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The article discusses skills to build responsive Universal Windows Platform apps, managing how to use knowledge from HTML, CSS and JavaScript to build the apps, using responsive approaches to build apps for multiple form factors and using a single code base for cross-platform development.

The article looks at user interface frameworks which allow web sites to support mobile, tablet, and desktop with a single code base. Topics mentioned include an overview of the Boostrap framework that enables responsive web design, a brief background on the development of the framework which began in 1998, and details of advanced user interface features included in Boostrap and responsive navigation bar.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for developing a RESTful Web service operation for the Intenet in the Node.js programming language for access to a MongoDB database and how to deploy it to the Microsoft Azure Web Sites online service.

The article focuses on the association rule learning. Topics discussed include examples of association rule learning and its applications such as in purchasing transactions and user interface (UI) commands, how to determine frequent item-sets which are distinct and are not allowed to have duplicates, and the generation of candidate rules from frequent item sets which are later identified as high-confidence rules.

The article reports on using the Leaner CSS (LESS) Framework for creating Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) content in Web development. The author discusses the merits of using the LESS Framework and CSS Classes, as well as the "don't repeat yourself" (DRY) principle. It presents sample codes for displaying gradients on a wide range of browsers, showing mixins in the LESS, and gives tips for coding using the LESS Framework from setting up LESS in ASP.NET Model-View-Controller (MVC).

The article offers a description of the C# memory model. The author provides an explanation on how the C# memory model is being implemented on different architectures including the x86-x64 architecture, Itanium architecture and ARM architecture. Information on Microsoft.NET Framework 4.5 is also offered.

The article discusses Microsoft Visual Studio 2012's new features on web development. Project sharing is a feature which enables the user to interchangeably open old and new files without upgrading procedures. The Web Accessibility Initiative-Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) support allows users accessibility and ease with the HTML editor with its new 25 semantic tags. The new JavaScript editor supports ECMAScript 5 and allows collapsing and brace matching functions.

The article discusses Visual Studio 2012 Professional's integrated development environment (IDE) and its features. It notes of several changes seen in Visual Studio 2012 compared to the older versions such as its simpler writing code, monochromatic user interface (UI), and its menu display. The new version also features an access to code which enables the user a preview of the file. IntelliSense is also noted to have improved due to its more elaborate keyword match and search features.

The article discusses the proper configuration of the Management Extensibility Framework (MEF). It notes the use of RegistrationBuilder for conversion and definition of the convention of the code attributes. It also discusses the manipulation and utilization process of WeatherServiceView class to collaborate the data collection. Several figures are presented which include conventions setting, resource description definition, and overriding conventions using attributes.

The article discusses the changes and improvements in Microsoft's base class library (BCL) and Microft.Net Framwork 4.5. It notes the development of a new asynchronous programming model which incorporates Visual Basic's language and keywords. It states that the BCL's read-only collection interface comes with an optional feature pattern which enables users to choose. Figures are also presented which show asynchronous methods, .zip archives' support, and mutable collection interfaces.

ÁThe article offers an introduction to the Navigation for the ASP.NET Forms framework, and demonstrates some of its basic concepts by building a sample Web application. The Navigation framework allegedly eliminates thorns in the side of data binding related to navigation and data passing. The sample Web application is an online poll. One way to set up the survey Web project to use the Navigation framework is to install it using the NuGet Package Manager.

The article focuses on some of the features of the ASP.NET MVC 4, a number of which leverage the browser-agnostic capabilities of HTML5 and CSS3 to make it easier to develop sites aimed specifically at mobile browsers. One feature of ASP.NET MVC 4 is adaptive rendering, which is the process of displaying a Web site differently. Another features is creating views for specific browsers and devices. Other features include the JQuery Mobile and the Mobile Application project template.

The article explores some ideas around two pillars of responsive Web design, namely, fluid grids and flexible images. It offers an overview of some up-and-coming CSS layout modules and discusses some strategies for making non-textual elements such as images and embedded video adaptive. It also explores some popular frameworks for creating mobile Web applications and explains the use of HTML5 to build native applications.

The article focuses on the aspects and features of JsRender, a JavaScript library in computer programming. The author mentions that JSRender allows developers to define a boilerplate structure and reuse the structure for the generation of HTML. He adds that the library is also not dependent on jQuery and the Document Object Model (DOM), bringing a new kind of templating library to HTML5 development.

