That understanding should drive how you deal with testing, including how to turn it into a value-added task.
Downloading compiled C# code to the browser using Blazor is all very good -- but it would be so much better if you can integrate your Blazor code with JavaScript. Here’s how to do that.
If you want to impress your boss (or client) with your diligence in generating documentation for your Web Service, then you need Swagger. That it will also make it easier for you to run tests on your service and check for typical errors is just icing on the cake.
Testing is a necessary but not a value-added task. To put it another way, while testing is something we have to do, our users would be just as happy if we could produce quality software without it. Understanding that leads to a realistic approach to testing.
Blazor is the Microsoft toolset that exploits the WebAssembly standard to let you write C# code that will run in your browser. Here's how to set up Visual Studio 2017 and create your first app.
Data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey provides code, screenshots and step-by-step instructions on how to perform regression using a deep neural network with the Keras code library.
- By James McCaffrey
- 07/23/2018
An economic model design to explain profit margins may seem like an odd place to look for career advice, but here are five forces that you can harness to increase how much you get paid.
We've got a new round-up of tools covering security code analysis, code generators, console apps and command-line arguments.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 06/28/2018
The Data Science Doctor provides a hands-on tutorial, complete with code samples, to explain one of the most common methods for image classification, deep neural network, used, for example, to identify a photograph of an animal as a "dog" or "cat" or "monkey."
- By James McCaffrey
- 06/25/2018
While the most popular extensions in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace are naturally dominated by Microsoft and some other big corporate names like Red Hat, many individual contributors are also making waves with useful tools.
Here's a step-by-step guide to creating a Xamarin project in Visual Studio 2017.
Here's what you need to know before you create your first Xamarin application to run on a smartphone or a tablet.
Your DELETE request to the service just timed out. Surely, it's safe to send it again. Actually, it may not be.
TypeScript applies type safety to JavaScript but, with conditional types, adds some flexibility in how consistent your types are.
New support for styling Xamarin.Forms apps with CSS may be controversial, but Greg Shackles thinks CSS is a powerful (and frequently maligned) solution to the problem of styling native mobile applications. See what he means in this hands-on tutorial.
- By Greg Shackles
- 05/29/2018
Your update request to the service just timed out. Is it safe to send it again? Maybe. Here's how to ensure that all your update, delete and add requests are safe plus some advice on what you should really be calling them and handling concurrency.
If you want to implement a fully "REST-compliant" application you should address a critical question: How do consumers know what URLs to use? What if all the consumer needed to know was how to use the HTTP protocol and a little common sense?
Back in the day, we'd write some code, compile, execute, see what happened and repeat. That was testing. (Sometimes that's still what testing looks like, for better or worse.) Today, we can do a lot better.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 05/17/2018
Building cross-platforms applications has never been easier using Microsoft's Xamarin.Forms. In this article Nick introduces v6 of MvvmCross and shows how it can be leveraged to accelerate development and improve the architecture of a Xamarin.Forms application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/16/2018
Our data science doctor provides a hands-on neural networking tutorial to explain how to get started with the popular Keras library, a high-level wrapper over TensorFlow.
- By James McCaffrey
- 05/15/2018