Learn to utilize more advanced Azure Queuing features like Asynchronous Methods, LockTimeouts, and Message TimeToLive.

It is Monday and sifting through my inbox has been interesting. There are two finds that fall under the "Oops" category.

This installment of Creating a Video Slot game with VB.NET shows you how to determine whether or not three pictures form part of a winning line, how to enable the facility to enter an amount of credits, and how to track them during gameplay.

ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta introduced Single Page Applications (SPA), web applications that provide rich functionality to a web page through a client side script. Support is limited, but a basic framework for building data driven web pages using popular JavaScript libraries is provided. This article discusses the SPA project template and parts of a typical SPA application.

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.

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...

The final installment of our Slot Game series shows you how to build in a way to win or lose. We will also add some effects for when a win takes place.

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.

It is Monday and sifting through my inbox has been interesting. There are two finds that fall under the "Oops" category.

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.