The functional programming paradigm, which has been around for decades, has never gone out of style. In this two-part series, we look at Microsoft's implementation, Visual F#.
- By Arnaldo Pérez Castaño
- 02/10/2016
ServiceStack moves to a complete Web application framework with support for Razor forms.
- By Patrick Steele
- 02/10/2016
The death of Windows Phone, well, it looks like no exaggeration for now. It doesn't mean you're dead as a Windows Phone developer.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/09/2016
Version 2.2 fixes a few integration issues that have been bewitching Unity game developers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/09/2016
When your goal is 99.999-percent uptime, there's a small crack in the window for downtime. That happened with Visual Studio Team Services last week. And it happened within a span of two days.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/09/2016
Dividing your application up into simple processes will make it easier to maintain and extend. Using BlockingCollection to communicate between those processes will let you make those processes run asynchronously.
Visual Studio developers who are part of the Essentials Program now have access to more than $300-worth of Azure credits over a year, as well as the addition of mobile development courses from Xamarin University.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/04/2016
One of the hardest challenges of mobile development is how to minimize the cost of building the same application for multiple platforms. Nick shows how to use Xamarin.Forms to develop a cross-platform application that also targets the Universal Windows Platform.
- By Nick Randolph
- 02/03/2016
The Windows-based Big Data tools and frameworks suite adds support for Apache Spark, Apache HBase and Scientific Python.
Linear regression was easy, right? Now, let's check out t-test analysis using R.
- By James McCaffrey
- 02/02/2016
With the right tools, creating an asynchronous application can give you not only a more responsive application that makes better use of your multi-core computer, it can also make your application simpler. Really, asynchronous applications should be your default choice.
TypeScript 1.7 has been out a month, but there's already a TypeScript 1.8 in beta and it features compilation improvements, expanded JSX support, plus ChakraCore support.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/29/2016
Some incremental changes, such as environment switching and improved iOS support, come to TACO, and the group adds a TACO blog for regular tips and tricks. Update now allows for using TACO with Visual Studio Code.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/28/2016
Lots of user feedback-related improvements will make this incremental release easier for developers who want to make the cloud connection.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/28/2016
TypeScript doesn't have the rich set of native collection classes that you're used to in the .NET Framework -- instead, it has just arrays and tuples. Fortunately, you can do quite a lot with them.
The goal is to eventually get developers to start working more diligently on apps aimed at the Windows 10 IoT Core platform by way of Node.js. That's where Node.js Tools for Windows IoT 1.5 comes in.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/26/2016
Use Node.js or .NET to write data-accessible apps that target Azure Mobile App on the back end with this new plugin.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/25/2016
You want to give the user the ability to select one (or more) items from a table. It's not as easy in ASP.NET MVC as you might like... but it's not awful, either.
If you have software development skills then there are actually a wide range of positions you can reasonably expect to migrate to (assuming you want one of those jobs). Here are some useful numbers on average salaries and job openings on which to base your decision.
ASP.NET 5.0 is no more, at least by name -- it's now ASP.NET Core 1.0. Newer versions of .NET Core 5 and Entity Framework 7 will also follow suit.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/20/2016