You couldn't do it in earlier versions of Entity Framework but, in more recent versions, you can use lambda expressions to save yourself from some runtime errors.
Updates to TACO, AppInsight and HockeyApp are features of this release along with stability, performance, and bug fixes.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/09/2016
As developers churn through coding the next versions of .NET Core and other key Microsoft technologies, the company offers new bounties on bugs. Program runs to September.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/09/2016
Null pointer exceptions can get downright annoying, so who needs that?
- By Kate Gregory
- 06/08/2016
The MSDN blogs can't contain all the information that's being produced on the various Microsoft developer tools and technologies.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/08/2016
Last week, Microsoft's Visual Studio team released the 100th sprint for VSTS. It includes Docker release management and a Dashboard SDK for VSTS dashboard customization.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/07/2016
The CQRS pattern separates updates from queries, allowing you to create the best process for each of those activities. Effectively, CQRS codifies the standard practice for ASP.NET MVC developers: Here are some strategies for implementing that pattern and improving your application's performance.
WinDocks is now available for .NET developers looking for a smoother solution for spinning up Windows Server 2012-based Docker containers in the AWS cloud.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/03/2016
New version allows for visual design and code generation of apps using Microsoft's newest Entity Framework Core 1.0, as well as popular data access framework from Telerik.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/02/2016
Azure Test Drives gives developers the ability to test out apps in the cloud without any commitment whatsoever.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/01/2016
Case matters when moving from one language to another and, often, variable naming conflicts can be as simple as that.
Developer targeting cloud deployments can now use Azure DevTest Labs for development and testing and control costs at the same time.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/31/2016
To smoothen the testing process for .NET Core 1.0 and ASP.NET Core 1.0 deployments, the Visual Studio team has released a preview of its MSTest Framework that supports the RC versions.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/31/2016
If you ever need to work with all of the properties in some object, you can use GetType and GetProperties to retrieve the object's PropertyInfo objects. After that you can do what you want. Here's an extension method that sets all those properties to their defaults, for example.
Online book from C++ expert Andrey Karpov aims to explain away the myths of C++ programming by way of example.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/26/2016
From Visual Studio Live! Austin: Innovations like Microsoft's HoloLens will require adapting procedural, linear programming and thinking in terms of compositional programming, observes UX expert Billy Hollis.
A belated 25th birthday to Visual Basic. Yes, 25 years ago, this language transformed the Windows app market in ways even Microsoft could not have imagined.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/24/2016
From Visual Studio Live! Austin: Microsoft's Tarek Madkour reveals the current state of the Visual Studio union, with a good view of the latest on .NET and .NET Core.
Creating a form with TypeScript, React and JSX lets you generate the HTML for your form dynamically, at runtime, and on the user's computer. Here's how to integrate a data- driven form into ASP.NET MVC.
Docker is open sourcing developer tools used to facilitate standing up containers targeted for Windows and Mac platforms.