Welcome to a new episode of the Facebook integration for Windows Store App series. Christophe Nasarre, a French Premier Field Engineer is explaining how to get access to a Facebook feed and post messages and links. For your convenience, here’s...

Our developer specialist from Malaysia, Jonathan Yong , is explaining how to list the assemblies loaded by a particular Web Application in IIS in this detailed blog post. Read on! When helping customer to migrate ASP.NET application, we need...

Premier Field Engineer Brad Linscott raises awareness of a relatively new feature in the Debugging Tools for Windows package that makes it much easier to identify the executing piece of JavaScript code from a user mode dump file: read his blog post !

Hello everyone and welcome to a new episode of the Facebook integration for Windows Store App series. Christophe Nasarre, a French Premier Field Engineer is explaining how to list the photos of Facebook albums and how the paging mechanism works. The source...

Hello everyone and welcome to a new episode of the Facebook integration for Windows Store App series. Christophe Nasarre, a French Premier Field Engineer is explaining how to list the photo albums of a Facebook profile. He will detail the photo enumeration...

Welcome to a new episode of the Windows Store App Development blog about integrating Facebook to your App presented by Christophe Nasarre, a French Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. You will see today how to access basic account information such as the...

In this video, Gianluca Bertelli, an Escalation Engineer from Italy, will show you how to integrate Facebook within our Windows Store Applications – Using the class WebAuthenticationBroker to authenticate the users with any authentication provider that...

Welcome to a new episode of the Windows Store App Development blog! I’m Christophe Nasarre and with my Italian collegue, GianLuca Bertelli, we are starting a short series about how to access Facebook services in Windows Store Apps. Today, I’m...

Here is a new video post about Windows Store Apps by David Coppet (Twitter: @DavidCoppet), our PFE and an Azure expert based in France. In this session, David is detailing the different ways to send notifications and update live tiles for both Windows...

This is the conclusion of Paul Cociuba’s 12-part series on ASP.NET 4.5. It has been a long journey, and for those who’ve missed out on previous parts, we’ve also linked the entire series at the end of this post. To finish the implementation of the application...

Paul Cociuba shows us how to implement the Repository Pattern in ASP.NET 4.5. In the last two videos of the series, we will focus on implementing the repository pattern for the sample application. This pattern is a way in which we can structure the code...

This is part 10 of Paul Cociuba’s series on ASP.NET 4.5. In this chapter, I want to focus on how the revamped data-controls from ASP.Net 4.5 can sort and paginate data using Entity Framework context as a starting point. I will focus on the GridView controls...

As promised, Paul Cociuba is back with part 9 of his series on ASP.NET – and this time he discusses improvements in validation controls in ASP.NET 4.5. User input validation is an essential part of any data-driven web-application, and ASP.net exposes...

It is July – and for us at Microsoft that signals the end of one fiscal year and the start of a new one. It has been a bit busy for us and hence the pause in our activity. We resume now with Part 8 of Paul Cociuba’s ASP.NET series. So far in the tutorial...

This is the seventh part of Paul Cociuba ’s series on ASP.net 4.5. In this we will look at a feature that is more commonly associated with ASP.net MVC – URL routing. URL routing first became available in the .Net Framework 3.5, and was used heavily in...

Paul Cociuba is back with the 6th part of his ASP.NET 4.5 journey. As promised last time around he will look at CRUD operations using strongly typed data binding. In this video I will continue how to use strongly typed data binding features from ASP.net...

Jonathan Yong is back with this quick ‘tip of the day’. Relevant if you are migrating an older COM+ application to Windows 2008 or above. If you have a COM+ component which is called by classic ASP page and after you migrate the application to IIS 7.x...

MVC purists may bristle at discussion of State and many would balk at the idea of leveraging Session variables in your MVC application. However, in the real-world, State is necessary. Stateless persistence can often be achieved through use of TempData...

The Editor and Display templates in MVC are very similar to partial views. They display data based on the model provided. You may have seen DisplayFor or EditorFor when you scaffold a View in MVC. You could customize DisplayFor to display an editable...

Paul Cociuba , continues to take us through the ASP.Net 4.5 Journey. In his fifth video, he will guide us through the “ Strongly typed Data Binding ”. Paul, the stage is yours… This video will continue to explore data-binding in ASP.net 4.5 by looking...

A Famous Developer Quote says: Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Building Complex Applications with ASP.net Can be a challenge but becomes a lot easier with DataControls. Let´s join Paul Cociuba...

If you ask a developer how to become “W ealthy ” in an object-oriented way, they might tell you that it´s “ Inheritance ”. One of the most important things for a Developers is to think in an object oriented Fashion.  In his third video, Paul Cociuba...

The great North American Cold Wave has retreated, and our man is back! In this video tutorial Robert Evans walks you through creating a shared style and using Blend together with Visual Studio 2013 to create Implicit and Explicit Styles. He also shows...

In this video post, Robert Evans uses tools such as Process Explorer and more to show you the internals behind Windows Store Apps: Process Lifetime Management, the Runtime Broker and the Suspension Manager. He also shows you how to use the PLMDebug utility...

Happy New Year to all our readers and visitors! We wish you the very best in your development adventures in the year ahead!   Robert Evans is back again – this time he shows us how to construct a Windows Store application which manipulates images...