Visual Studio Online marks the shift to building applications in an online environment. Read on for an overview of the development tool that has joined the cloud bandwagon.


Visual Studio Online marks the shift to building applications in an online environment. Read on for an overview of the development tool that has joined the cloud bandwagon.
Vipul Patel walks Microsoft technology developers through tips and tricks to get the most out of Visual Studio 2013.
Vipul Patel explores the new features offered as part of Windows Phone 8.1, the latest version of the mobile operating system from Microsoft.
With Windows Phone 7.1 onwards, Microsoft provides platform support for capturing video, enabling developers to integrate video capturing capability with their applications. Vipul Patel explains the basics of building a Windows Phone 8 application that can record video.
Manoj Kumar shows you how to use Windows® Azure™ Blob Storage to store Windows Phone 8 application data in the cloud.
Learn how to build a simple audio track listener application that can play even in the background.
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.

Discover how to easily create and add WIN32 Services in .NET. You’ll also discover the Topshelf toolkit.

Hannes du Preez shows you three different methods of reading and using XML documents productively in your VB.NET applications.

Arun Karthick introduces you to the state machine model and shows you how to create a simple working state machine sample using the .NET framework in the C# language.