Alice Pang provides a quick walkthrough of building a Windows Phone app with Windows Phone App Studio.


Alice Pang provides a quick walkthrough of building a Windows Phone app with Windows Phone App Studio.

Jerry Nixon explains how he built a cool timer app, based on the one that shipped with Windows 8.1.

All you need to make money through advertising in your apps is a valid Windows Store developer license and the Microsoft Advertising SDK. Hannes du Preez walks you through the steps.

Learn how to provide a rich in-app search experience using the SearchBox control in Windows 8.1 applications.

While applications can specify that they prefer portrait or prefer landscape, does this always work? Jared explains all!

Visual Studio 2013 Preview and .NET Framework 4.5.1 are now available for download. Hannes du Preez shows you what you can expect from Visual Studio 2013.

As a web developer you should be aware of a few security best practices while developing your ASP.NET web application. Arun Karthick lists his top 7 tips to help you keep your ASP.NET security intact.

Vipul Patel walks Windows 8.1 developers through the basics of the new Flyout control, a quick way to show temporary information related to user interaction, which will be introduced in Windows 8.1.

Learn how to use Ajax helper to submit your HTML form using Ajax so that instead of refreshing the entire web page only a part of it will be refreshed.
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 shows you how to create a video player and a Windows 8 Store application.

As a web developer you should be aware of a few security best practices while developing your ASP.NET web application. Arun Karthick lists his top 7 tips to help you keep your ASP.NET security intact.

Microsoft released bits for Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1.
With the recent price drop of the Surface RT to $349 and with Microsoft writing off $900 million related to Surface inventory, there has been a lot of interesting comments and opinions stated recently. Many of those opinions differ from my own.
When it comes to the highest paying jobs in IT, it seems that it is a good day to be a developer.