The UI tool builder is contributing a couple dozen tools in its UI for UWP suite to the open source community.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/09/2017
Your Xamarin Forms App needs one more little tweak, and that's to make it device-specific, so users don't freak out. Unlike the Apple tweak, the Android tweak takes a bit of work.
- By Wallace McClure
- 02/08/2017
Find out more about this new feature of ASP.NET Core 1.0 and how it might help you.
If you decide on using an Enum with enumerated values in your Entity Framework class, here are the tools you'll need to make it work. But an enumerated value shouldn't be your first choice.
Here are two ways to save some typing when defining anonymous objects. One only works in Visual Basic, though.
Tizen is an open source app platform targeting mainly Samsung devices, from televisions, to phones, to wearables. Yep, there's a Visual Studio Tool for that, and it's on its second preview.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/03/2017
Developers who use Visual Studio Team Services will start seeing some new Agile-focused features rolling out this week, with Mobile Work Item Forms and Delivery Plans among the highlights.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/02/2017
Even though this new data sciences exam is aimed at MCSEs, Microsoft Learning is seeking out developers and data scientists to beta test it.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/01/2017
Microsoft's security bulletin describes a security vulnerability that exposes apps targeting ASP.NET Core MVC 1.1.0 to possible denial of service attacks, and issues mitigation guidance.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/31/2017
A roundup of a few more features: deprecated any type, literal datatypes, read-only properties, more!
The third release candidate of the venerable, all-encompassing and integrated Microsoft developer platform has been re-released after being pulled for a short time due to reports of developer machines crashing due to an odd installation issue.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/27/2017
You want to keep an object around only as long as you have memory available, do ya? Then you need the WeakReference class.
Whether you're building a Web or desktop application, here's a round-up of tools for building the interface with plain old HTML.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 01/25/2017
Marten is PostgreSQL-based, so take advantage of relational features where it makes sense. Here's an example.
- By Jason Roberts
- 01/24/2017
Peter starts off with a perfectly good solution to a problem but then complicates the problem . . . and ends up moving to a different design pattern. While on that journey he has some best practices around designing Data Transfer Objects.
Portions of the unit test execution infrastructure that's used in Visual Studio is now an open source project.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/19/2017
String functions, integer functions ... booorrring! Tuples in C# 7.0 -- let's explore what makes them infinitely more exciting.
Developers can get notified of events happening with SharePoint Lists, such as when items get added, updated, deleted or moved, now that the capability is now enabled in SharePoint Online.
Chatbots are the new mobile application. In this article, Nick demonstrates how you can integrate a bot right into your Universal Windows Platform app via the Microsoft Bot Framework Direct Line API.
- By Nick Randolph
- 01/17/2017
As a company's problems continue to become more complicated, your code will become more complicated. Peter shows how refactoring code can lead you to better designs.