I've collected 46 of the newest Visual Studio 2017 extensions for customizing your code editor, organizing files and projects and managing your source control.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 11/30/2017
You can speed up how fast your "less frequently used" sites load by sharing assembles among your sites. You'll also reduce memory consumption on your server.
OOP is a special kind of animal, says Tim Patrick, who shows how to put one of its core principles, encapsulation, to work while coding constructors for base and derived classes.
Today, application settings are more likely to appear in local XML files, but the Windows Registry and its hives of key/value pairs can also be used. The good news is that interacting with the Registry is straightforward, as Tim shows you here.
With SQL Server 2016, you can store JSON objects in your rows. Here’s how to work with JSON objects, including how to update them once you’ve found them.
When it comes to inheritance, relational database theory and object-oriented programming have more in common than you might think. Understanding that overlap is critical in designing the object model that will generate the database design your application needs.
It’s easy to integrate your own attribute directives into Angular 2 templates to pass data from your component to your directive, have it respond to events on your page or even have your directive fire events to be processed by the component using it.
Our resident data scientist explains how to train neural networks with two popular variations of the back-propagation technique: batch and online.
- By James McCaffrey
- 10/31/2017
Premature optimization may be the root of all evil, but these tools will make sure your code is clear, clean and secure.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 10/26/2017
Learn how to leverage the open source MVVM ReactiveUI framework, the Observer Design Pattern, ReactiveX and more to make your Xamarin apps more responsive.
- By Daniel Krzyczkowski
- 10/24/2017
With SQL Server 2016, it now makes sense to store JSON objects in your database (even though there’s no JSON datatype). Here’s how to query JSON properties to find the rows you want.
With new APIs for augmented reality and machine learning -- along with many new and updated features -- the latest iteration of iOS is sure to make Apple mobile developers happy, our resident expert concludes in this hands-on review, complete with code samples.
- By Wallace McClure
- 10/17/2017
See how the latest version of Visual Studio 2017 can be used to create Azure Functions using familiar development tools and techniques.
- By Jason Roberts
- 10/12/2017
Here’s a look -- with code samples -- at two series of updates that will improve the feature set and, most important, performance of Microsoft’s cross-platform UI solution.
- By Wallace McClure
- 10/10/2017
Learn how to keep new code-style warnings from filling up your formerly pristine Visual Studio Error List panel.
Here’s how, in Angular, you can use directives to dynamically modify HTML in Views without polluting your business logic.
Our data science expert continues his exploration of neural network programming, explaining how regularization addresses the problem of model overfitting, caused by network overtraining.
- By James McCaffrey
- 10/05/2017
If you want to encrypt integer values, then you're going to need to store the result as a string. If you're also going to roundtrip those values from the server to the browser, you'll need this code.
There’s a potential security exploit that ASP.NET MVC leaves you open to. However, in Peter’s opinion, all the proposed solutions miss the point.
There's more to RESTful services than just using the HTTP verbs. You should also be leveraging the Location header and status code, for example.