http://www.msdnmagazine.com Thank You for subscribing to our RSS Feed. en-us © 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Sat, 25 May 2013 22:34:46 GMT Sat, 25 May 2013 22:34:46 GMT 1440 "http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/images/tnlogo.gif" http://www.msdnmagazine.com http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/0967f82f-b61a-4b9d-ba9a-ec2cd5925a53 http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/0967f82f-b61a-4b9d-ba9a-ec2cd5925a53 May 2013<br/><br/>Some aspects of working with managed code in Windows Store apps may surprise traditional .NET developers. One way to support structured messaging between the JavaScript layer and managed code is to rely on JSON objects. This article shows how to read JSON objects and hydrate strongly typed objects with the incoming values. Craig Shoemaker 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/94e8370b-7c8c-4d65-9cec-b49c9518e3fb http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/94e8370b-7c8c-4d65-9cec-b49c9518e3fb May 2013<br/><br/>Jeffrey Fritz demonstrates how you can use all four major ASP.NET code frameworks -- ASP.NET Web Forms, MVC and WebAPI, and SignalR -- together to create a cohesive solution. Jeff Fritz 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/a249e6c5-f7c7-4f2e-81bd-87716859fdc6 http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/a249e6c5-f7c7-4f2e-81bd-87716859fdc6 May 2013<br/><br/>.NET libraries that have served you well for years can prove equally useful in today’s new environments—provided you’re willing to expend the migration effort needed. Using the Sterling NoSQL OODB, Josh Lane looks at forward migration patterns and best practices that minimize potential difficulties and maximize opportunities for reuse across platforms. Josh Lane 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/bd4f91a1-bdeb-4a19-a9a0-3a1dd03b6545 http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/bd4f91a1-bdeb-4a19-a9a0-3a1dd03b6545 May 2013<br/><br/>Learn how to maintain your Windows Phone 7.5 project while giving a richer experience to your Windows Phone 8 users. The techniques discussed here go beyond video capture to apply to any of the APIs reinvented for Windows Phone 8. Chris Barker 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/0c6950f1-255d-4258-b948-ca567fb2e542 http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/0c6950f1-255d-4258-b948-ca567fb2e542 May 2013<br/><br/>The SharePoint 2013 REST interface is extensive and powerful enough to provide most of what Web and mobile app developers will want to do. This article shows you how you can integrate SharePoint into your applications using the REST interface. Jim Crowley, Ricky Kirkham 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/feff4c24-0c41-42ae-ac35-83d1c6b9aea2 http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/feff4c24-0c41-42ae-ac35-83d1c6b9aea2 May 2013<br/><br/>Graph analysis is becoming increasingly important in software applications, and this article shows how to perform shortest-path analysis with techniques that can also be used for many other data-access programming tasks. James McCaffrey 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/ae3aabff-e08b-426a-af57-65c47e11aad1 http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/ae3aabff-e08b-426a-af57-65c47e11aad1 May 2013<br/><br/>In the era of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, developers can't afford to ignore the importance of design anymore Michael Desmond 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/4d104e34-4bbe-4191-b168-d828e59c7b01 http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/4d104e34-4bbe-4191-b168-d828e59c7b01 May 2013<br/><br/>ASP.NET MVC 4 now includes an ad hoc framework to authenticate users via a number of social networks, and Dino Esposito shows you how. Dino Esposito 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/7367c0d9-6554-4c44-9460-08125b71cbe4 http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/7367c0d9-6554-4c44-9460-08125b71cbe4 May 2013<br/><br/>Direct 2D has taken a major step forward, and is now supported on Windows 8, Windows RT, Windows Phone 8 and, now, Windows 7. Kenny Kerr explains how D2D 1.1 works and how to get started using it. Kenny Kerr 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/4859ca4b-a904-49e6-abab-9ad94da3451c http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/4859ca4b-a904-49e6-abab-9ad94da3451c May 2013<br/><br/>Windows Azure blobs are very useful for storing video assets, but sometimes different levels of access are required based on location or domain. This article shows you how to manage these requirements by creating a reverse proxy server in Windows Azure. Bruno Terkaly, Ricardo Villalobos 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/2dc13a53-18a3-4f66-a6dd-fc0c1ce41ac4 http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/2dc13a53-18a3-4f66-a6dd-fc0c1ce41ac4 May 2013<br/><br/>James McCaffrey presents a powerful new clustering algorithm that is relatively simple to implement, has worked well in practice, can be applied to both numeric and categorical data, and scales well to huge data sets. James McCaffrey 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/d531d131-4d15-4f72-b7b5-e0fc5e14fe61 http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/d531d131-4d15-4f72-b7b5-e0fc5e14fe61 May 2013<br/><br/>Charles Petzold explains how you can alter the harmonic composition of sound through the use of filters and he shows how to accomplish this using XAudio2 in Windows 8. Charles Petzold 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/250e0e66-a11f-406b-ba15-a37e1139b5bc http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/250e0e66-a11f-406b-ba15-a37e1139b5bc May 2013<br/><br/>When Microsoft ignores its own UI design guidelines in Windows 8, it can only sow confusion. David Platt 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/0efffc65-284d-4813-94ce-0ed73bfb7726 http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/0efffc65-284d-4813-94ce-0ed73bfb7726 May 2013<br/><br/>Even with design patterns, eventually, you have to stop building infrastructure and actually implement some functionality. Peter starts to create the SalesOption objects that will add functionality to OrderLine objects when that functionality is needed. Peter Vogel 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/e6283228-4d30-4eb7-a85c-743f3741ac7c http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/e6283228-4d30-4eb7-a85c-743f3741ac7c May 2013<br/><br/>Find out how you can use LightSwitch to add some color to your mobile apps to make them more visually appealing. Jan Van der Haegen 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/a193471d-93c6-4006-bde5-36005cdaf71d http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/a193471d-93c6-4006-bde5-36005cdaf71d May 2013<br/><br/>Join UX expert Billy Hollis to find out how a designing a better user experience for your line-of-business application can increase productivity, revenue, and customer satisfaction and retention as well as decrease training time. Billy Hollis 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/6a262507-7089-4961-bfb5-8d18c774d048 http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/6a262507-7089-4961-bfb5-8d18c774d048 May 2013<br/><br/>Part 2 of a two-part series, this article examines the design phase of the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) and describes its three critical components: developing an attack surface analysis and an attack surface reduction and performing a software architectural risk analysis, or threat model. Tim Kulp 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/5eafc6fc-713a-4461-bc2b-469afdd03c31 http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/5eafc6fc-713a-4461-bc2b-469afdd03c31 May 2013<br/><br/>In this article, I would like to take a closer look at one of the important components of any Model-View-ViewModel applications: the command. Laurent Bugnion 05/01/2013 00:00:00 GMT