Editor’s note: The following post was written by SharePoint MVP Jean Paul SharePoint 2013 introduced a new feature called Apps. Apps are self-contained pieces of functionality that extends the capabilities of a SharePoint website. Apps will be executed outside the SharePoint Server...

  1. C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Parallel.Invoke() Method By Visual C# James Michael Hare – @ BlkRabbitCoder 2. Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming Part 4 – Load Distribution By Virtual Machine MVP Aidan Finn – @ joe_elway 3. Splash Screens in Windows Phone 8–Who moved my cheese? By Silverlight MVP...

Editor’s Note: In partnership with Microsoft Press, MVPs have been contributing to an ongoing guest series on their official team blog. Today’s article is from Visual C# MVP Peter Ritchie which is the 22nd in the series Different deployment options in Windows 8 If you're used to some other app store...

1. Deploying Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 on Azure – Introduction By Dynamics GP MVP Mariano Gomez - @dgpblogster 2. [Windows (Phone) 8] Using SignalR in Windows (Phone) 8 apps! BY Client App Dev MVP Thomas Lebrun - @thomas_lebrun 3. FriendlyURL : A new and exciting feature...

  How long have you been an MVP? Second year Which technical community or communities are you most active in? SDN ( www.sdn.nl ): where I organize events and magazines, enabling others to write and present. Idem http://www.code-camp.nl http://blogs.msmvps.com/marcelmeijer/ http://www.marcelmeijer...

1. Force Metro App Update Check in Windows 8 Release Preview Windows Store By Windows Expert – Consumer MVP Richard Hay - @WinObs This article covers how the Windows Store periodically checks for updates to any Metro Apps you have installed on your system but there maybe times that you would...

We're going a little more international with our blog authors this week to give you a feel for what our worldwide MVPs are talking about. 1. Here's What's Right With Windows 8 By ASP.NET MVP Chris Love | @chrislove Provides Chris's perspective on the approach taken with Windows 8. 2. HDFS...

C#如今已经发展到5.0版本，CLR版本为4.5，伴随Visual Studio 2011发布。我总结了一个进化图，以供大家参考。 在C# 5.0中主要增加了Async Programming 以及Caller Information两个特性，以下分别作介绍。 Async Feature 在C# 5.0新增了 async 修饰符以及 await 操作符；标记有async的方法被称为异步方法。 异步编程可以给我们带来很大的便利。比如在WinForm编程中，当我们使用HttpWebRequest请求网络资源的时候， 如果使用同步请求，那么如果请求响应时间过长，会导致我们的UI线程堵塞...

Introduction of New Features in C# 5.0 1. C# Evolution Matrix Microsoft just published a new version of C# : 5.0 beta with CLR version 4.5 (Visual Studio 11 beta). In order to get a big picture of the whole evolution of C# language, I summarized all the key features into a C# Evolution Matrix...

French MVP Olivier Dewit is the author of a new book entitled, “WPF avec C#, WPF - Développez des applications riches sous Windows”. Published in French, the book is a complete course in programming for Rich Application Development for Windows. The book is designed for .NET developers who wish to build...

Indonesian Visual C# MVP Agus Kurniawan is the C# community leader for the Indonesia .NET Developer Community (INDC) . Agus has created an exciting new open source project called “Indihiang”. The project is an Internet Information Server (IIS) Log Analyzer and is designed to help I.T. administrators...

How would you like to build an Xbox game, use your Nintendo Wiimote to create an electronic whiteboard, or build your own peer-to-peer application? Coding4Fun helps you tackle some cool software and hardware projects using a range of free Microsoft software. Now you can code for fun with C#, VB, Lua...

Christmas is fast approaching! Are you looking for a small programming challenge over the winter break? Have you thought about controlling your Christmas tree lights with C# and .NET? Or create a tiny, connected data logger that integrates into your company network? Or, anything in between? Well, take...