Serialization can be tricky in any circumstances. But if you have to serialize a Windows Store app, then you have double the trouble! Read on to learn how to properly serialize Windows Store apps.


Serialization can be tricky in any circumstances. But if you have to serialize a Windows Store app, then you have double the trouble! Read on to learn how to properly serialize Windows Store apps.

Michael Palermo provides a quick start to the development process with Windows 8.1 and HTML5. By setting up the required environment and understanding a few of the changes in Visual Studio 2013, you can start coding your next Windows Store app.

Updated: This program presents an original way of the famous Rubik's Cube by an assembly of 27 multi-colored cubies isolated in the space. Even during its deformations, it allows a 3D vision of the cube thanks to the basic MFC graphic functions. This simulation can also rapidly calculate a solution to reordering the Cube.

Hannes du Preez shows 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
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...

Serialization can be tricky in any circumstances. But if you have to serialize a Windows Store app, then you have double the trouble! Read on to learn how to properly serialize Windows Store apps.
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.