What do you do when marketing comes to you needing a fully functional conference registration system for a show just a month away? You leverage Windows Azure, Silverlight and Windows Phone to build an app with all the social media trimmings, as Microsoft's Mark Kromer details here.
Mark Kromer Kenny Kerr describes a technique to write asynchronous code in C or C++ without the use of a runtime.
Kenny Kerr FeaturesC++: Functional-Style Programming in C++
The new C++ 11 standard greatly improves the language’s suitability for functional-style programming, particularly with its support for lambdas. Learn how you can use functional-style programming in your C++ code.
David Cravey CLR: .NET Development for ARM Processors
Coding in the .NET Framework means that you don’t normally have to worry about the many differences between ARM and x86-based processors. But there are a few fundamental design differences that may affect your code, as CLR team insider Andrew Pardoe explains here.
Andrew Pardoe ColumnsData Points
Pitfalls and Pointers for a Base Logging Class in EF Models
An unfortunate use of a base class to provide logging data for all classes in an Entity Data Model creates chaos in the database. Learn why this happens and how to avoid the problem.
Julie Lerman Cutting Edge
Mobile Site Development, Part 3: Routing Requests
Dino Esposito explains how to route Web site visitors between the desktop and mobile versions of a site so they can easily jump between the two.
Dino Esposito Forecast: Cloudy
Decoupling the Cloud with MEF
Learn how to use the Microsoft Extensibility Framework to make a cloud deployment a little more manageable and flexible.
Joseph Fultz The Working Programmer
Cassandra NoSQL Database: Getting Started
Ted Neward explores Cassandra (the NoSQL database software, not the figure from Greek mythology), which is “an open-source, distributed, decentralized, elastically scalable, highly-available, fault-tolerant, tuneably consistent, column-oriented database that bases its distribution design on Amazon’s Dynamo and its data model on Google’s Bigtable.”
Ted Neward Touch and Go
Viewing a Virtual World from Your Windows Phone
Although we no longer believe that celestial spheres surround the Earth, that’s still a handy concept for programs that let you use a smartphone to view a virtual world. Such a program needs to determine its orientation in 3D space, and Charles Petzold explains how to accomplish this using the horizontal coordinate system.
Charles Petzold Editor's Note
On Point with Julie Lerman
Michael Desmond profiles Data Points columnist, Julie Lerman.
Michael Desmond By the NumbersTracking interesting data about MSDN Magazine articles, and other related topics Top 10 Most Used Core Framework Members
Based on API calls and instantiation of types in common managed applications ** the member translation of typeof (GetType in VB)
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