Alachisoft frees up its in-memory distributed cache solution through the Apache 2.0 open source license.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/28/2015
Peter finishes off his series on creating single-page applications by showing how jQuery integrates with Backbone to support updates and deletes (also: how to convert a string to a number in TypeScript).
Developers looking to check out the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio 2015 can do so without using up precious resources, now that a preview is available via an Azure VM. Also released: Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 1.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/27/2015
If you really want to take full control of the exceptions you pass to your clients, you can write your own Exception class. Here's how to do that, complete with support for additional properties.
Microsoft today said it will bolster its extensive Big Data portfolio with the acquisition of Revolution Analytics, a company that specializes in products and services based on the R programming language.
Nick Randolph dissects a Windows Phone 8.1 application package in order to inject analytics tracking code into a pre-build application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 01/22/2015
.NET developers can now use MuleSoft's Anypoint data connetivity middleware solutions to extend its services out to enterprise mobile apps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/21/2015
Microsoft made .NET Core and other .NET Foundation projects open to community collaboration. Want to make a contribution? Read these tips first.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 01/21/2015
The company touts this release as the biggest yet for mobile developers, but those using it with ASP.NET will find lots to love in the number of new controls that span several tools across the Microsoft suite.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/20/2015
Multi-swarm optimization (MSO) is a powerful variation of particle swarm optimization. Understanding how MSO works and how to implement it can be a valuable addition to your developer toolkit.
- By James McCaffrey
- 01/20/2015
A complex ASP.NET MVC form can drive you to a big, ugly action method that handles all the functionality the page offers. The ActionMethodSelector provides a clean way to separate that logic over multiple methods, provided you understand a key distinction of which many ASP.NET MVC developers aren't aware.
ReSharper is a Visual Studio plug-in from JetBrains that brings an incredible amount of features designed to increase developer productivity.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 01/15/2015
More quick-start templates, enhanced push notifications, and new Telerik Device Cloud service, currently in beta, will allow testing on hundreds of physical devices.
Not just once, but repeated in various lucrative apps -- a humongous chunk of code that should've been reduced to a mere line.
Make Visual Studio do the hard work to simplify the creation of external lists that can be used to connect outside data to your SharePoint projects.
- By Malin De Silva
- 01/12/2015
The .NET Framework update will include debugging and tracing capabilities in this round and will be automatically delivered to those using Windows Server Update Services.
JetBrains's .NET plug-in will make quick work of code inspections and refactoring. Here are a few tips to work with it that will have you wondering what to do with all your newfound free time.
If you're creating an XML document and want to write code that you'll actually be able to maintain … well, it may be time to learn a little Visual Basic, just so you can use XML Literals. It's a good solution even for C# shops.
A December report on Windows Phone Store app downloads also offers some tips for developers looking to make it big with their mobile apps.
Microsoft's new build/test pricing and licensing reductions that were proposed last month are now in effect.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/06/2015