It's been made a project on Github.
Are you tired of manually configuring IIS sites (adding Web sites, application pools, virtual directories and so on)? Use C# and the Microsoft.Web.Administration Namespace to simplify your life (or at least IIS configuration).
- By Patrick Steele
- 06/24/2014
An old Silverlight feature is the top vote-getter so far on UserVoice.
Backbone provides an elegant way to encapsulate the code necessary to get your data and HTML onto the page. Peter shows how to make it work in TypeScript.
Ondrej Balas continues his discussion on refactoring your code for dependency injection, this time focusing on the composition root pattern.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 06/18/2014
Deep Neural Networks are the more computationally powerful cousins to regular neural networks. Learn exactly what DNNs are and why they are the hottest topic in machine learning research.
- By James McCaffrey
- 06/13/2014
The feature, which is for code stored in Git, will eventually be added to local copies of Visual Studio.
Thinking in terms of layers or tiers really isn't much help to you. Stop doing it: The single responsibility principle and design patterns are all you really need.
The open source application packaging platform gets 1.0 support on Microsoft's cloud.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/12/2014
The upgrade is made possible by using SQLitePCL.
While this one isn't for use on production servers, the next one likely will be.
Prune your Entity Framework with the help of asynchronous methods.
Remote Desktop App for Windows Phone 8.1 has limitations that rankle some, though.
Go deeper into the Oculus Rift SDK.
MSDN subscribers can try it for free with their Microsoft-supplied credits.
Microsoft's newest CEO seems to understand the challenges Microsoft faces, and is positioning the company to re-assert its preeminent place in the industry.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 06/04/2014
It's a preview of the next version of the IDE, expected to hit in 2015.
Gartner also says Azure is still "Microsoft-centric," appealing primarily to .NET developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/03/2014
Entity Framework 6 gives you a variety of ways to call stored procedures that return data and capture the results those procedures return. Here's a look at all of them.
The tool was entirely rebuilt for better monitoring of applications.