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Pictures are worth a thousand words, and some can be storage-hungry, which can be bad for mobile apps and sites. Here's a trick for slimming them down.
- By Wallace McClure
- 02/18/2016
We looked at the basic features of functional programming with Visual F#. In this second part, we take it a bit farther and look at creating anonymous functions, pattern matching, and other features of F#.
- By Arnaldo Pérez Castaño
- 02/16/2016
The functional programming paradigm, which has been around for decades, has never gone out of style. In this two-part series, we look at Microsoft's implementation, Visual F#.
- By Arnaldo Pérez Castaño
- 02/10/2016
ServiceStack moves to a complete Web application framework with support for Razor forms.
- By Patrick Steele
- 02/10/2016
Like a mobile force, Xamarin 4 awakens. So upgrade now, especially if you're a Visual Studio developer and building apps for iOS.
- By Wallace McClure
- 01/11/2016
With the Universal Windows Platform, developers can target a wide variety of devices with a single application, but it comes with performance ramifications. We look at ways to make those apps more efficient and highly performant.
- By Nick Randolph
- 01/08/2016
For this first in a series, Eric Vogel checks out the new IReadOnlyCollection<T> Stack<T> and Queue<T> implementations in .NET Framework 4.6.
C# developers who want to wring more meaningful info from large sets of data should get cozy with the statistical computing language known as R. Let's get familiar with R in this new series.
- By James McCaffrey
- 12/16/2015
Application code needs to raise events and respond to them. The MessagingCenter makes this whole process much simpler than standard .NET events.
- By Wallace McClure
- 12/10/2015
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
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
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.
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