Readers suggest ways to build a powerful HtmlHelper that simplifies creating typical application Views. Along the way, Peter uses a workaround for extending an anonymous object with additional properties and shows how to extract values from a lambda expression in a View.
Preview version 0.8.0 adds TypeScript 1.6 support, improved debugging features, themes, and takes care of Windows setup bugaboos that have plagued some VSC users.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/18/2015
The game development platform has native integration with Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition, which allows option to install it as the default IDE.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/17/2015
Sometimes you need to make platform-specific calls. That's where DependencyService comes in handy.
- By Wallace McClure
- 09/16/2015
If you're not careful, you'll replace your huge, lumbering unmaintainable enterprise applications with a web of applications that can't be changed without blowing each other up. But if you apply the same tools you use inside your applications to your application architecture, you can avoid that.
Command pattern helps to encapsulate a request as an object and lets you parameterize clients with queues, all while supporting undoable operations. I'll explain how to use command pattern using an example in which we create a list in SharePoint with Visual Studio.
- By Malin De Silva
- 09/11/2015
Neural network models can be created, saved and reused. Here's how.
- By James McCaffrey
- 09/10/2015
Ease the pain of concurrent programming with the Actor Model and Akka.NET.
- By Jason Roberts
- 09/09/2015
Simplify development of your next project by taking advantage of these UI control collections.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 09/08/2015
Since March, Microsoft has had designs on taking the Microsoft Build Engine open source and cross-platform as it ports it to .NET Core in the coming months. Progress is in full swing now.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/07/2015
Rather than arbitrarily deciding what code goes into an application and what goes into your business objects, you can lean on the rules that experienced developers have learned to follow to make those crucial decisions.
Along with Sprint 87 release, a user name anomaly in Visual Studio Code that affects developers on Windows machine is also fixed.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/31/2015
Peter returns to his AJAX-enabled ASP.NET MVC application to show how Partial Views and TypeScript work together to simplify delivering a Single-page application.
If you've been creating Data Transfer Objects that integrate several objects into one, then you've created what domain-driven design (DDD) calls an aggregate. But there are some rules you need to follow if you want to reap the benefits that DDD promises toward performance, maintainability and scalability.
New 'Proxy By Name' feature allows Visual Studio developers to view metadata of the underlying binaries.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/25/2015
In this article Nick Randolph breaks down XAML for the Universal Windows Platform using the Live Visual Tree and Live Property Explorer tool windows in Visual Studio 2015.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/25/2015
The Open Data Protocol allows for creation and consumption of REST APIs. Sam Nasr demonstrates OData 4 in a sample app that demonstrates containment, a new feature for facilitating data access.
It's now easier than ever to create polished Android experiences. Greg Shackles shows how using Google's new Material Design style.
- By Greg Shackles
- 08/20/2015
Augment your testing framework with Shouldly for improved test code readability and better test failure messages.
- By Jason Roberts
- 08/19/2015
The differences between neural network binary classification and multinomial classification are surprisingly tricky. McCaffrey looks at two approaches to implement neural network binary classification.
- By James McCaffrey
- 08/18/2015