You can write some complicated code to ensure that you don't create any object until you absolutely need it. Or you can use the Lazy object...at least some of the time.
If you're looking for an easy way to save the user's current state, the simplest solution is use the Serialize and Deserialize method.
JSX+React provides a flexible way for you to structure your client-side code to two things you want: dynamically transform your page in response to your user's input, and to integrate with ASP.NET MVC action methods.
Finalized versions of Microsoft's venerable software technologies are now generally available, and for Visual Studio 2015 U3, it includes the resolution of some high memory consumption issues that bedeviled some larger VS customers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/27/2016
SpecFlow offers a number of binding styles for bridging business-readable tests with test-automation code.
- By Jason Roberts
- 06/21/2016
Here's another way to make applications more scalable and more responsive to the user: store some application data on the user's computer.
A big user request, tab support, is developed enough that it's now available in preview form for those working with the VSC Insiders Release.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/16/2016
It's not quite like C# or Python, but the R language's object-oriented programming capabilities are getting better with each iteration. Let's take a look at what .NET developers are able do now with OOP in R6.
- By James McCaffrey
- 06/16/2016
Nothing and null are one and the same, except in the language of programming.
Natural User Interface expert Tim Huckaby gave a glimpse of some of the more interesting challenges developer face with computing becoming more "natural," including how to control computers beyond the devices themselves. That was the message at his keynote talk at Visual Studio Live! in Boston.
That "other" cloud company is a popular option due to the breadth of tools and capabilities. So, it only makes sense that there are a number of Windows developer tools available for those who want to hop on the AWS cloud.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 06/14/2016
The cross-platform solutions provider that was acquired by Microsoft earlier this year released updates to its tools at the dotNetConf last week.
In any real-world business, updating data isn't simple and changing the rows in the table is just the start of a complex set of processes. Fortunately, you can break those updates down into a bunch of simple processes that can be easily extended.
You couldn't do it in earlier versions of Entity Framework but, in more recent versions, you can use lambda expressions to save yourself from some runtime errors.
Updates to TACO, AppInsight and HockeyApp are features of this release along with stability, performance, and bug fixes.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/09/2016
The MSDN blogs can't contain all the information that's being produced on the various Microsoft developer tools and technologies.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/08/2016
New version allows for visual design and code generation of apps using Microsoft's newest Entity Framework Core 1.0, as well as popular data access framework from Telerik.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/02/2016
If you ever need to work with all of the properties in some object, you can use GetType and GetProperties to retrieve the object's PropertyInfo objects. After that you can do what you want. Here's an extension method that sets all those properties to their defaults, for example.
From Visual Studio Live! Austin: Innovations like Microsoft's HoloLens will require adapting procedural, linear programming and thinking in terms of compositional programming, observes UX expert Billy Hollis.
A belated 25th birthday to Visual Basic. Yes, 25 years ago, this language transformed the Windows app market in ways even Microsoft could not have imagined.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/24/2016