Hannes du Preez take you through the steps to create a video slot game in VB.NET.

Need to add search capability to your Metro style app?  This article demonstrates how to implement the search contract and include simple searching functionality within your app.

In a typical ASP.NET MVC application, the controller sends model data to the view and the view then renders the data in the required form. Bipin Joshi shows you how child action methods can be used to render markup dynamically.

Apart from Hashtables, queues and stacks are probably the most common Collection classes. This article explains the ins and outs of queues and stacks.

Wish you had a way to embed a page within a page for your Windows 8 Metro App? This article provides a basic understanding of the Frame control and how to start using it within your app.

There are millions of Namespaces in the .NET Framework. Coming from a VB 6 background, I was accustomed to arrays and arrays only. Luckily all has changed with .NET, in that the .NET Framework supports Collections, which as its name implies, is a collection of objects that you can store in a certain manner.

Ready to start building Windows 8 Metro apps, but not to sure how it works?  In this article, we will take you step by step through the navigation used in Metro apps.

While many of us have already been using Visual Studio 2012 for a while, it is interesting to see what is highlighted in the official launch. I've captured some of the highlights for you.

Vipul Patel walks Windows Phone developers through how to retrieve device information so that they can author applications to draw the maximum possible juice from the device.

The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.

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...

Hannes du Preez take you through the steps to create a video slot game in VB.NET.

WCF implementations normally take two different approaches; a Document style or an API style. Document style implementations are more flexible and often easier to extend and version. Also, Document style or rather, Message Contract service implementations, work well between systems with a shared message assembly. Jeffrey Juday guides you through architecting a WCF Message Contract implementation.

Microsoft announces the $500 million, 3-year initiative: YouthSpark.

Microsoft announced new markets for Windows 8 apps as well as another benefit to MSDN and BizSpark subscribers.

While many of us have already been using Visual Studio 2012 for a while, it is interesting to see what is highlighted in the official launch. I've captured some of the highlights for you.