MVVM:   Leveraging Windows 8 Features with MVVM
Brent Edwards explores how to let an application use cool Windows 8 features and still keep the presentation layer unit-test friendly.
Brent Edwards

Windows Phone:   Create a Windows Phone 8 Company Hub App
One of the new features of Windows Phone 8 is the ability to create company hub apps that are responsible for installing and updating your company’s apps on a device without having to go through the store or use a mobile device management solution. This article explores what it takes to create and deploy company hub apps to your user base.
Tony Champion

Windows 8:   Building Apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
There are times you can share code between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, and times you can’t. Joel Reyes tells you what you need to know to maximize code reuse when building applications that target both platforms.
Joel Reyes

LightSwitch:   Build Modern Business Productivity Apps with Visual Studio LightSwitch
The latest version of Visual Studio LightSwitch adds support for touch-based user interfaces and HTML5 and JavaScript, while hooking into SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 for better business integration.
Jan Van der Haegen
Beth Massi

Microsoft Office:   Exploring the JavaScript API for Office: A Sample Mail App
Here’s a step-by-step example of how to build a mail app with the JavaScript API for Office. This Web feature is a companion to the June issue print feature by Angela Chu-Hatoun.
Angela Chu-Hatoun

MVVM:   Maximizing the Visual Designer’s Usage with Design-Time Data
In his third MVVM article, Laurent Bugnion explains how you can simulate nonstatic data even at design time by tricking the visual designer into executing some design-time-only code.
Laurent Bugnion

SDL:   Using the SDL for LOB Windows 8 Apps
Part 1 of a two-part series, this article examines the planning phase of the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL). The article examines how to build security into a Windows Store project, describing how to compile a risk assessment and identify security and privacy requirements.
Tim Kulp

Patterns in Practice:   Adding Functionality to an Object: Loading the Right Classes
In this column, Peter Vogel continues his exploration of implementing the roles pattern in a typical business scenario by using Microsoft’s Managed Extensibility Framework to select and load the SalesOption objects that the design pattern requires.
Peter Vogel

Leading LightSwitch:   Hello, Mobile
Microsoft makes getting started with HTML5 even easier in the latest LightSwitch update.
Jan Van der Haegen

ALM Rangers:   Simplifying the Configuration of Lab Management 2012
Find out how to set up and configure Lab Management 2012 to maximize the benefits of each component and technology involved.
Micheal Learned