10) Practical .NET: Powerful JavaScript With Upshot and Knockout
The Microsoft JavaScript Upshot library provides a simplified API for
retrieving data from the server and caching it at the client for reuse. Coupled
with Knockout, the two JavaScript libraries form the pillars of the Microsoft
client-side programming model.
9) On VB: Database Synchronization with the Microsoft Sync
Framework
The Microsoft Sync Framework is a highly flexible framework
for synchronizing files and data between a client and a master data store. With
great flexibility often comes complexity and confusion, however.
8) C# Corner: Performance Tips for Asynchronous Development in
C#
Visual Studio Async is a powerful development framework, but it's
important to understand how it works to avoid performance hits.
7) 2 Great JavaScript Data-Binding Libraries
JavaScript
libraries help you build powerful, data-driven HTML5 apps.
6) On VB: Entity Framework Code-First Migrations
Code First
Migrations allow for database changes to be implemented all through code.
Through the use of Package Manager Console (PMC), commands can be used to
scaffold database changes.
5) C# Corner: The New Read-Only Collections in .NET 4.5
Some
practical uses for the long-awaited interfaces, IReadOnlyList and
IReadOnlyDictionary, in .NET Framework 4.5.
4) C# Corner: Building a Windows 8 RSS Reader
Eric Vogel
walks through a soup-to-nuts demo for building a Metro-style RSS reader.
3) C# Corner: The Build Pattern in .NET
How to separate
complex object construction from its representation using the Builder design
pattern in C#.
2) Inside Visual Studio 11: A Guided Tour
Visual Studio 2012
(code-named Visual Studio 11 then) is packed with new features to help you be a
more efficient, productive developer. Here's your guided tour.
1) HTML5 for ASP.NET Developers
The technologies bundled as
HTML5 finally support what developers have been trying to get HTML to do for
decades.
