Many of the changes to TFS affect agile planning features, for the better. Here's a look at five areas.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 05/18/2015
Next generation of the Microsoft Build automation system is now in public preview as part of Visual Studio Online Sprint 82.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/15/2015
A peek at a diagnostics tool that gives developers some insight into networking issues that might be mucking up how apps interact among the Windows device spectrum.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/14/2015
In this second part on TDD for ASP.NET MVC, Eric Vogel covers how to implement unit tests for the remaining CRUD controller actions.
The train-validate-test process is hard to sum up in a few words, but trust me that you'll want to know how it's done to avoid the issue of model overfitting when making predictions on new data.
- By James McCaffrey
- 05/13/2015
Protect your ASP.NET applications from Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks by leveraging ARMOR, a C# implementation of the Encrypted Token Pattern. Here's how.
TypeScript 1.5, which has been in the hands of beta testers since the end of April, packs bug fixes and a few more features to get it ready to align with the upcoming ECMAScript 6.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/07/2015
Staying up-to-date with technology is easier when you have the right resources. Here are 18 books that will level up your skills.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 05/06/2015
The extension simplifies the back-and-forth connections from Visual Studio 2015 RC to GitHub. But there's an interesting aside to how the extension was developed that reveals something about "the New Microsoft."
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/05/2015
Code audits seemed unnecessary to everyone except the auditor. Good thing the auditor finally had one sympathetic ear -- "Andrew" -- to hear him out.
Just in time for Build, the Visual Studio Team has delivered the first set of release candidates for a number of tools in the Visual Studio 2015 family, and these ones come with a bounty of new features.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/30/2015
Microsoft aims to give developers the means to code one app that's capable of running on Windows, Windows Phone, Microsoft Azure and the new Windows Holographic Platform.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/29/2015
Promises not only provides a simple, flexible interface for assembling chains of asynchronous operations in client-side code, it also makes it easier for you to manage parallel processing.
Building line-of-business mobile apps for Windows Phone that connect to Microsoft Azure for authentication, data storage and notifications isn't much different from on-premises apps. Here's what it takes.
- By Nick Randolph
- 04/28/2015
In all likelihood, Microsoft will highlight Universal App building. Here's what we know now. Specifics, of course, will be well known by the end of the week.
- By Visual Studio Magazine Editors
- 04/27/2015
It's what unit testing should be. Here's how to use it to test your apps.
- By Jason Roberts
- 04/22/2015
Display data to a user with Xamarin.iOS and this nifty class.
- By Wallace McClure
- 04/20/2015
As the group gets absorbed back into Microsoft, the company will start up a new open source advocacy group, Microsoft Open Technology Programs Office.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/20/2015
Writing software is a complicated process. These new Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 extensions help your projects stay on schedule.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 04/15/2015
Back-Propagation is the most common algorithm for training neural networks. Here's how to implement it in C#.
- By James McCaffrey
- 04/14/2015