.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.
If, after pressing F5, you've ever found yourself adjusting the size of your browser window, then this tip is for you. But you shouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work.
Version 2.0 of the business process development tool comes in builds for .NET Core and Java, and sports streamlined UI improvements and a number of new methods.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/10/2017
Visual Studio Team Services team are in the midst of rolling out yet another sprint, this one with additional Delivery plans features, a more optimized mobile work item experience, and some other Team features.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/09/2017
No secrets here, as features and updates of the suite have been portioned out in public testing in the months and weeks leading up to the launch. So much of what's new in this morning's announcements has to do with the current state of several VS iterations, including the Mac and Mobile Center previews, as well as some new benefits.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/07/2017
We just covered background information on our last file processing foray. Now, what's faster: CRT, Windows API, or something else?
- By Bartlomiej Filipek
- 03/06/2017
Developers develop and sometimes that becomes the basis of a startup's IP. So, who owns it now? Here's how to sort it all out.
- By Wallace McClure
- 03/06/2017
Now that Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 is out, Visual Studio developers building apps in the Azure cloud platform can take it for a spin.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/03/2017
With Visual Studio 2017 making its debut next week, a number of software and services that comprise its tooling ecosystem have already embedded support for the development platform.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/02/2017
Entity Framework Core doesn't have lazy loading (at least, not yet). But you can fake it by using explicit loading, though it doesn't work quite the way you might want. In fact, it's probably a good idea to use this in Entity Framework 6.
If you want to ensure that the right code is loaded at the right time (and only loaded when you need it), you can use TypeScript code to organize your code into modules. As a side benefit, managing your script tags will get considerably easier.
Imagine platform-neutral, language-agnostic tools for writing code. Awesome, yes, but using tools like Visual Studio Code to compose your programmatic masterpiece will require a bit of rethinking.
Writing Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that rely on inter-process communication is actually easy. Debugging and making them fault-tolerant is the tricky part, but it can be done with the AppServiceConnection for UWP and IoT Apps.
- By Lee Richardson
- 02/27/2017
Some questions can only be answered by organizing your data into groups and then finding groups that contain particular members or have particular properties.
A release candidate that allows developers to use Visual Studio to develop R apps is the last step prior to its general availability. Plus: An update on Python Tools for VS.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/23/2017
New release fixes a number of issues, including more polished tooling fixes while working in the editor, and the addition of a new object type introduced in the second iteration of the ECMAscript offshoot.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/22/2017
Another month, another VSTS sprint. This one features a number of team-related pull request improvements and a more efficient package management UI.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/22/2017
Good documentation is important for any application, and it starts with documenting your code. It helps you and it helps your users.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 02/21/2017
Complex queries can be solved with a combination of simpler LINQ queries, anonymous objects and the Group/By/Into clauses. Using Group/By/Into will also give you the best possible performance for those complex queries.