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THE MICROSOFT JOURNAL FOR DEVELOPERS
JULY 2013 VOL 28 NO 7
How Microsoft’s Next-Gen Compiler
Project Can Improve Your Code
Jason Bock ...................................................................... 34
Leveraging Windows 8 Features with MVVM
Brent Edwards .................................................................42
Create a Windows Phone 8
Company Hub App
Tony Champion ............................................................... 56
Building Apps for Windows 8
and Windows Phone 8
Joel Reyes ....................................................................... 64
Build Modern Business Productivity Apps
with Visual Studio LightSwitch
Jan Van der Haegen and Beth Massi ...................................70
COLUMNS
CUTTING EDGE
Creating Mobile-Optimized
Views in ASP.NET MVC 4
Dino Esposito, page 6
DATA POINTS
Behavior-Driven Design
with SpecFlow
Julie Lerman, page 12
WINDOWS AZURE INSIDER
Meter and Autoscale
Multi-Tenant Applications
in Windows Azure
Bruno Terkaly and
Ricardo Villalobos, page 22
MODERN APPS
Mastering Controls and
Settings in Windows Store Apps
Built with JavaScript
Rachel Appel, page 78
DIRECTX FACTOR
Simulating an
Analog Synthesizer
Charles Petzold, page 82
DON’T GET ME STARTED
Activation Energy
David Platt, page 88
Inside the “Roslyn”
Project Compiler..................34
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NUMBER
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