Former head of the .NET platform is promoted in the wake of Satya Nadella's ascension to CEO.
Microsoft announced updates to several Big Data-related services on its Azure cloud platform with preview of Azure HDInsight, Storm on HDInsight, Azure Machine Learning.
The update, available through NuGet, supports older versions of the .NET Framework.
There are numerous ways to implement a fluent API, depending on the degree of control you want to maintain over the API, how many classes you want to be able to use it with, and how you want to extend your API. Here are your options.
That dinosaur of an office appliance -- the fax machine -- plays an unexpected role in Jason's Web site registration puzzle.
Version 5.0 of the app certification requirements is also out.
Wally walks you through the two controls you can use to easily navigate your iOS apps.
- By Wallace McClure
- 01/24/2014
The Visual Studio Online site is also experiencing growing pains.
Update 2 is not far behind, either.
Peter walks through a simple Web page that retrieves and updates data on the server to summarize his best practices for creating the client-side portion of an ASP.NET application.
The introduction of Visual Studio Online doesn't mean the end of Team Foundation Server, but it does change the way Microsoft does application lifecycle management.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 01/17/2014
"Windows 9" preview is expected to be the highlight of the show.
Bryan Freeman's book on creating asynchronous applications does a great job of explaining the technology the .NET Framework provides for creating asynchronous applications.
Understanding data encoding and normalization is an absolutely essential skill when working with neural networks. James McCaffrey walks you through what you need to know to get started.
- By James McCaffrey
- 01/15/2014
The free extension currently works only with Visual Studio 2013.
It started with user group pizza. It still hasn't ended. How Rocky Lhotka's life changed -- forever -- in an instant.
Information expected on the next version of Windows, rumored to be called "Windows 9".
Just because your language can do it, it doesn't mean that you should.
Nick Randolph walks through adding analytics to your Windows Phone application using Application Insights for Visual Studio Online.
- By Nick Randolph
- 01/13/2014
Toolbox is a collection of handy tools, libraries, frameworks and information that helps you code. In this installment I've collected some new and popular JavaScript frameworks and testing tools.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 01/10/2014