Next generation of the Microsoft Build automation system is now in public preview as part of Visual Studio Online Sprint 82.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/15/2015
A peek at a diagnostics tool that gives developers some insight into networking issues that might be mucking up how apps interact among the Windows device spectrum.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/14/2015
In this second part on TDD for ASP.NET MVC, Eric Vogel covers how to implement unit tests for the remaining CRUD controller actions.
The train-validate-test process is hard to sum up in a few words, but trust me that you'll want to know how it's done to avoid the issue of model overfitting when making predictions on new data.
- By James McCaffrey
- 05/13/2015
Protect your ASP.NET applications from Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks by leveraging ARMOR, a C# implementation of the Encrypted Token Pattern. Here's how.
The JavaScript-based cross-platform development platform sees light of day, as well as a number of new and upgraded tools, including some aimed at .NET developers.
You can easily slide middleware and other custom code into the ASP.NET pipeline by taking advantage of the Microsoft implementation of the OWIN specification in the coming Visual Studio 2015.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 05/11/2015
Peter reviews some of the more spectacularly incorrect things he's told other people and then draws some conclusions.
TypeScript 1.5, which has been in the hands of beta testers since the end of April, packs bug fixes and a few more features to get it ready to align with the upcoming ECMAScript 6.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/07/2015
Staying up-to-date with technology is easier when you have the right resources. Here are 18 books that will level up your skills.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 05/06/2015
The extension simplifies the back-and-forth connections from Visual Studio 2015 RC to GitHub. But there's an interesting aside to how the extension was developed that reveals something about "the New Microsoft."
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/05/2015
Code audits seemed unnecessary to everyone except the auditor. Good thing the auditor finally had one sympathetic ear -- "Andrew" -- to hear him out.
Microsoft believes Windows 10 will be big for consumers, and an even bigger opportunity for developers. The company trotted out nine more solutions that should keep developers busy.
- By Tony Champion
- 05/01/2015
Microsoft's four-fold path leading to a singular coding platform is becoming a real possibility.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/01/2015
Just in time for Build, the Visual Studio Team has delivered the first set of release candidates for a number of tools in the Visual Studio 2015 family, and these ones come with a bounty of new features.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/30/2015
The hooks in SharePoint Apps allow developers to streamline the process of creating them without SharePoint getting in the way.
- By Malin De Silva
- 04/30/2015
Microsoft aims to give developers the means to code one app that's capable of running on Windows, Windows Phone, Microsoft Azure and the new Windows Holographic Platform.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/29/2015
The company packed quite a bit into a three-hour keynote that spanned the spectrum of Microsoft technologies and hardware. For developers, the emphasis was on cross-platform app building, with new tools built right into the next Visual Studio 2015.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/29/2015
Promises not only provides a simple, flexible interface for assembling chains of asynchronous operations in client-side code, it also makes it easier for you to manage parallel processing.
Project renaming, a top user feature, now available, as is account restoration and several incremental configuration updates to Kanban boards and Taskboards.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/28/2015