The last release for 2012 is here just in time for the holidays. It brings new features to our Customer Feedback Portal. Private Feedback With this release you can allow each user to submit feedback that is visible only to the author and your team. This feature is especially useful for cases where you work with several independent clients that are part of the same code base. You can choose between two options for capturing private feedback: Allow users to choose whether they want to submit an item as private or public Make all submitted items private by default...

Check out this list of active Windows 8 app challenges as well as a website with great resources and coaching/mentoring opportunities. One of them might turn out to be your golden ticket.

In a profiling session lasting only a few minutes, the profiled application may perform millions of operations. The following image shows that in less than two minutes, the program called three property assessors over 10 million times each.

GridView is one of the most powerful out-of-the-box controls in Windows 8, but fully understanding how to use it is not necessarily trivial. The complexity, I believe, comes because GridViews are often used to hold groups of collections, rather than simple collections. The GridView template assumes that it will be displaying groups of collections of items, and this can make working with the GridView, initially, more complex than it would otherwise be.