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.NET developers have long availed themselves of a wealth of functionality -- mostly free -- from the Visual Studio Marketplace, but only one major offering has earned a perfect 5.0 rating above a certain threshold of developer reviews.
10/26/2018
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You can mix script files from CDNs with your own local files, but it can be difficult to test the result to see if your code works. Here's how to both bundle JavaScript from a CDN and check to see if it's being done right.
10/25/2018
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Microsoft's shift from the traditional 16-year-old .NET Framework to modernized, open source and cross-platform "Core" implementations is picking up in pace.
10/24/2018
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You have at least two options for adding processing to multiple controllers without duplicating code in each of the Controllers.
10/23/2018
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The latest update to Xamarin.Forms -- Microsoft's C#-based, open source cross-platform mobile app dev solution -- addresses the "little things" such as buttons, images labels and more.
10/23/2018
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The Data Science Doctor explains how to use the reinforcement learning branch of machine learning with the Q-learning approach, providing code on how to solve a maze problem for an easy-to-understand example.
10/19/2018
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Microsoft announced the first preview of Visual Studio 2019 will be available before year's end, with general availability of the flagship IDE expected in the first half of 2019.
10/19/2018
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Progress announced a new release of Telerik UI components for Web, mobile and desktop development in the .NET ecosystem.
10/19/2018
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Eric Vogel shows how to create a new ASP.NET Core Web application using Visual Studio 2017.
10/18/2018
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Peter doesn’t see why the next UI you create (for the Web or for the desktop or for your mobile device) won’t be created in Xamarin.Forms. Or why that wouldn’t be your next career move.
10/17/2018
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GitHub released its huge yearly Octoverse report on activity in the open source community, revealing that Microsoft claimed two of the top five projects, ranked by the number of contributors.
10/17/2018
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If you’re going to write comments then you might as well avoid embarrassing yourself.
10/16/2018
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Persistent performance and reliability issues in the Visual Studio for Mac IDE will be addressed by replacing most of the editor internals with code from the Visual Studio IDE.
10/16/2018
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Internet of Things specialist Particle has come out with a new IoT development tool based on the Visual Studio Code editor, in a partnership with Microsoft.
10/16/2018
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Peter shares a great tool that not only makes your application run faster but gives you insight into other potential problems.
10/15/2018
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Laurent Bugnion, a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate for Microsoft who downloaded his first Web site on Mosaic in 1993, takes you on a trip through time to review software developments during the 25-year span of the Visual Studio Live! .NET training and networking conferences.
10/12/2018
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The Visual Studio Engineering Team is moving off the UserVoice site previously used to collect developer feedback about the IDE in favor of a new "Suggest a Feature" mechanism on the Developer Community site.
10/11/2018
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One of the latest Microsoft creations to be taken open source is a cutting-edge project in the booming artificial intelligence space.
10/11/2018
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In a Visual Studio Live! conference keynote Tuesday a couple of Microsoft program managers discussed .NET today and tomorrow, clearly signaling that .NET Core is the future of the ecosystem and that programmers should use it for all new development projects.
10/10/2018
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The Blazor documentation doesn't say you can't do this and it does actually work. But, still, you'd probably be foolish to take advantage of it.
10/10/2018
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If, in your "need for speed," you're looking to access and update your data as fast as possible, you can get to that goal by combining memory-optimized tables with compiled procs.
10/09/2018
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If screaming speed in data access is the most important thing in your life, SQL Server's durable in-memory, memory-optimized tables are your answer. They were good in SQL Server 2014 and they're even better in SQL Server 2016, 2017 and Azure.
10/09/2018
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You have a bunch of options for debugging Android applications built with Xamarin. Unfortunately, only one of them has worked well for Peter in all scenarios. Here are all your options with Peter's opinion on each and a recommendation on the best one.
10/08/2018
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Microsoft announced the third preview of Visual Studio 2017 v15.9, improving Xamarin and TypeScript functionality along with a bevy of other improvements.
10/08/2018
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You've got a class that accepts an object from a client (perhaps, that class is an ASP.NET MVC Controller). Here's the simplest way to update the related Entity Framework object with the client's data before saving it to your database.
10/04/2018
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Progress released an update of its Kendo UI JavaScript component toolset for building Web UI, adding new functionality while meeting the latest WCAG Web accessibility standard.
10/04/2018
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Peter thinks he's a bad person for even mentioning this tip. But, he claims, sometimes your best option in testing is to look at the internal state of the code under test. PrivateObject and PrivateType will let you do that.
10/03/2018