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
Now that the JavaScript engine is open to the development community at large, it paves the way to making it available on Linux and other non-Windows platforms.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/19/2016
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
JetBrains announced that it's developing a C# integrated development environment that works independently of the Visual Studio environment.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/14/2016
Also noteworthy: weird keyboard layout problem encountered by developers on OSX -- fixed.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/12/2016
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
For this first in a series, Eric Vogel checks out the new IReadOnlyCollection<T> Stack<T> and Queue<T> implementations in .NET Framework 4.6.
It's a small step, but a duet of sender-side features are enabled in this preview that allow a more nuanced way of pushing out event-driven WebHooks to users.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/04/2016
Generic classes and functions are one way to create flexible, reusable classes and functions. But before you start creating your own generic functions, you should be clear on when they’re your best choice.
It's no small feat to be able to customize work items, right from the Web. The functionality is due to process inheritance, which is a function of Team Process Templates.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/22/2015
Learn to measure the performance of your apps and ensure a great UX.
- By Greg Shackles
- 12/18/2015
When you need to know when a file or folder appears, disappears or is renamed -- in fact, if almost anything at all happens in the file system -- you can have Windows notify your application so that you can take action.
C# developers who want to wring more meaningful info from large sets of data should get cozy with the statistical computing language known as R. Let's get familiar with R in this new series.
- By James McCaffrey
- 12/16/2015
New features in SDK allow more expanded health-tracking capabilities for Visual Studio developers who want to develop apps for second-generation Band.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/15/2015
It's been another great year for new development tools and technologies. Here are some that bring cross-platform development languages or capabilities into Visual Studio.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 12/15/2015
There are lots of benefits to gathering information by opening a dialog box instead of sending your user to another page. Fortunately, jQuery and ASP.NET MVC make it easy to do (and you don't have to worry about offending pop-up blockers).
.NET Framework 4.6.1 released. Meanwhile, variations of .NET Framework 4.x older than 4.5.2 are approaching end of support.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/11/2015
New version is a point release, with bug fixes and more polished performance, but it also incorporates a cleaner looking mode fo IntelliSense.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/09/2015
If you need to have objects look alike but don't have any code to share, you don't need inheritance -- you need an interface. Here's an example of how interfaces provide a more flexible way to deal with similar-but-different classes.