Microsoft's Jay Schmelzer kicks off Visual Studio Live! in Austin, Texas highlighting the company's latest open source efforts within Visual Studio 2015 and the .NET Framework.
Xamarin Inc. is teaming up to integrate its cross-platform mobile development tools with IBM MobileFirst Protect security software.
Learn how to get started writing apps for your wrist!
- By Greg Shackles
- 06/02/2015
Project System Extensibility SDK improves upon Visual Studio Managed Package Framework for Projects' process for project system plug-in development.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/02/2015
Now that Google is adopting TypeScript as the development tool for Angular 2, TypeScript 1.5 is going to gain some functionality driven by features in Google AtScript. But there's more in the next version of TypeScript than just AtScript features.
The newest work-in-progress WCF that's targeting .NET Core is now being open sourced on GitHub.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/28/2015
Microsoft finally unveiled the Windows Universal Application Platform at Build in San Francisco. Nick Randolph takes the new controls -- and other changes that assist developers building adaptive layout applications -- out for a spin.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/27/2015
In the real world, you'll often need to display constant and repeating data, a.k.a. Master/Detail pages. Custom templates are the cleanest, simplest way for you to manage them.
Buried in Microsoft's May bulletins are two .NET Framework fixes that are rated critical and important.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/26/2015
SharePoint Application Pages provide truly flexible functionality across all the sites within a SharePoint front end. You can use Visual Studio to create those pages, with the added bonus of securing the content during development.
- By Malin De Silva
- 05/22/2015
New features in this version include the automation of screen caps of Web pages being tested and customizable test result reports.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/21/2015
In this final part on test-driven app development with ASP.NET MVC, Eric covers how to unit test the services layer.
The Visual Studio Code Team improves a few features of the portable code editor -- in particular, public issue tracking and centralized feedback channnel -- while still in preview.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/19/2015
You don't always want to display the same data the same way. Here are your options for leveraging custom templates in Views to meet all of your needs -- and the code you need when a template won't do the job.
Many of the changes to TFS affect agile planning features, for the better. Here's a look at five areas.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 05/18/2015
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.