Microsoft has offered a few of the machine learning APIs to developers to incorporate into apps. Out in public beta now is LUIS, the Language Understanding Intelligent Service that now has Chinese language support and adds dozens of prebuilt models.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/28/2015
The TypeScript datatyping support not only applies to simple variables, it also supports you when doing clever things with functions. Specifically, TypeScript ensures you create reliable code when implementing callback functions.
The acquisition adds Java development capabilities to the company's cross-platform development arsenal.
Simplify conditional actor code and improve readability.
- By Jason Roberts
- 10/22/2015
An introduction to the Chakra JavaScript engine and how it can be used within a Windows 10 app to execute JavaScript.
- By Nick Randolph
- 10/21/2015
The trie data structure is one alternative method for searching text that can be more efficient than traditional search approaches. Here's a trie class you can create in C#.
- By Arnaldo Pérez Castaño
- 10/20/2015
Stop trying to make everything work all at once. Instead, use Domain Events to make applications simpler, more scalable and easier to maintain -- and to defer updates until you can't avoid making them.
Three months from their original releases, both tool suites have a handful of fit-and-finish improvements meant to smoothe over the development process.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/14/2015
Implementing Domain Events can dramatically simplify your application while also making it more scalable. Here are some of the implementation options available to you in the .NET environment.
Recurrent neural networks can solve some types of problems that regular feed-forward networks cannot handle.
- By James McCaffrey
- 10/12/2015
Along with a handful of features, including an ADAL plug-in, VS Tools for Cordova Update 3 aims for stability with a number of fixes that includes one for an error developers were getting after installing ASP.NET 5 Beta 7.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/12/2015
The open source library RestSharp is designed to make consuming APIs from .NET easy and work across platforms.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 10/08/2015
Peter addresses reader's concerns by showing how to implement a read-only/immutable value object.
What Martin wanted was to fulfill his internship requirement for his degree and possibly earn a little spending money for his efforts. He got both of these and the experience of meeting "The Monster."
Now that we've got the basics of microservices, what happens when we take into production? It's time to make sure your message reaches its intended targets.
A number of new tools whose capabilities will be deployable in Office client apps in the coming months include add-in command extensibility, and theming and Office.js APIs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/01/2015
What's all the hubbub with microservices? The benefits are in application management and delivery. Paul Mooney shows how in this sample C# app.
Microsoft's Brian Harry offers a look deep inside the evolution of the company's development operations as it transformed itself into a cloud-centric organization.
SharePoint is versatile, in that developers can interact with its data via other programming languages besides what's in Visual Studio. Here's how AngularJS fits into the development mix.
- By Malin De Silva
- 09/29/2015
Microsoft fills in the gaps on its Big Data offering with previews of its Azure Data Lake and Language Services, which includes the brand-new U-SQL language for crunching the incoming explosion of data.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/28/2015