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- By Michael Domingo
- 03/17/2016
Microsoft calls the recent release of this VS Code debugging capability an "experimental preview," which means it's truly a work in progress.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/17/2016
Microsoft and DevExpress have released a new version that delivers some improvements as well as a few user-requested updates to a number of the controls in the suite.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/17/2016
SONiC is the company's open source framework that will allow application developers to extend network switches to work across disparate hardware platforms.
Here's a nifty tool that can help you get to the heart of issues in your mobile apps that aren't easy to track down.
- By Wallace McClure
- 03/16/2016
A few new features -- error reporting, new project default, and a number of ionic project starter templates, to name a few -- as well as bug fixes, round out this update.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/15/2016
When it's important to know what path your application took when processing data, a log of that path can be helpful. And, when you need to make a decision in your code based on an earlier decision, that internal path can make your code both simpler and easier to understand.
Microsoft R and R Server features are accessible almost directly through the Visual Studio IDE, with the new R Tools for Visual Studio plugin.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/10/2016
Microsoft Build doesn't have the build up of, say, a major release of Visual Studio, to attract attendees, so why does it sell out? It's all about networking.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/09/2016
The latest Web preview of the VSTS rounds up a number of new features -- Agile planning, testing, Git, release management, Office 365 integration, more -- that the Visual Studio Team will be refining over the next few months.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/09/2016
If you're creating an asynchronous application (and you should be) you'll be glad to know that .NET offers ways to share data that don't require you to lock up your application.
Reliability and performance improvements rule on this release candidate, and there are a bevy of new features being tested out with Team Foundation Server 2015 U2 RC as well.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/04/2016
It's iOS and Android, then all others, along with Windows Phone. But some reports believe Windows Phone is the real growth market, and developers should take heed since there's money to be made there.
Just in time for Build in San Francisco, Microsoft will make available a kit for developing for yet another extension of the Windows platform that will have you going all Johnny Mnemonic on your Visual Studio apps. You'll need to be a Windows Insider, though, before you can get your hand -- and face -- on one.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/03/2016
R is the perfect language for creating a variety of chi-square tests, which are used to perform statistical analyses of counts of data. Here's how, with some sample code.
- By James McCaffrey
- 03/02/2016
Xamarin this, Xamarin that. But not all cross-platform is Xamarin. Have you heard of one other option, like React Native?
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/01/2016
The Microsoft Band is one of the most sophisticated fitness and health trackers available today. In this article, Nick walks through building a Windows Phone app that can communicate with it.
- By Nick Randolph
- 03/01/2016
Jason Roberts' e-book on C# 6 gets to a rolling start. And it's free, so you can't argue about the price at all.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/25/2016
Web and application accessibility isn't just a nice thing to do. It makes your work available to a bigger world of customers ... and may be a legal requirement for some projects.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 02/25/2016
Pending regulatory approval, Redmond announced its plans to acquire the mobile cross-platform tools developer. Terms were undisclosed.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/24/2016