MSDN Magazine: March 2012

Emerging standards like HTML5 and Web sockets are enabling rich integration and control of devices and endpoints and laying the foundation for the Internet of Things. Learn how you can use your .NET skills at the device level to feed data into the powerful analytics capabilities of StreamInsight.
Torsten Grabs
Colin Miller

Touch and Go:
Streaming Audio in Windows Phone

Every month Charles Petzold explores Windows Phone and touch-based UI development. In this issue he shows how to stream audio in the background on Windows Phone OS 7.5.
Charles Petzold

Online Features and Columns

Web Dev Report: Manage Data in HTML5 Forms with Entity Framework
Rachel Appel digs deeper into her look at creating mobile-friendly HTML5 forms in ASP.NET MVC 4 projects, collecting feedback data and saving it back to a database using Entity Framework.
Rachel Appel

Azure Insider: Node.js: Cloud Scaling Goodness for I/O Operations
The new Azure Insider column kicks off with a look at Node.js, the exciting server-side JavaScript environment that can help scale your cloud applications
Bruno Terkaly

Leading LightSwitch: Consume a LightSwitch OData Service from a Windows Phone application
Jan Van der Haegen's first LightSwitch column explores one of the key features added in the beta release of the tool--the ability to create and consume OData services, which can in turn be consumed from any client, including custom Windows Phone applications.
Jan Van der Haegen

Coded UI: Test Automation Using Visual Studio 2010 Coded UI
Leverage the coded UI features of Visual Studio 2010 to enable a continuous, consistent and standard approach to automation for build, deploy and test.
Raj Kamal

Editor's Note
What You Want
It's a serious challenge, balancing coverage of important new tools and technologies with those developers rely on every day.
Michael Desmond

Cutting Edge
Build a Progress Bar with SignalR
SignalR, a jQuery plug-in being developed by the ASP.NET MVC team, presents some extremely promising functionality currently missing from the Microsoft .NET Framework.
Dino Esposito

Data Points
Entity Framework Code First and DbContext FAQs
Lots of people have lots of questions about Code First and DbContext in Entity Framework 4.2. This month, Julie Lerman shares the answers to some of the most common ones.
Julie Lerman

Forecast: Cloudy
Exploring Cloud Architecture
Joseph Fultz uses Azure as the context in which to explore general architectural considerations and some base high-level designs for creating cloud-based solutions.
Joseph Fultz

The Working Programmer
Talk to Me, Part 2: ELIZA
Ted Neward builds on the example in his last column with a side trip into artificial intelligence. Read on as he uses F# to create Feliza, a chatterbot based on ELIZA.
Ted Neward

Client Insight
Knockout's Built-in Bindings for HTML and JavaScript
John Papa continues his exploration of the Knockout JavaScript library by delving into a number of the built-in bindings it offers.
John Papa

Don't Get Me Started
Touch, Not the Mouse
Touch is excellent for selecting among alternatives presented on-screen, but it's not the best solution in many cases.
David Platt

This Month's Features

Building HTML5 Applications: Adding HTML5 Drag and Drop to SharePoint Lists
SharePoint doesn’t have any built-in HTML5 goodness, but don’t let that stop you. Andrey Markeev demonstrates how easy it is to add HTML5 drag-and-drop support to SharePoint—and why that’s just the beginning.
Andrey Markeev

C++: New Concurrency Features in Visual C++ 11
Explore the new Visual C++ technologies that allow applications to run independent or semi-independent activities in parallel and provide mechanisms for synchronizing the way these activities handle data to avoid race conditions.
Diego Dagum

Azure AppFabric Service Bus: Create a Continuous Client Using Portable Class Libraries
David Kean shows how to build a simple continuous client application that spans multiple devices and platforms, using the new Portable Class Libraries and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus.
David Kean

Windows Phone: Windows Phone Data Binding
Jesse Liberty shows the strength of XAML programming as he discusses hands-on code for data binding against runtime data, design-time data and binding one control to another.
Jesse Liberty

ASP.NET MVC 3: Develop Hybrid Native and Mobile Web Apps
Shane Church shows you how to build a mobile Web application with ASP.NET MVC 3 and take advantage of native mobile features such as the camera and accelerometer.
Shane Church