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.
Let's break away from C# somewhat and learn how F# is a great fit for crafting mobile applications.
- By Greg Shackles
- 01/12/2017
Both are .NET Framework-based, but they don't seem to be speaking the same language.
Last VS Code update of 2016 has hot exit and a number of other code-focused enhancements and improvements.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/10/2017
Sometimes life is like playing Whack-a-Mole: You write some code that solves a problem, and then someone comes along and makes the problem harder. Here's how to continuously integrate new solutions without having to rewrite your old solutions (much).
Peter didn't bother doing any performance testing but he believes that this change has just got to speed up your ASP.NET MVC application.
The latest version of TypeScript provides developers with tools to create base classes and class hierarchies just like the other object-oriented languages.
Whether you're building an application database or generating data access code, we've got a round-up of tools to make the job easier.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 01/04/2017
The Visual Studio Team announces the end of the Team Room feature in upcoming sprints, as the feature is deprecated.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/04/2017
You can turn on logging for your Entity Framework code with a single line. Configuring it to write to a file takes only a little bit more effort.
I don't believe in coding design tools. I've been programming for more than 30 years now (40 years if you go back to my first class in programming). I think in code. Code is my design language and procrastination is my friend.
When you hit a breakpoint in Visual Studio, everything stops. If you'd rather other processes keep running, you can enable that.
There's more (and some less) in Entity Framework Core compared to Entity Framework 6, at least in version 1.0. While you can move to Entity Framework Core now, it might be too early for you.
Saving and retrieving data is a fundamental part of all but the simplest of applications. In this article, Nick walks through getting started using Entity Framework with SQLite to persist application data.
- By Nick Randolph
- 12/15/2016
From Visual Studio Live! in Orlando, Microsoft's Tim Sneath offered an extensive look inside the next-generation development platform.
Hashwords can use a pinch of salt for added security. There's a .NET class for that.
It's relatively simple to make use of the multi-window mode now that Xamarin supports it. Here's how.
- By Wallace McClure
- 12/14/2016
If you run an automated test and your test fails then you want to know that it's your fault -- not a problem in someone else's code or the result of a change in your test data. Moq lets you do that in two lines of code, even if your code uses the ASP.NET Session object.
Document databases are a form of NoSQL database that may store all of the information for a given object in a single instance in the database.
- By Jason Roberts
- 12/12/2016
The Azure developer exam discounts are part of a broader initiative by the Microsoft Partner Network to narrow the Azure deployment and development skills gap.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/09/2016