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Extending the Windows Phone Pivot

As I was working on a Windows Phone 8 project I needed a pivot that could hide its title, giving back some screen real-estate when needed. The basic pivot...

0 replies - 757 views - 05/17/13 by Nico Vermeir in Articles

Links You Don't Want to Miss (Apr. 24)

A collection of JavaScript patternsThis is a list of TONS of JavaScript patterns and antipatterns that covers function patterns, jQuery patterns, jQuery plugin...

0 replies - 3789 views - 04/24/13 by Allen Coin in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Fountain Codes (from "Damn Cool Algorithms")

That's right, it's time for another episode of the frustratingly infrequent Damn Cool Algorithms series! If you're not familiar with it, you might want to...

0 replies - 14765 views - 04/16/13 by Nick Johnson in Articles

Guide to Tech Interviews

I’ve been interviewing people for programming jobs for five years and I’ve recently gotten a look at the interview process from the other side. Here are...

0 replies - 23173 views - 02/28/13 by Kristina Chodorow in Articles

Create a Database Project in Visual Studio

Introduction: All software development involves databases. It is very difficult to manage and maintain databases when multiple developers are working on it....

0 replies - 2792 views - 02/06/13 by Michael Georgiou in Articles

Repository Pattern, Done Right

The repository pattern has been discussed a lot lately. Especially about it’s usefulness since the introduction of OR/M libraries. This post (which is the...

0 replies - 2357 views - 02/04/13 by Jonas Gauffin in Articles

FTP Server & MSMQ Integration

Behold!  A FTP server and MSMQ integration demonstration. This demo shows how Serv-U Platinum writes out FTP server events (e.g., file uploaded) to MSMQ,...

0 replies - 1308 views - 01/25/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

7000 Concurrent Connections With Asynchronous WCF

It’s rare that a web service has some intensive processor bound computation to execute. Far more common for business applications, is a web service that...

0 replies - 1347 views - 12/31/12 by Mike Hadlow in Articles

Understanding OData v3 and WCF Data Services 5.x

This is an awesome 20 page article about OData and WCF Data Services. If you need an intro to these two, you need to read this article.CodeProject -...

0 replies - 2321 views - 12/28/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

WCF Service Application Documentation 2012

   •   PurposeWindows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a framework for building service-oriented applications. Using WCF, you can send...

0 replies - 2444 views - 12/17/12 by Michael Georgiou in Articles

Configuring IIS methods for ASP.NET Web API on Windows Azure Websites

That’s a pretty long title, I agree. When working on my implementation of RFC2324, also known as the HyperText Coffee Pot Control Protocol, I’ve been...

0 replies - 2456 views - 12/11/12 by Maarten Balliauw in Articles

RabbitMQ On Windows With .NET, A Case Study

Any reader of this blog will know that my big project over the last year has been to create a simple .NET API for RabbitMQ called EasyNetQ.  I’ve been...

0 replies - 3030 views - 12/08/12 by Mike Hadlow in Articles

Walkthrough: Monetize Windows 8 with the Microsoft Advertising SDK

An interstitial advertisement is traditionally recognized as a full-page ad appearing between two pages. Interstitial, which means “gap” perceives a gap...

0 replies - 2277 views - 12/07/12 by Jerry Nixon in Articles

31 Days of Windows 8 for HTML5 | Day #26: Gyrometer

This article is Day #26 in a series called 31 Days of Windows 8.  Each of the articles in this series will be published for both HTML5/JS and XAML/C#. You...

0 replies - 1915 views - 12/06/12 by Clark Sell in Articles

Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough Using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0 – Part 1

Casual game developers have been using XNA since 2004 for ease of create games for Windows, XBOX and most recently Windows Phone. XNA is a .NET framework for...

0 replies - 7799 views - 12/06/12 by Tara Walker in Articles