Microsoft unveiled its development strategy for Windows 8 at its BUILD conference last month in Anaheim. One of the biggest development shifts was the announcement of the Windows Runtime (WinRT).

A set of ready-made software routines (class definitions) that programmers use for writing object-oriented programs. For example, a class library is commonly available to provide graphical user ...

Case matters when moving from one language to another and, often, variable naming conflicts can be as simple as that. The very first programming language I used back in high school did not permit ...