The retirement of the Insider Program means -- voila! -- the Insiders Build for Visual Studio Code developers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/23/2016
When classes are more structure than you need, tuples let you specify simple type-safe aggregates of other data types. They'll also let you create a dictionary collection…but it won't be type-safe.
There's an extra day this year. What you do as a .NET developer in just that one day can shape the future of your development for many years to come.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/22/2016
Pictures are worth a thousand words, and some can be storage-hungry, which can be bad for mobile apps and sites. Here's a trick for slimming them down.
- By Wallace McClure
- 02/18/2016
The basic functionality of the BlockingCollection makes creating asynchronous applications easy to do. But you need to use some of the BlockingCollection's other tools to create applications that handle typical real-world problems.
We looked at the basic features of functional programming with Visual F#. In this second part, we take it a bit farther and look at creating anonymous functions, pattern matching, and other features of F#.
- By Arnaldo Pérez Castaño
- 02/16/2016
ASP.NET Identity is a simple but robust framework allowing you to easily inject custom authentication logic into your applications.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 02/15/2016
These are the fixes you were looking for: more than 300 bugs squashed in C++, as well as a number of editing fixes for those working with C# and Visual Basic projects.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/11/2016
The functional programming paradigm, which has been around for decades, has never gone out of style. In this two-part series, we look at Microsoft's implementation, Visual F#.
- By Arnaldo Pérez Castaño
- 02/10/2016
ServiceStack moves to a complete Web application framework with support for Razor forms.
- By Patrick Steele
- 02/10/2016
The death of Windows Phone, well, it looks like no exaggeration for now. It doesn't mean you're dead as a Windows Phone developer.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/09/2016
Version 2.2 fixes a few integration issues that have been bewitching Unity game developers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/09/2016
Dividing your application up into simple processes will make it easier to maintain and extend. Using BlockingCollection to communicate between those processes will let you make those processes run asynchronously.
One of the hardest challenges of mobile development is how to minimize the cost of building the same application for multiple platforms. Nick shows how to use Xamarin.Forms to develop a cross-platform application that also targets the Universal Windows Platform.
- By Nick Randolph
- 02/03/2016
Linear regression was easy, right? Now, let's check out t-test analysis using R.
- By James McCaffrey
- 02/02/2016
With the right tools, creating an asynchronous application can give you not only a more responsive application that makes better use of your multi-core computer, it can also make your application simpler. Really, asynchronous applications should be your default choice.
Lots of user feedback-related improvements will make this incremental release easier for developers who want to make the cloud connection.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/28/2016
Now that the JavaScript engine is open to the development community at large, it paves the way to making it available on Linux and other non-Windows platforms.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/19/2016
Now that you've got a good sense of how to "speak" R, let's use it with linear regression to make distinctive predictions.
- By James McCaffrey
- 01/18/2016
Web pages aren't read-only anymore. These rich text editors let users post content of all kinds, edit content and even write collaboratively within the browser.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 01/15/2016