Add Flare to Your Windows Phone 7 (WP7) App with Simple Animations
Are you having trouble making your apps stand out among similar apps with less functionality? Give your app a face lift with simple animations to your user interfaces.
Integrating Facebook Login with your Website
The most common approach of website authentication is to store membership information into a database and validate users based on their user names and passwords. Bipin Joshi shows you how to use Facebook Helper for WebMatrix to integrate your website authentication with Facebook instead.
Embed the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) Web Browser Within Your App
Looking to add a Help area to your app or a simple way to provide HTML info to the user? Try integrating the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) Web Browser control to create your own mini browser.
Creating and Consuming Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Data Services
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Data Services allow you to create and consume services using Open Data Protocol (OData). In the process WCF Data Services allow you to access your data using REpresentational State Transfer (REST). This article gives you a jump start in creating and consuming WCF data services and shows how queries can be executed in asynchronous manner.
Using Cloud Storage for Your Windows Phone 7 (WP7) App
Need storage for your Windows Phone 7 (WP7) application and you don't want to design and pay for your own infrastructure? Then try integrating with some of the free online services such as DropBox or Box.Net
Creating Your Own NuGet Package
NuGet is a free, open source package management system for .NET applications. The primary goal of NuGet is to help developers simplify the process of incorporating third party libraries into their .NET applications. This step-by-step article shows what it takes to create your own NuGet package.
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USING VC++ .NET |
Faster Microsoft C++ Programming With The MFC Class Wizard
During the glory days of MFC and ATL in the 1990s and early 2000s, The Visual C++ class wizard was a highly-used and useful IDE tool that simplified life for developers. The re-introduction of the class wizard, after the absence of a decade, demonstrates commitment to the 'glory day's' ideal and adds simplicity to class management tasks inside the IDE.
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.NET NUTS & BOLTS |
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...
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VISUAL BASIC TODAY |
Input and Output with VB.NET 2010
The .NET runtime has everything you need to format your output and handle special characters. Both Visual Basic 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 help you with Intellisense if you can't remember the syntax. This article explores simple console input and output and shows you how to get it done.
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PROGRAMMING INSIGHTS |
Understanding the Task Parallel Library IProducerConsumerCollection
A substantial number of Task Parallel Library (TPL) Concurrent collections implement IProducerConsumerCollection. Jeffrey Juday explains the scenarios and mechanisms around implementing IProducerConsumerCollections.
While some might question it, in general, developers are good at heart. In fact, the developer community can be extremely caring. The growth of Give Camps over the last few years is just one indication of the way developers are...
Yes, it is true. The death of Silverlight and Flash have been predicted. The culprit? HTML5. The above image links to a full infographic with more fun information on the wonderful world of HTML5. Check it out. You can even...
There is likely to be a ton of articles written in the last 24 hours on Windows 8 and the announcements at the Build conference. There is a lot being presented. In fact, I've started working on a couple of...
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