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Developer Rick Strahl, tired of the cumbersome process of converting his many Visual Studio IDE code snippets into formats that can be used in the Visual Studio Code editor and the JetBrains Rider IDE, has created a tool to automate the process.
01/16/2019
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses a full project code sample and screenshots to detail how to use Python to work with self-organizing maps (SOM), which let you investigate the structure of a set of data.
01/15/2019
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GitHub highlighted improvements to its Visual Studio Code extension that lets developers manage pull requests from the open source code repository with a few clicks from within the code editor.
01/15/2019
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Amazingly, at least one thing is easier in ASP.NET Core than it is in ASP.NET: Adding your own functionality to the ASP.NET Core processing pipeline.
01/11/2019
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You can still bundle scripts to save download time but, in ASP.NET MVC Core, it's more about configuration than code.
01/10/2019
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Microsoft today released an update to its ML.NET framework that includes new Visual Studio templates to help developers code their machine learning projects.
01/10/2019
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It's not always obvious, but sometimes the Watch window isn't always showing you the latest data. Here's how to tell and what you can do about it (sort of).
01/09/2019
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Good news for .NET Core developers: There's a package that gives Entity Framework Core the lazy loading capabilities that your existing applications may be using. Or may not be using -- you might not know, which is the real problem.
01/08/2019
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An open source GitHub project championed by a handful of developers seeks to add Google's new Flutter mobile UI framework as an option for creating native mobile apps in the Xamarin framework.
01/08/2019
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The success of VS Code -- along with the evolution of the open source, cross-platform .NET Core -- provides the signature theme of 2018 in the Microsoft developer ecosystem.
12/19/2018
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Here's a tool to help you integrate Blazor and JavaScript by passing HTML elements defined in Blazor to JavaScript functions.
12/06/2018
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If you want to know what your next call to SaveChanges is going to do to your database then you want to use Entity Framework's ChangeTracker.
11/27/2018
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If you're testing for exceptions using ExpectedException, you have a better alternative.
11/16/2018
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Odds are that, when you stop on some breakpoint, you want to check the value in some variables. Here's how to get Visual Studio to display those values for you.
11/13/2018
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Despite a lot of support, many developers immediately took issue with the icon change, with comments such as: "I hate to say it but this is ridiculous. This smells of tinkering with the UI just for the sake of it."
11/13/2018
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Promising that developers can "save weeks of development effort," Microsoft today answered their request for database project support in Visual Studio to target Azure SQL Data Warehouse projects.
11/07/2018
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Here's how to add headers or modify the content of requests and responses in the ASP.NET pipeline's modules and handlers.
11/05/2018
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Microsoft just announced .NET Standard 2.1, its first update in more than a year as it plays catch-up with the .NET Core implementation, which is about to hit v2.2.
11/05/2018
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Not only can you integrate JavaScript with Blazor, that integration provides a strategy for moving your existing pages to Blazor without having to rewrite your existing JavaScript code.
11/02/2018
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If someone tells you that LINQ doesn't support subqueries ... well, they're not wrong. But they're also not entirely correct, either. With LINQ you can meet many of the goals of SQL subqueries including the ability to build complex queries out of simpler ones.
11/01/2018
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Blazor expert Chris Sainty provides hands-on code samples to explain how to handle DOM and user-defined events in Microsoft's experimental project for writing browser-based apps with C# instead of JavaScript.
10/31/2018
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Microsoft has provided a peek at upcoming features for Azure DevOps, the evolution of Visual Studio Team Services, which is being brought to the cloud in the wake of the company's acquisition of GitHub.
10/31/2018
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ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET MVC have similar (but not identical) mechanisms that allow you to customize how your requests and responses are processed. Not surprisingly, ASP.NET Web API's implementation is both easier and more flexible than ASP.NET MVC.
10/30/2018
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Microsoft said that going forward, ASP.NET Core will only run on the NET Core 3.0 platform, not the traditional 16-year-old .NET Framework.
10/30/2018
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Sure, F12 will take you to the definition of whatever your cursor is sitting on. But that's just the start.
10/29/2018
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The October release of Azure Data Studio includes preview support for SQL Server 2019 and more.
10/29/2018
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It's a lot easier in ASP.NET Core to let the client know that everything went right (or wrong).
10/26/2018