March 2012

Volume 27 Number 03

March 2012 Code Downloads

 

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.
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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.
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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.

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.
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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.

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.
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Touch and Go - Streaming Audio in Windows Phone

Charles Petzold looks into streaming audio on Windows Phone. This occurs through a class derived from MediaStreamSource, which feeds the audio data to the OS’s audio player on demand. Petzold shows how to stream audio in the background on Windows Phone OS 7.5.
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Windows 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 Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus.
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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.
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