Hannes du Preez show you how to change the wallpaper of a Windows 8 Store app.

Microsoft Technical Evangelist Dave Bost walks through the steps to build a Unity game for Windows 8.

Learn how to create a custom data annotation attribute and attach it with a model property, and how to add client side validation capabilities to your custom data annotation.

Windows 8 was the first operating system from Microsoft that was designed from ground up with touch in mind. Vipul Patel walks you through the basics of handling gestures like taps, slides and swipes in your applications.

Rob Paveza from the Visual Studio team stops by Microsoft Dev Radio to demo some great debugging tips and tricks for Visual Studio 2013 and for your Windows Apps.

Learn how easy it is to do Async programming with VB.NET 2012 and Windows 8 and 8.1

Windows 8.1 introduces new programmatic support for developers to access devices that support Human Interface Device (HID) protocol. Read on to learn how to build a Windows Store application that accesses devices that support HID.

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

ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms support model binding, including Value Providers. ASP.NET provides several inbuilt value providers and also allows you to create your own. Learn more in this article from Bipin Joshi.

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 show you how to change the wallpaper of a Windows 8 Store app.

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.