When classes are more structure than you need, tuples let you specify simple type-safe aggregates of other data types. They'll also let you create a dictionary collection…but it won't be type-safe.
There's an extra day this year. What you do as a .NET developer in just that one day can shape the future of your development for many years to come.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/22/2016
Developers working toward SharePoint 2013 and Windows Store-related exams and certifications might need to step up exam-taking efforts, as exams are set to retire in September.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/18/2016
Pictures are worth a thousand words, and some can be storage-hungry, which can be bad for mobile apps and sites. Here's a trick for slimming them down.
- By Wallace McClure
- 02/18/2016
The basic functionality of the BlockingCollection makes creating asynchronous applications easy to do. But you need to use some of the BlockingCollection's other tools to create applications that handle typical real-world problems.
ASP.NET Identity is a simple but robust framework allowing you to easily inject custom authentication logic into your applications.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 02/15/2016
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
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.
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
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 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.
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.
Now that you've got a good sense of how to "speak" R, let's use it with linear regression to make distinctive predictions.
- By James McCaffrey
- 01/18/2016
Web pages aren't read-only anymore. These rich text editors let users post content of all kinds, edit content and even write collaboratively within the browser.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 01/15/2016
Developers (including you) benefit when you provide a string representation of your class. By implementing IFormattable, you can take control of this representation and provide some flexibility. Besides, if you don't provide one, the Microsoft .NET Framework will provide a useless one for you.
Like a mobile force, Xamarin 4 awakens. So upgrade now, especially if you're a Visual Studio developer and building apps for iOS.
- By Wallace McClure
- 01/11/2016
With the Universal Windows Platform, developers can target a wide variety of devices with a single application, but it comes with performance ramifications. We look at ways to make those apps more efficient and highly performant.
- By Nick Randolph
- 01/08/2016