A cornucopia of code editing and collaboration software that lets you use the same familiar tools no matter what computer you're working on.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 05/21/2014
One Microsoft employee calls it a "business decision" -- and a bad one at that.
Take control of your application's behavior and move toward dependency injection by refactoring your existing code.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 05/20/2014
Visual Studio 2013 came with a new version of Web API. The Web API 2.1 update includes a host of new features, including support for Binary JSON. Learn how to leverage BSON by building a Web API 2.1 service.
Backbone is a popular library for creating MVC/MVVM-like applications in your client. Here's an introduction to Backbone and some best practices for creating a Single-Page Application with TypeScript.
Many developers are unhappy that future releases won't be supported on Visual Studio 2012 and earlier.
Dropout training is a relatively new algorithm which appears to be highly effective for improving the quality of neural network predictions. It's not yet widely implemented in neural network API libraries. Learn how to use dropout training if it's available in an existing system, or add dropout training to systems where it's not yet available.
- By James McCaffrey
- 05/13/2014
The API integrates many third-party tools and cloud-based services using standard Web technologies.
Data from TFS versions as far back as 2010 can be transferred.
ASP.NET vNEXT, Apache Cordova tooling also announced.
Giving a keynote presentation at the VSLive! conference this week, noted speaker Billy Hollis decried the "fixation" on unit testing, among other topics.
Microsoft's Craig Kitterman demonstrated cloud-based load testing and monitoring for applications.
Better debugging, support for Async are among the highlights.
Peter Vogel moves a Windows Form to a modern design pattern, which forces him to think about how his code should be divided up among his classes. In the end, he comes up with some rules for making those decisions.
It may look like a simple point upgrade, but it isn't. Examine more closely, and you'll see why the latest iteration of Windows Phone is a big deal.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/02/2014
The problem appears to be related to the location of the setup executable.
Soon, devs will even be able to build a Windows Phone app on OS X.
Knockout custom binding handlers can help simplify integration with third-party JavaScript libraries. Here's how.
- By Patrick Steele
- 04/30/2014
Even in a Code First environment, you can call a stored procedure from a DbContext object. But it's a lot easier if you use the visual designer.
Previous versions only covered up to .NET Framework 3.5.