June 2012
Volume 27 Number 06
June 2012 Code Downloads
June 2012
| ASP.NET - Unit Testing in the Navigation for ASP.NET Web Forms Framework The article will demonstrate the benefits of having a consistent approach to navigation and data passing in a Web Forms application, showing how this bears fruit when building Single-Page Interfaces. Although all the current buzz is around ASP.NET MVC, it will present a compelling argument for using the Navigation for ASP.NET Web Forms project I host on codeplex together with standard ASP.NET Ajax and DataBinding. |
| Data Points - Data Bind OData in Web Apps with Knockout.js Knockout.js brings many benefits to client side web apps. Julie Lerman looks at leveraging it to perform data binding with OData. |
SQL Server - Custom Indexing for Latitude-Longitude Data (no longer available) |
| Test Run - Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms Why should you be interested in evolutionary optimization algorithms? There are at least three good reasons, James McCaffrey points out, and he shows you how to code them. |
| Touch and Go - Getting Oriented with the Windows Phone Compass Smartphones get lots of input from the world through their sensors, but you can get even more by combining those sensors, as Charles Petzold shows with an example that combines the compass and accelerometer. |
| Windows Azure - Democratizing Video Content with Windows Azure Media Services This article focuses on how to provide a scalable, video streaming service with little or no upfront investment in hardware or infrastructure. We walk through a step-by-step process using Windows Azure Media Services and a Web-based client. For consumers, a Facebook implementation of these technologies will be presented. |
| Windows Phone - Behind the Scenes: A Windows Phone Feed-Reader App See exactly how a group of Microsoft interns developed a robust Windows Phone feed-reader app with the latest technologies such as local database, background agent, Live Tiles and more. |