C++ Metro Templates included with Visual Studio 11. This blog post is written with my background in C#. I will try to point out the differences as I see them. We will look at C++ templates, solution explorer, some XAML and even some code-behind. Let's get started with templates.

Visual Studio Achievements, now a reality!

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:13:24 GMT

Follow up to last year's comic story on Visual Studio having game-like achievements.

How To Build a Modern Website in 2011

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:10:43 GMT

Over the past 12 months I've been on a self-imposed quest for knowledge. We're at a changing - almost revolutionary - point with the web as I (start) writing this on November 1st, 2011. Here's why

UX Guidelines for Metro-Style Apps

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:37:28 GMT

The Windows team has released official design guidelines for building Windows Metro style applications. These guidelines cover all the new UI elements, animations, and how they should work and fit together.

The Sick, Sad State of Windows Apps

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:27:11 GMT

People are afraid to install Windows apps. Windows app development is becoming irrelevant. Here's why, and how to fix it in Windows 8.

Silverlight's Broken Promise

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:24:33 GMT

This blogger talks about the future problems Silverlight developers might run into. Especially those who invested in the cross-platform functionality that Silverlight promised. Will Windows 8, Metro Style Apps, and IE 10 be the end of Silverlight?

Real-time UI Syncing with ASP.NET, SignalR, Knockout.js, and EF

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:36:07 GMT

Anoop Madhusudanan shows off his KsigDo to-do example application leveraging ASP.NET, SignalR, Knockout.js, and Entity Framework to provide real-time UI view-model syncing.

What is new in .Net framework 4.5?

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:20:34 GMT

The post has all the new features in .Net framework 4.5 in a single poster. What is nice about the poster is that it marks the feature as a significant improvement, a performance improvement, asynchronous improvement wherever applicable. It is definitely nice poster to zoom and print.

The bell tolls for Flash, and Silverlight isn't far behind

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:25:41 GMT

Flash and Silverlight developers: now is the time to reinvest your skills in another platform. The Great Browser Plugin War of the 21st century has come to a close, and the plugins have lost. Long live HTML5.

Embedding RavenDB into an ASP.NET MVC 3 Application

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:40:20 GMT

Learn how to use the embedded version of RavenDB in an ASP.NET MVC 3 web application.

Rendering PDFs with pdf.js using HTML5 and JavaScript

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:26:01 GMT

A couple of clever guys over at Mozilla have thought about this and have come up with a genius way of displaying PDFs inside your browser using Javascript and HTML5. The code is available for download on Github. PDF.js is community-driven and supported by Mozilla Labs which means its good news for us as developers. In the long run this plugin is intended to render PDFs natively within Firefox itself and will eventually ship with Firefox. For now though, we can start using the power of this plugin within our applications today.