ASP.NET 4.5 and IIS 8 provide support for WebSocket protocol so that you can program WebSockets in your ASP.NET web forms and ASP.NET MVC applications. Bipin Joshi discusses what WebSockets are and how to develop web applications that take advantage of HTML5 WebSockets.
There are several ways to make money from a Windows Store App on Windows 8. One way is with Ads.
Microsoft spent years hammering into developers heads that you need to include certain things on your Windows applications and you need to perform certain actions. Now they want you to forget a quite a few of those "Windows standards" and replace them with new ones.
As you look to building applications for Windows 8, another area that you can't be forgetting is touch. While Windows 7 supported touch, Windows 8 really brings it to life.
Thinking about building a Windows 8 Store application? Learn how to apply Fill and Snap easier.
Async and Await in C# 5.0 are designed to work with the Task Parallel Library and to maintain code structure a lot simpler. Read this article to learn about them.
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 Preeze shows you how to add a preview of a selected picture to an OpenFileDialog. Part 2 of this article focuses on the user interface and user interaction with the preview pane.
With the RTW of the Visual Studio 2012 IDE in August, Microsoft included some new features and nice enhancements. Read on to learn the top 7 items that caught one developer's eye.
