Like clockwork, the Visual Studio team has Visual Studio Team Services rolling out with Sprint 115, with improvements in pull requests and the package management UI, and lots of progress in automation via DevOps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/31/2017
The Microsoft development teams responsible for Visual F# and TypeScript recently provided their respective communities with some insight into their development efforts moving forward, now that the Visual Studio 2017 release hubbub has cleared. The goal with the insights via two recent blog posts, it seems, is toward more transparency.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/30/2017
While Visual Basic is a bit more forgiving with data conversions, you'll need to jump through some hoops to do similar conversions in C#.
When your objects get sufficiently complicated to create, it's time to simplify your life by moving to the Builder pattern. The Builder pattern is not only a great pattern for creating complicated objects, it supports your application's further evolution.
Azure Service Fabric team hopes to spur improvements to Service Fabric .NET SDK through the open source community. ASF and the SDK have also recently been updated.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/27/2017
It's at 1.0, with a version supporting Visual Studio 2017 to follow some time in May.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/24/2017
Mobilize.net now has support for Visual Studio 2017 for users of its VB-to-.NET code migration tool.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/24/2017
If you don't use a section in a View, then you'll get an error. But you may not find out until it's too late.
Visual Studio Code's February Build is now available, and it sports quite a few updates having to do with the workbench and debugging features, and includes a preview of a new code view.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/23/2017
Similar to the UITableView in iOS and ListView in Android, the XF version can be used to cache images for use in other locations of an application.
- By Wallace McClure
- 03/22/2017
A stepped approach using traditional tools in Visual Studio and third-party solutions to troubleshoot and debug Web application issues.
- By Kamran Bilgrami
- 03/21/2017
Team Foundation Server 2017 is out, but that doesn't mean there isn't important work to be done with TFS 2015. The VS team has released a preview of a TFS 2015 update that rolls up about 25 fixes for mostly customer-reported issues.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/21/2017
The Entity Framework DbEntityEntry object lets you do all sorts of things you probably didn't think were possible, including getting the latest data from the database (without losing your current data) and invoking the .NET Framework validation subsystem.
If you're passing an anonymous object to an HtmlHelper method (to ActionLink, for example), you might want to consider using that anonymous object to eliminate one of the other parameters.
No longer a pipe dream, cross-platform coding has been made fairly straightforward and nearly ordinary with tools from Xamarin and others. At VSLive!, Microsoft's James Montemagno demonstrated the ease with which cross-platform apps can be delivered without venturing too far from the C# space.
Let's use this classical statistics technique -- and some R, of course -- to get to some of the latent variables hiding in your data.
- By James McCaffrey
- 03/16/2017
Microsoft knows that, out there in the real world, developers come at DevOps using a wide range of languages and platforms, some of which are not of the developer's choosing. That was the core message of Microsoft DevOps expert Donovan Brown's demo at VSLive! in Las Vegas this week.
Nifty, printable info graphic shows everything new and updated in the latest developer suite.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/15/2017
.NET developers now have another option for the streamlined creation of cloud apps, now that Google App Engine has announced support for the Microsoft developer stack.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/14/2017
If you're not using the Entity Framework DbCollectionEntry object when working with an entity class's related objects, then your application is running too slow. Using DbCollectionEntry lets you asynchronously retrieve related objects and get only the objects you want.