From Visual Studio Live! Austin: Microsoft's Tarek Madkour reveals the current state of the Visual Studio union, with a good view of the latest on .NET and .NET Core.
Creating a form with TypeScript, React and JSX lets you generate the HTML for your form dynamically, at runtime, and on the user's computer. Here's how to integrate a data- driven form into ASP.NET MVC.
Docker is open sourcing developer tools used to facilitate standing up containers targeted for Windows and Mac platforms.
As Microsoft Learning slates two exams for the MCSD: UWP for retirement next year, two more skills-focused exams will take their places.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/18/2016
Developers will always look to customize everything, and keyboards aren't out of bounds. Here's how to customize the iOS keyboard that pops up in your mobile apps to address any shortcomings.
- By Wallace McClure
- 05/18/2016
Data retrieval and updates are very different activities so the CQRS pattern says that the smart thing to do is treat them differently. Here's a variety of solutions for the retrieval side in an ASP.NET MVC application.
When working with TypeScript it's not unusual to need a class that matches an already existing server-side class written in C#. Here's one way to get from C# to TypeScript by doing what you normally do.
Now that you know how to communicate with the Band apps, here's another twist. Let's get interactive.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/12/2016
Another preview of the next VS IDE adds debug improvements, including Edit and Continue capability while building XAML apps, as well as latest TACO Update 9.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/12/2016
You can't make a complicated problem simple. But, by leveraging the right tools in your language (and the Visitor pattern) you can ensure that your code doesn't get as complicated as your problem.
Major update to cross-platform framework for building native apps includes support for Visual Studio Code and TypeScript, as wel as AngularJS, Maven, and CocoaPods.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/09/2016
Programmatic efficiency is a highlight of this release, with a command-line option for extensions and clearer information for starting new projects.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/04/2016
New to this type of analysis? It's a classic statistics technique that is still useful. Here's a technique for doing a one-way ANOVA using R.
- By James McCaffrey
- 05/04/2016
Leveraging the right combination of object-oriented tools can keep your code simple, even as the problems you solve get more complicated.
SharePoint 2016 and add-in development support are highlights of this release that allows Visual Studio developers to customize Microsoft Office.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/28/2016
Add pressure-based interactions in your apps in just a few minutes.
- By Greg Shackles
- 04/27/2016
Slew of announcements from the company at its Evolve 16 event in Florida include a bevy of solutions to help developers connect to Macs to create native iOS apps.
The JSX tool lets you describe your page as a set of custom elements that you define in TypeScript classes. Those elements then add to the page whatever text or code makes sense to you.
What you can do with most programming languages can be accomplished in F#'s functional programming paradigm. Here's how to handle some simple operations, which might look familiar to you already.
- By Arnaldo Pérez Castaño
- 04/20/2016
The ConcurrentDictionary provides the most efficient (and safest) way to shared named values between asynchronous processes with several powerful methods. But the best advice might be to avoid ever needing them.