Extension methods provide a great way for extending a class functionality -- but it's interfaces that let you use those methods anywhere you want.
We often take syntax highlighting for granted -- it just makes code so much more readable that it's become hard to live without. I'll take a look at a little history behind it and some new developments that might make code coloring even more useful.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 08/07/2014
"Summer update" comes with improved URL support, message logging, and authentication.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/07/2014
In related news, also released is another CTP for an extension for developing apps with the Apache Cordova platform.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/06/2014
How to define common XAML resources to improve the consistency of your applications.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/06/2014
Also released today: Azure SDK 2.4 for .NET.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/05/2014
Version 4 of the XML Schema-to-C++ compiler now supports Visual Studio versions 2012 and 2013.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/04/2014
New version of middleware integration platform integrates directly with .NET-written or -supported applications.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/01/2014
Peter creates an AJAX-enabled application using TypeScript with Backbone that talks to a Web API service. He also upgrades to the latest version of Backbone TypeScript support, causing several things to break -- but it does result in better, simpler code.
Now that Kinect for Windows 2.0 devices have shipped, a preview of the software development kit is available for more than game developers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/31/2014
Microsoft Azure has caught up with AWS in many areas. In a couple of others, it's actually pulled ahead.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 07/31/2014
An explanation of the Visual Studio Online outage that occurred July 18 was simply Azure SQL Database slowness, but it was a bit more than that.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/31/2014
A mere month later, Microsoft's point release of the Unity gaming platform add-on comes mainly with debugging improvements.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/30/2014
How to use Xamarin.Auth, Xamarin.Social, and the Facebook SDK for Android to interact with Facebook within a Xamarin.Android application.
- By Wallace McClure
- 07/29/2014
Support for cross-origin resource sharing now built in via the ASP.NET Web API.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/29/2014
Weight decay and weight restriction are two closely related, optional techniques that can be used when training a neural network. This article explains exactly what weight decay and weight restriction are, and how to use them with an existing neural network application or implement them in a custom application.
- By James McCaffrey
- 07/28/2014
An interaction script bridges the gap between designing concepts and actually adding controls to forms. The interaction script will tell you what your application needs to do, leading you (finally) to what controls you need on which forms.
Version 2.0.0, released earlier this month, contains a bevy usability, functionality, and configurability improvements, as well as rounds up a number of bug fixes.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/24/2014
After Wayne's employer decided to bring some outsourced code back in house, he discovered that developers in Kerbleckistan were doing some serious innovating in the science of passing parameters.
New security-minded Worker Account capability can be written into iOS, Android and OS X apps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/23/2014