The article discusses the use of cascading style sheet 3 (CSS3) media queries in web development. The author provides an overview of the media queries CSS3 module and its implications to responsive web designs. He talsk about ways to leverage the CSS 3 module to build smartphone- and tablet-friendly web designs. He then offers tips significant for mobile web development.

The article reports on the selection of a device and application programming interface to help build a mobile application. It provides an illustration of the hybrid concept with an EffectiveUI application. It discusses the lessons on the optimization of touch-based user interface and mobile bandwidths. It offers information on the use of jQuery Mobile Framework, development of native application shells and the familiarity of a Web developer with the platform support of the Windows Phone.

The article discusses the use of HTML5 media in developing projects to display audio and video content. It notes that using HTML5 for media playback will increase a developer's HTML, CSS and JavScript skills. Several attributes of the HTML5 media were discussed including autoplay, loop, and controls. Some JavaScript Libraries for HTML5 video and audio were also included.

The article discusses model binding framework using the ASP.NET model-view controller (MVC) web application for web development. It explores the model binding limitations, model binding to complex objects, parts of model binding framework, the use of custom attributes and techniques in model binding as well as the common binding mistakes. The author emphasizes that understanding on the proper use of ASP.NET MVC model binding can have a large impact even on the simplest applications.

In this article the author discusses a multi-targeted password manager application and the use of injection frameworks. The technologies discussed include Portable Class Libraries, Windows Phone 7, Silverlight, and Microsoft .NET Framework. The author also describes the use of dependency injection (DI) frameworks and use cases, such as the UC0100-020 base use case and the UC0200-050 entities use case.

In this article the author discusses HTML5, a markup language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. Information is presented on the features, complexity, and importance of HTML5 to web developers, particularly developers who use Microsoft tools and technologies. The author also discusses HTML5 and Internet Explorer, as well as the adoption of HTML5 in one's applications.

The article discusses work solutions in using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) ComboBox and Date Picker features of the WPF DataGrid. The author identifies some user interface (UI) issues with the WPF DataGrid including a default behavior in the date column, and loss of control in the legacy data application. The author notes the importance of helping users do their jobs more effectively by minimizing mouse to keyboard dependence for the data grid.

The article presents an instruction in making a data-based enterprise website using Microsoft ASP.NET Dynamic Data. This Visual Studio project type utilizes both ASP.NET Routing and the Entity Framework to allow programmers to develop data-based websites quickly, wherein ASP.NET Routing lets a program answer to nonexistent uniform resource locators. ASP.NET Dynamic Data has a FieldTemplates folder that holds user controls for modifying fields of different data types while making websites, which are Boolean.ascx, Enumeration.ascx, and ForeignKey.ascx.

The author provides a guide for Web developers on how to write Application Programming Interface (API) documentation. He explores the major components of API documentation, which include overview, sample code and reference material. He advises developers about the benefits of using tutorials in understanding the process of creating a documentation that illustrates how the API works.

The author advises Web developers about the uses of the scalable multithreading technique, task-based programming. He explores the basic mechanisms in writing task class wrapper using the ThreadPool and SlimReaderWriterLock features in Windows Vista. He also explains the basics of how a tasking system works.

The article outlines the steps to migrate ASP.NET 1.1 software applications to Visual Studio 2010 and discusses several migration issues. Software developers have raised concern over the intention of Microsoft to migrate 1.1 Web applications to become Web Site Project (WSP) via its Conversion Wizard. Steps in migrating ASP.NET 1.1. applications using Visual Studio 2010 consists of running the Conversion Wizard, setting the target framework and startup page, compiling and fixing, and converting pages and user controls to partial classes.

The article discusses expando objects and dynamic objects which can support for dynamically defined types for the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is noted that such options have the potential to replace static typing as they are more direct to write without requiring any planning, writing and maintaining a Person class. Expando is defined as an inflatable object with a structure that is entirely defined at run time which in the .NET Framework 3 is built dynamically.

The article discusses the ASP.NET Ajax JavaScript components concerning the ASP.NET Ajax Library and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Data Services programming tools for Web developers. It says that the two JavaScript components connected to the Data Services are OpenDataServiceProxy and OpenDataContext. The ASP.NET Ajax Library live binding enables to display any data retrieved, ensuring live updates. It adds that insertions and deletions have differences and need more work.

The article focuses on .NET Core dependency injection (DI) capabilities and discusses how they enable an inversion of control (IoC) pattern.

