MVVM:   Maximizing the Visual Designer’s Usage with Design-Time Data
In his third MVVM article, Laurent Bugnion explains how you can simulate nonstatic data even at design time by tricking the visual designer into executing some design-time-only code.
Laurent Bugnion

SDL:   Using the SDL for LOB Windows 8 Apps
Part 1 of a two-part series, this article examines the planning phase of the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL). The article examines how to build security into a Windows Store project, describing how to compile a risk assessment and identify security and privacy requirements.
Tim Kulp

Patterns in Practice:   Adding Functionality to an Object: Loading the Right Classes
In this column, Peter Vogel continues his exploration of implementing the roles pattern in a typical business scenario by using Microsoft’s Managed Extensibility Framework to select and load the SalesOption objects that the design pattern requires.
Peter Vogel

Leading LightSwitch:   Hello, Mobile
Microsoft makes getting started with HTML5 even easier in the latest LightSwitch update.
Jan Van der Haegen

ALM Rangers:   Simplifying the Configuration of Lab Management 2012
Find out how to set up and configure Lab Management 2012 to maximize the benefits of each component and technology involved.
Micheal Learned

Microsoft Office:   Exploring the JavaScript API for Office: Data Binding and Custom XML Parts
Here’s part 3 of a series of four in-depth walkthroughs exploring the JavaScript API for Office, focusing on data binding and support for working with custom XML parts.
Stephen Oliver
Eric Schmidt

TFS:   Building and Validating Windows Store Apps with Team Foundation Service
Learn how to use Team Foundation Service to build your Windows Store apps and validate them using the Windows Apps Certification Kit.
Thomas LeBrun

ALM Rangers:   A Treasure Hunt Through ALM Readiness
Learn the UX design considerations, coding principles and techniques the ALM Rangers used in developing an instructional Windows Store “treasure map” app to help increase ALM proficiency.
ALM Rangers

CLR:   Classification and Prediction Using Adaptive Boosting
James McCaffrey explain a fascinating technique called adaptive boosting classification, which uses training data to generate a large collection of very simple rules of thumb that are then weighted and combined to improve their predictive quality.
James McCaffrey