SDL:   Using the SDL for a LOB Windows 8 App, Part 2
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

MVVM:   Commands, RelayCommands, EventToCommand
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

UX By Design:   Is UX Investment Worth It?
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

Patterns in Practice:   Adding Functionality to an Object: Building the Objects
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

Leading LightSwitch:   Hello, Colors
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

ASP.NET:   Leverage Multiple Code Frameworks with One ASP.NET
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

Microsoft .NET Framework:   Migrating Legacy .NET Libraries to Target Modern Platforms
.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

Windows Phone:   Windows Phone Video Capture: A Best-of-Breed Approach
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

SharePoint 2013:   Understanding and Using the SharePoint 2013 REST Interface
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

CLR:   Shortest-Path Graph Analysis Using a CLR Stored Procedure
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