The article offers information on Microsoft's ASP.NET. It states that the developers have created the ASP.NET Web Forms framework and the ASP.NET MVC framework for building Web applications. Details are presented regarding the changes in Web forms and its control. The ASP.NET MVC framework will be brought by the Visual Studio 2010. The MVC has a DefaultModelBinder, which moves data into model properties. It mentions that the MVC 2.0 has attributes like templates and data type annotations.

The article offers tips for Microsoft Silverlight 2 site development. It suggests taking extra careful to factor the resources and assemblies that the application uses and keep those that can be delay-loaded or downloaded on demand on the Web server. It also recommends to use WebClient or other classes of Siverlight's networking stack to download additional resources. It is also essential to avoid long-running loops on the user interface (UI) thread when modifying an XAML scene in the loop or if any animations are taking place at the same time. Moreover, it offers tips concerning the use of XamIreader.Load to create XAML objects dynamically.

The article explores the applications of Microsoft Corp.'s chart control for ASP.NET 3.5 SP1. It elaborates the topics on how to download the chart control and how it can be used to customize backgrounds, axes, titles, legends and labels. The chart control is used to generate data using queries written for LINQ to objects. It covered the application of technologies which include the template method design pattern, LINQ operators and JavaScript-compatible Windows Communication Foundation Web services.

The article discusses the concept of acceptance testing on the prerelease version of Microsoft Corp.'s IronRuby application. It demonstrates how acceptance testing can be automated using IronRuby and RSpec to verify Microsoft .NET applications and create an executable specification for the system. It is described that acceptance testing is more about verifying that the system under development meets the customer's requirements and less about reducing the number of bugs in code. Acceptance testing is about building what the customer or business wants.

The article offers information on how to separate the user interface (UI) from the data by using mature patterns for application design. It recommends to take a simple data entry application that enables the user to query for homes for sale in a particular city. It is also essential to keep in mind that the unit testing is continuing to work in a system. Meanwhile, it offers an example which helps to understand how to implement the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM), which is considered as especially important because it wraps the access to the data.

The article offers details about the features of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 8. It discusses the new end user features of Internet Explorer 8 which include Web Slices, Accelerators and search suggestions. The user features have a more adavanced developer features including AJAX navigation and DOM storage. It elaborates how the user features and developer features allow the user to define portions of a page and control its update frequency and expiration, and improve the user's search and navigation experience.

The article discusses the characteristics of the jQuery library. The library, written by John Resig, makes JavaScript code easier and quicker to write and provides helper functions that dramatically increase the productivity while decreasing the frustration. It indicates that the download site offers three versions of the library such as uncompressed, packed and minimized. Moreover, the library's functionality is divided into four areas, including the Document Object Model (DOM) query and manipulation, AJAX, effects and animation, and core functions for working with arrays, filtering data and detecting browser capabilities.

The article discusses Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), why Model-View-View-Model is better for WPF, and how to build a professional software application with MVVM. It evaluates several of the best practices for designing and implementing client applications with WPF. It presents an example program that shows just how simple it can be to create a WPF application the proper way by leveraging some core features of WPF in conjunction with the MVVM design pattern. It mentions that demonstration program accompanying the article can serve as a template for real WPF application that utilizes MVVM as its core architecture.

The article reports that Microsoft Corp. has released the details around numerous improvements that will ship in the Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.0 specifically in the areas of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow (WF) Foundation. Microsoft Corp. has also debuted some extensions to Windows Server that provide an improved hosting and management experience for WCF and WF applications. The integration of WF and WCF in the .NET Framework will make it simpler to develop distributed service-oriented applications.

The article reports that the Silverlight team has developed a new security model that makes it impossible for applications to call into any security-critical class in the Core Common Language Runtime. It illustrates how users can generate XAML dynamically and discusses how to enable application features dynamically on a strictly per-user request basis. Some application-specific features that are heavy to implement with the main stream of code can then be implemented separately and downloaded separately and still be easily integrated with the primary user interface.

The article argues that a common trick for understanding how an object works is to inspect it using the reflection capabilities of the Microsoft .NET Framework. It mentions that .NET reflection also works on COM objects. An example of code that uses .NET reflection to obtain and display a list of members in the object is presented. It shows the relevant entities and files that are examined when the presented reflection code is executed. COM utilizes the TYPEDESC in describing some types and ITypeInfo to describe others.

