Microsoft's Jay Schmelzer described the current state of the developer group's open source efforts in Redmond at a Live! 360 Conference keynote.
You want to use a DLL in multiple projects (it's even possible that other developers at your company might find your DLL helpful). The easiest way to distribute and deploy that DLL, or any other combination of files, is with NuGet. Really.
A high-level look at some of the more interesting features of the newest Apple mobile OS that can trip up C# developers making apps for it.
- By Wallace McClure
- 11/19/2015
Microsoft packages a handful of developer-related services into an Essentials-style pack, and submits Visual Studio Code to beta testing. Oh yeah, and it's also being open sourced.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/18/2015
Preview of new plugin from the developers of the Sencha Web Application Lifecyle Management Platform allows .NET developers to write JavaScript code as if it were native to Visual Studio.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/17/2015
Let these tools generate your data access layer, saving you time and headaches. There's something here for the simplest or most complex projects.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 11/16/2015
Project Oxford team releases public beta of emotion tool that recognizes a core set of emotional states, which developers can embed into .NET apps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/16/2015
You can dramatically simplify your code by using classes to define read-only/immutable objects … but to create classes that behave correctly requires a little bit of redirection.
The short definition of a parameter sweep is that it's the process of trying different training parameter values in order to find a good set of neural network weight values.
- By James McCaffrey
- 11/10/2015
Pivotal's Cloud Foundry 1.6 platform allows .NET apps to run on Pivotal's cloud, as well as on a number of ALM toolchain products.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/06/2015
You can dramatically simplify your code by using value objects, but to create a value object that makes sense to the developer who uses it, you need to redefine what the equals sign means. Along the way, Peter points out some problems when you don't use classes to define your data.
Many stories aim to share a saga of how code builds are successfully integrated with each other. This is not one of those stories.
Vast list of improvements and changes across the board for the Microsoft developer tools platforms as the products get closer to final Web release: support for iOS 9 and Android Marshmallow in Tools for Apache Cordova, and a number of improvements specific to Visual C#, Visual C++and Node.js Tools for VS.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/05/2015
Latest sprint comes with new dashboard capabilities that are meant to replace the Team Overview page, as well as improved pull request and testing features.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/03/2015
The Visual Studio coding extension suite from JetBrains has a whole host of improvements, and includes a new build tool.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/02/2015
True artificial intelligence is years away. But we can demonstrate the challenges of AI decisionmaking using C# to derive solutions for the classic sliding tiles puzzle.
- By Arnaldo Pérez Castaño
- 10/30/2015
Now that you know how to create tag helpers, let's create a custom one that loads a bootstrap-select dropdown via a remote URI.
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.