This sample pack includes all the app code examples developed for Windows 8. The sample pack provides a convenient way to download all the samples at once. The samples in this sample pack are available in C#, C++, VB.NET, and JavaScript.

These are the official samples for Visual Studio 2010 C# 4.0.

Learn how to use LINQ in your applications with these code samples, covering the entire range of LINQ functionality and demonstrating LINQ with SQL, DataSets, and XML.

A Visual Studio project which shows how to use the Entity Framework in an ASP.NET MVC web application project, using the Code First development approach.

What I build is just a simple calculator that will show beginners how much easy it is to develop applications using the .NET Framework. Through this sample, they will see some most useful algorithmic operations.

This sample shows how to imitate the splash screen that Windows displays for your app by positioning a similar image correctly when Windows dismisses the splash screen that it displays. This sample uses the SplashScreen class in the Windows.Applicati...

This sample shows you how to use LINQ to SQL to store relational data in a local database that resides in your app’s storage container.

This sample shows how to create, read, write, copy and delete a file, how to retrieve file properties, and how to track a file or folder so that your app can access it again. This sample uses Windows.Storage and Windows.Storage.AccessCache API.

Small sample using ASP.NET MVC 4 on Visual studio 2012 RC for implementing a Magazine website

The project illustrates how to design a simple AJAX web chat application.

This download has been created for the ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms Wingtip Toys tutorial series. This series of tutorials guides you through the steps required to create an ASP.NET Web Forms application using Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web and ASP.NET 4.5.

This sample demonstrates how to use the ApplicationSettings API and settings flyouts to integrate an app's settings UI with the Settings charm.

This sample uses ASP.NET Web API to build a simple contact manager application. The application consists of a contact manager web API that is used by an ASP.NET MVC application, a Windows Phone application, and a Windows 8 app to display and manage a list of contacts.

The Contoso University application created by the first of two Web Forms tutorial series at http://asp.net/entity-framework/tutorials/. Continues to be provided alongside version 2 so that it can be used as a starting point for working through the second tutorial series.

This project provides samples and extensions for the parallel programming support in the .NET Framework.

This project describes how to populate ASP.NET GridView control and how to implement Insert, Edit, Update, Delete, Paging and Sorting functions in ASP.NET GridView control

This sample provides an introduction to the development of a simple WPF application, and demonstrates controls, images, layout, and data binding.

This sample shows how you can call and process data from a web service in a Windows Phone app.

Each code sample is part of the SharePoint 2010 101 code samples project. These samples are provided so that you can incorporate them directly in your code. Each code sample consists of a standalone project created in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

This sample provides completed versions of the apps you create by following the Create your first Windows Store app using JavaScript tutorial series.

This sample shows how to use an app tile, which is the representation and launch point for your app in the Start screen, and a badge on that tile, which is a method for the app to relay status information to the user when the app is not running.

These samples demonstrate many of the new features available with Visual Basic 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 including hundreds Language Integrated Query (LINQ) samples.

This sample shows how to use the WebBrowser control in your Windows Phone app.

This sample creates a product listing application that allows users to enter items for sale.This sample demonstrates various data binding concepts.

The Geolocation sample demonstrates how to use the Geolocation API to get the geographic location of the user's PC.

This sample demonstrates how to activate the camera shutter and auto focus, configure picture resolution and flash settings, and use the hardware shutter button.

The sample demonstrates how to create a secondary tile in Windows Phone 7 and how to detect from which secondary tile the user is navigated to the application.

This sample shows how to access files and folders by letting the user choose them through the file pickers and how to save a file so that the user can specify the name, file type, and location of a file to save. This sample uses Windows.Storage.Picke...

This sample will teach you the basics of building an ASP.NET MVC Web application using Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express.
It is part of a tutorial series written by ScottGu, Scott Hanselman and Rick Anderson.

Usbview.exe is a Windows GUI application that allows you to browse all USB controllers and connected USB devices on your system. The left pane in the main application window displays a connection-oriented tree view, and the right pane displays the US...

The Windows Forms code sample demonstrates how to create a custom DataGridView column.

The drag and drop sample contains four code examples to show how the draggable attribute helps you create fully drag and drop enabled web applications.

This sample demonstrates a simple Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) app that uses XAML binding to connect the Views to the Model.

This sample demonstrates how to use a MessageDialog for displaying dialogs, setting commands and the actions they will perform, and changing the default button.

This sample demonstrates how to access contacts and appointments, and display the details by using data binding.

The ASP.NET code sample illustrates how to upload, read, display, update and delete images stored in a database.

The code sample demonstrates importing and exporting Excel worksheet in ASP.NET

This sample demonstrates how to build a complete Windows Store app using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

This sample demonstrates basic data binding techniques using the Binding class and Binding markup extension. Specifically, this sample covers: Controlling the direction of data flow and updates using the Binding.Mode property., Changing the format of...

The code sample demonstrates how to create a splash screen in Windows Forms applications

This sample demonstrates the use of the HttpClient class and the IXMLHTTPRequest2 interface to upload and download various types of content from an HTTP server using the networking features provided by the Windows Runtime. The sample shows the use of...

The sample code demonstrates how to create a MessageBox in ASP.NET

This ASP.NET code sample illustrates how to use the new Chart control to create a chart in the web page

A Visual Studio Project which demonstrates several ways to pass data from one ASP.NET Web Forms page to another one.

This sample shows a simple ADO.NET Data Service exposing data through the ADO.NET Entity Framework and a WPF application consuming the ADO.NET Data Service.

This sample demonstrates how to use the MediaCapture API to capture video, audio, and pictures from a capture device, such as a webcam.

This sample demonstrates how to create a WPF Forms solution that checks user input with validation code, demonstrates common controls such as DataGrid and ComboBox, and shows typical data manipulation including create, read, update, and delete.

This code sample demonstrates creating a basic Windows Service application in VC#

The Contoso University application created by the two Web Forms tutorial series at http://asp.net/entity-framework/tutorials/.

The sample demonstrates how to create a Windows Form with Aero glass style.