Harness the power of query expressions to develop powerful frameworks.
- By Chris Eargle
- 06/17/2013
James McCaffrey explains what neural network activation functions are and why they're necessary, and explores three common activation functions.
- By James McCaffrey
- 06/07/2013
One key change that will smooth your transition from ASP.NET to Windows 8 is to think like a designer from the outset.
- By Brandon Downing, Phillip Stewart
- 06/05/2013
The Prototype Pattern involves cloning objects. Learn how to create both deep and shallow clones for instances in your program where creating a new object won't work.
The decorator pattern is a good way to add extensibility to an application, as it follows SOLID design principles. Learn how to use it by adding validation logic to a form.
Use AJAX and some JavaScript libraries to decouple your data and presentation logic.
- By Patrick Steele
- 05/23/2013
Xoreax Software releases version 4.6 of its code-build-acceleration product.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 05/13/2013
Understanding the feed-forward mechanism is required in order to create a neural network that solves difficult practical problems such as predicting the result of a football game or the movement of a stock price.
- By James McCaffrey
- 05/10/2013
C#, Azure and JavaScript skills also make the Top-10 Most Wanted list.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/03/2013
A new feature of Windows Store apps, utilizing background tasks will not only help circumvent some challenges from the Windows Store app lifecycle, but they can keep your app responsive to what's going on with the user's device.
- By Tony Champion
- 05/02/2013
Even if you're not working in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, .NET provides you with a way to create a read-only collection or to convert an existing List into a read-only collection.
Eric Vogel covers how to capture video in a Windows Store app by using the MediaCapture API.
Learn how to create a perceptron that can categorize inputs consisting of two numeric values.
- By James McCaffrey
- 04/16/2013
Eric Vogel covers how to capture a photo in a Windows Store App by using the MediaCapture API.
Learn how to play multimedia files with the Windows Runtime media API.
Use the open source Nancy Web framework to expose a Web-based configuration UI for a Windows service.
- By Patrick Steele
- 03/20/2013
James McCaffrey presents one of the basic building blocks of a neural network.
- By James McCaffrey
- 03/15/2013
No database for your Windows Store app? No problem -- SQLite to the rescue!
A new IDE, Xamarin Studio, is also part of the release.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 02/20/2013
One of the most significant updates is the introduction of a convention-based extension model, in which you can configure a set of naming conventions to allow MEF parts to be easily picked up by your application.