The article highlights the advantages and disadvantages of ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 support for data-driven web applications. It notes that many tasks can be already performed in the browser instead on the server, which resulted to lower bandwidth consumption, fewer round trips to the server, as well as more responsive and faster Web user interfaces. However, the main problem is that the browser is lacking tools to convert data into hypertext markup language (HTML). Other topics discussed include server-side data manipulation, UpdatePanel and the client, reducing postbacks and payloads, and client-side template rendering.

The article focuses on AJAX service layer. It mentions that AJAX and Silverlight have a two-tiered architecture with the front and back ends separated by the Internet, which may result for an unauthorized access between the two layers. Due to this, the author introduces the service layer, an additional layer of code that creates a boundary between two other layers. He declares that an extra layer of service called the AJAX service layer, which consists of ASMX Web services, Window's Communication Foundation (WCF) or representational state transfer (REST), can prevent some of the unauthorized access. Ways on how to implement security in the AJAX service layer are also discussed.

The article offers information on how to safely share a persistence database across applications and how to leverage parts of a framework like the ChannelManagerService for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). The ChannelManagerService class, from the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, is a runtime service that is added into Workflow-Runtime to provide better support for the Send activity. This service offers client channel caching in workflow instances and configures client endpoints by code. In safely sharing a SQL persistence service, the user must save next timer in the database table with the workflow state.

The article reviews several software for Microsoft Corp.'s Web applications including the VSTS Web Access 2008 Power Tool, the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Foundation Server Power Tools and the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition.

The article offers information on how to design craft custom controls, SimpleButton, with the Windows' Presentation Foundation (WPF) control model for Silverlight 2 Web technology from Microsoft Corp. The first procedure in designing WPF craft customs controls is to enable Visual Studio 2008 and then add a C# class to represent the control. This step of adding a control class is to inherit basic control functionality. However, this can also be derive from Control derivatives like ContentControl and ItemsControl. The next steps involve creating a control template and a default control template, adding of template bindings, replacing TextBlock with ContentPresenter, adding a Click event and Visual states.

The article offers information on the Silverlight Web technology from Microsoft Inc. The author focuses on the important points in producing and interacting with a Silverlight InkPresenter control, performing handwriting recognition, and storing and retrieving the XAML representation of the annotations through services. The possibility of using video was also presented through Silverlight animation and triggers to play back strokes. The InkPresenter control could also enable Internet users to draw directly onto Silverlight applications from their browser.

The article discusses the definition of data services and security, the aspects of data exposure and consumption and the description of data with the Entity Data Model (EDM). In describing a ADO.NET Data Service through EDM terms, two primary concepts, entities and associations will be utilized. The efficiency of EDM is because it can very well map to the primary Web concepts of resources and links. This application was developed with the objective of becoming the core data model across a suite of developer and server technologies.

The article discusses the most common object role stereotypes systems that are applied in real-world examples and well-known design patterns. The author suggests that understanding the object role stereotypes of existing classes can help one know where to assign new responsibilities and give additional clues for when a completely new class should be added to the system. Types of Responsibility-Driven Design (RDD) stereotypes include information holder, which made calculations from the data that it stores; structurer, recognizes the relationships between other objects; controller, controls and directs the actions of other objects; coordinator, reacts to events and relays the events to other objects; and, service provider, does service for other objects upon request.

The article offers information on how to program AJAX software with ASP.NET partial rendering. The increased complexity of AJAX applications has prompted developers to realize that plain script-driven and out-of-band calls are not insufficient to create a new generation of Web applications in a cost-effective method. Since AJAX involves trade-offs between application performance and developer productivity. Since real-world AJAX sites are not built with either partial rendering or manual scripting of the XMLHttpRequest object.

The article provides information about Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It looks at the functionality of WPF. WPF offers excellent support for managing the display and editing of complex data. It explores more advanced data binding scenarios. It discusses various ways in implementing common data binding requirements seen in most line-of-business applications. One biggest change that WPF introduces for desktop application developers is the extensive use of declarative programming. WPF user interfaces and resources can be declared using Extensible Application Markup Language.

The article looks into client-side templates and data-binding in relation to ASP.NET AJAX applications. The ASP.NET AJAX applications partial rendering key feature is its inherent simplicity, which enables lower impact on existing pages and fewer demands on developers' skills. Topics covered include the typical functions of AJAX, limits of partial rendering, reconsidering the Live Quote Page, Client-Side Templating in ASP.NET AJAX, the Browser-side templating pattern and the HTML message pattern.