If you are developer working on applications targeting multiple platforms you might have to create duplicates of underlying class libraries targeting the specific platforms, even if they contain the same functionality, logics or algorithms. In .NET framework 4.5 RC, the Portable Class Library has been introduced to solve exactly that problem.
The Windows Phone platform has rich support for gestures. This article illustrates the support by way of building a Windows Phone application, which leverages the support for gestures.
Chris Bennett shows you how to create a simple Background Task and put it into your Windows 8 Metro UI Apps.
Windows Phone platform offers rich APIs to capture user input. Learn how Windows Phone developers can use these APIs to create a Windows Phone drawing application that takes input in the form of user touch.
Microsoft has introduced some cool features with Visual Studio 2012 that seem to resolve some general issues faced by every web developer while working with a .js or a .css file. Read on to learn about a few of them.
Reset events are the wait handles that help synchronize threads in the middle of some asynchronous threading operations where multiple threads are executing simultaneously. V.N.S Arun examines this often confusing .NET framework topic.
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...
Learn how to obtain an outside application's window handle, in order to manipulate that window from inside your program, using either VB.NET or C#.
SOLID principles form the base for writing good and clean object oriented code in C#. Learn about the S.O.L.I.D principles and explore C# coding samples for each.
