5:01 developers are visionless hacks(debuggerdotbreak.wordpress.com)

submitted by JudahGabriel(814) 1 month, 8 days ago

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. read more...

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Your own sports news site with ESPN API and Knockout.js(www.strathweb.com)

submitted by fdub(281) 1 month, 19 days ago

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

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Tackling Metro Performance Killers(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 1 month, 21 days ago

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. read more...

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Rx - Join(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by bnaya(431) 1 month, 23 days ago

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. read more...

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Async/Await Could Be Better(www.codeproject.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 1 month, 24 days ago

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. read more...

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Using Reactive Extensions for Streaming Data from Database(www.aboutmycode.com)

submitted by mcnamaragio(283) 1 month, 24 days ago

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. read more...

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10 Questions, 10 Answers on Roslyn -- Visual Studio Magazine(visualstudiomagazine.com)

submitted by pwhe23(972) 1 month, 27 days ago

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

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.NET vs Windows 8(geekswithblogs.net)

submitted by pwhe23(972) 1 month, 28 days ago

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. read more...

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Windows 8 does not make .NET developers obsolete(www.simple-talk.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 1 month, 28 days ago

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. read more...

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WinRT Samples: Running Background Tasks(www.srtsolutions.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 1 month, 28 days ago

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. read more...

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Asynchronous and synchronous flexibility with jQuery.when()(lostechies.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 1 month, 29 days ago

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. read more...

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5 1/2 Features every C# programmer should lust after(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 1 month, 29 days ago

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. read more...

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(Windows8) WinJS Basic Javascript Objects and the ViewModel pattern(www.progware.org)

submitted by iwannis(452) 2 months, 16 days ago

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). read more...

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Opened web FTW! How I used opened APIs to build a beautiful HTML5 app(debuggerdotbreak.wordpress.com)

submitted by JudahGabriel(814) 3 months, 11 days ago

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. read more...

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The first 10 Minutes of a C# Developer Exploring a Metro Application u(michaelcrump.net)

submitted by mbcrump(1034) 3 months, 11 days ago

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. read more...

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Visual Studio Achievements, now a reality!(blog.whiletrue.com)

submitted by rudib(49) 4 months, 9 days ago

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

3 comments |category: Visual Studio |Views: 316

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