Programmers don't get much recognition and Microsoft understands that, which is why they've introduced Visual Studio Achievements. Visual Studio Achievements is a fun way to earn Achievement Badges that you can show off to your fellow employees or even your boss.
jQuery UI, which works on top of the jQuery library, provides in-built features for web developers but it doesn’t stop there. jQuery UI also allows you to extend or create custom UI features. Learn about the in-built features and test a couple of code samples.
Learning by example is a great way to get up to speed on new coding techniques. Microsoft has delivered a ton of examples available for download to help you see concrete illustrations of specific features of the new Metro style apps. Read on to learn more.
HTML 5 has become more popular and jQuery, not to be left behind, is providing timely support for HTML 5. V. N. S. Arun discusses the data attribute features of HTML 5 and the support offered by jQuery with a few examples.
LINQ is a natural fit for parsing web log files. Chetan Jagatkishore Kothari and Shalini Nautiyal provide an overview of analyzing a log file using LINQ based Log Parser.
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...
The .NET runtime has everything you need to format your output and handle special characters. Both Visual Basic 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 help you with Intellisense if you can't remember the syntax. This article explores simple console input and output and shows you how to get it done.
If WCF and ASP.NET MVC had offspring it would be named ASP.NET Web API. Like WCF, Web API is built for Web Service development. Only instead of building on WCF data structures; Web API embraces an MVC style experience. The result makes Web Service development more accessible to ASP.NET developers and gets WCF developers closer to HTTP.
