Telerik Developer Digest Issue 18: October 28, 2015

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Issue 18

October 28, 2015

Telerik Developer Digest

Welcome

Welcome to the latest collection of the best articles from the Telerik Developer Network and around the web, curated by a group of Telerik developers just like you.

From the Telerik Developer Network

Defining a New Breed of Cross-Platform Mobile Apps

TJ VanToll & Brian Rinaldi discuss the current ecosystem for mobile app development from native, hybrid & cross-compiled to the new JavaScript Native apps.

Telerik Developer Network

Building Mobile Apps with Visual Studio (Session Recording)

Michael Crump looks at the options for .Net developers to build mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows Universal.

Telerik Developer Network

Building Touch Apps With UI for WPF (Session Recording)

Michael Crump takes a standard WPF app and turns it into an application that responds to various gestures.

Telerik Developer Network

Building Offline Ready Mobile Apps (Session Recording)

Hristo Borisov explores different techniques for taking your mobile apps offline while providing a seamless experience.

Telerik Developer Network

NativeScript Under the Hood (Podcast)

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, guest TJ VanToll talks about the inner-workings of NativeScript.

Telerik Developer Network

6 Rules for Awesome Data Visualizations with Kendo UI

John Bristowe discusses a set of guidelines and recommendations for improving data visualizations built with Kendo UI.

Telerik Developer Network

Using npm Modules in NativeScript Mobile Apps

Todor Todev demonstrates how you can easily integrate npm modules into a NativeScript mobile app using the Telerik Platform.

Telerik Developer Network

Lazy Loading Images on the Web

Brian Rinaldi discusses a number of methods to reduce the initial weight of a web page by delaying the loading of images that are outside of the viewport.

Telerik Developer Network

Around the Web

Telerik Kendo UI Outside the Box

A good introduction to the Kendo UI framework by Bilal Haidar.

Code Magazine

Control How Your Bower Packages are Installed with a Gulpfile in ASP.NET 5

The way ASP.NET 5 handles npm and bower components was changed in beta 8 to make it easier to understand but this tutorial shows how to put it back to the previous, more configurable setup.

Scott Hanselman

Using JavaScript frameworks from your C#/UWP application

A new project, ChakraBridge, lets you use JavaScript and JavaScript libraries within a Universal Windows Platform application.

David Catuhe

Misconceptions Regarding Pass By Value and Pass By Reference in C#

Ehsan Sajjad says a lot of developers get this wrong and attempts to clear it up with simple examples and diagrams.

CodeProject

Upgrading from ASP.NET 5 Beta 7 to Beta 8

The steps needed to upgrade your code to the new version.

Shawn Wildermuth