Join Vipul Patel as he walks Windows Phone developers through the intricacies of memory management in mobile applications.
How to Work with the Memory Limits of Windows Phone Apps
Published 12/02/2013
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Working with the SettingsFlyout Control in Windows 8.1
Published 11/22/2013
Discover how SettingsFlyout control makes it easy for Windows Store developers to expose their application settings in a design that meets Windows Store design guidelines.
Showing Contextual Options in Windows 8.1 Using the MenuFlyout Control
Published 11/15/2013
Among the assortment of new APIs provided by Windows 8.1 to support common use cases is the MenuFlyout control, which allows application developers to build applications that can show contextual menus. Vipul Patel walks you through the basics.
Windows 8.1 Says, "Forget All That Design Stuff From Windows 8.0"
Published 11/14/2013
The Design Guidelines in Windows 8.1 are nearly identical to those in Windows 8.0. However, in practical and tactical guidance they are so different, idyllic Windows 8.1 apps might fail Windows 8.0 Store Certification. Jerry Nixon helps navigate the morass.
Working with the New DatePicker Control in Windows 8.1
Published 11/11/2013
Learn the basics of using the DatePicker, a new Windows 8.1 control, in your Windows Store applications.
Visual Studio 2013 Tips and Tricks for Your Windows Apps (Video)
Published 09/18/2013
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.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
Published 04/18/2011
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.
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
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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...
Bypassing the Registry in Windows Store Apps and VB
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Learn how to use ApplicationDataContainer and ApplicationDataContainerSettings in your Windows 8.1 Store apps.
Using AutoMapper in Your ASP.Net MVC Applications
Published 11/25/2013
AutoMapper is an external component that helps in creating a mapping between a source and destination model types. Read on to learn about the AutoMapper component and how to use it in an Asp.Net MVC application.
