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The Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 announcement didn't say much about .NET Core -- the open source, cross-platform replacement for the ageing, Windows-only .NET Framework -- but there is some new .NET Core functionality for developers in the IDE.
01/28/2019
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Microsoft announced HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code is now generally available, letting coders do Big Data analytics right from within the cross-platform, open source code editor.
01/25/2019
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Although Python is the widely recognized de facto, go-to programming language for machine learning and many other artificial intelligence projects, a new study shows C# is holding its own in the space.
01/25/2019
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Visual Studio 2019 is expected to ship in the first half of this year, and it just took another step on that journey with the release of its second preview that improves just about every area of the IDE experience.
01/24/2019
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An effort among users beseeching Microsoft to rethink the impending end of Windows 10 Mobile seems to be picking up steam after the platform's latest death knell.
01/24/2019
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From legacy xBase code to cutting-edge Quantum computing, these Visual Studio extensions will make you more productive.
01/23/2019
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The Microsoft Garage initiative for experimental hacking projects championed by interns and staffers has come out with new tools including XAML Studio, used to smooth iterative development by quickly prototyping Universal Windows Project apps.
01/23/2019
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In response to developer requests, .NET-centric tooling specialist Progress is supporting Microsoft's experimental Blazor project for C# Web development in a major new release of its UI-focused components.
01/23/2019
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Microsoft confirmed the official demise of its mobile initiative will be Dec. 10, 2019, when support ends for Windows 10 Mobile, the failed challenger to iOS and Android.
01/22/2019
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.NET development tools specialist Syncfusion is out with another update of its UI components suite, with new Xamarin controls of special interest to mobile developers.
01/22/2019
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The Cloud Explorer tool installed automatically with Azure Workloads in Visual Studio 2017 now sports additional functionality for interacting with the Azure IoT Hub.
01/18/2019
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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