Today is a LightSwitch edition with six excellent articles by Karthikeyan Anbarasan. From an introduction to LightSwitch right through to handling and validating data, these posts will give you a great jump start into this awesome technology. Take a look also at the free collection of Visual Studio productivity extensions for…
Sometimes I enjoy reading old posts on the web, so I sniffle around in the archives of some of my favorite blogs. Jeff Atwood is one of my favorites, and here he talks about COBOL. Chances are, each time you interact with your financial institution (be it online or at…
Steve Clayton shares a video that every programmer must watch. If you don't read any of the other links in this edition, it doesn't matter as long as you watch this clip. Then, have a look at the Multilingual App Toolkit for Visual Studio 2012 on the Visual Studio Gallery.…
As you have by no doubt heard, Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 is available globally. Rob Mauceri and Scott Hanselman talk about IE 10. Then, Senthil Kumar discusses Just Decompile. This might be a repost from my side, but I feel that it is essential for every developer to…
Today we get a blast from the past with the Windows 95 Video Guide. Seriously, have a gander at this video on YouTube. Rick Marron discusses Syntax Highlighting and Bob Tabor gives us an Important Update to C# Fundamentals. Can you explain a 300 million year old gear found in…
Iris Classon give us a few tips on monitoring the time you spend on different activities on your PC. This is essential to increase your productivity; if you want to increase your productivity, you need to know where your time is going to in the first place. Pinal Dave brings…
It's the start of another new week and we kick off with David Tepper talking about how to improve the performance of your Metro style apps. Senthil Kumar reviews JustDecompile from Telerik. This is an amazing tool that needs to be part of every developers repertoire. Microsoft Malaysia shows us how…
Today, Paul Thurrott tries to ease the transition to Outlook.com with a few great tips. Mahesh Sabnis takes us through the new shiny things in WCF 4.5 while Iris Classon asks another, very intelligent stupid question. Senthil Kumar gives us the run down on some libraries for reading and writing…
In today's edition, Jose M. Aguilar shares a free 80 page e-book he has published with CampusMVP.NET covering various parts of SignalR (The RC2 release). You will need to register to get the download link. We also have some tidbits on the evolution of DevLabs and an awesome article by Jonas…
Scott Hanselman talks about ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 which is echoed by Scott Guthrie. Mark Arteaga talks about Windows 8 App Templates. Then, since the Cloud has become a reality, it has surely changed the job of a developer. Buck Woody talks about how the Cloud impacts a Developer's…