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A new Visual Studio Code extension from the Amazon Alexa dev team targets the development and deployment of skills, or capabilities the voice-activated virtual assistant can perform in response to verbal commands.
08/08/2018
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Visual Studio is perfectly willing to work with any file that you want to add to your solution -- you just have to tell it what editor to use.
08/07/2018
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Microsoft issued fixes to address problems with .NET Framework applications that were caused by July Windows patches.
08/07/2018
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If you're building a Xamarin solution you should be using a .NET Standard Class library to hold your common code. Here's how to convert an existing Xamarin Solution using a Shared or PCL project to the new standard.
08/06/2018
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Microsoft's Xamarin team announced the availability of Xamarin.Android 9.0 (P) Preview, letting Visual Studio developers target the next big update to Google's Android mobile OS.
08/03/2018
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Testing is a necessary but not a value-added task. To put it another way, while testing is something we have to do, our users would be just as happy if we could produce quality software without it. Understanding that leads to a realistic approach to testing.
08/02/2018
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This week Microsoft released updates to .NET Framework versions to fix problems caused by its botched July 10 patches, but some key Windows systems remain unpatched.
08/02/2018
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Blazor is the Microsoft toolset that exploits the WebAssembly standard to let you write C# code that will run in your browser. Here's how to set up Visual Studio 2017 and create your first app.
08/01/2018
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As the number of your automated tests starts to pile up, using "Run All" to make sure that you haven't introduced any new bugs starts to look less attractive. Fortunately, Visual Studio makes it easy to organize your tests into groups.
08/01/2018
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Perhaps nothing better exemplifies the "new" Microsoft than the process of developing the F# functional programming language it created 13 years ago, a process heavily dependent upon the open source community.
08/01/2018
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If you're not using Fody then you're probably writing too much code.
07/23/2018
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Just load something into the Task object's Result property.
07/23/2018
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Script references aren't just for TypeScript developers.
07/23/2018
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One of the nice things about many of the ASP.NET MVC action filters is that you don't have to apply them to every Action method -- you can bang one onto a Controller to cover all the methods in the controller. But what if you have one method that doesn't fit the mold?
07/18/2018
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An economic model design to explain profit margins may seem like an odd place to look for career advice, but here are five forces that you can harness to increase how much you get paid.
07/09/2018
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Microsoft announced the end-of-life of last year's .NET Core 2.0 offering has been extended to Oct. 1 because of a flaw that prevents some updates to .NET Core 2.1.
06/29/2018
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We've got a new round-up of tools covering security code analysis, code generators, console apps and command-line arguments.
06/28/2018
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The cloud-based solution for bringing local intelligence to distributed Internet of Things devices is ready for production and open source.
06/28/2018
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Microsoft has changed strategies for supporting cross-platform development: They've moved from Portable Class Libraries to Standard Libraries. Here's why, what it means and why it matters right now.
06/26/2018
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Visual Studio-backed programming languages fared well in the latest TIOBE Index popularity report, with Visual Basic and R jumping up in the rankings and TypeScript cracking the top 100 for the first time.
06/26/2018
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Microsoft updated its bleeding-edge Quantum Development Kit with several enhancements, including an improved debugging experience.
06/26/2018
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Microsoft shipped the latest preview for Visual Studio 15.8 with the usual bevy of enhancements for productivity and performance, tooling and improvements to cloud and mobile functionality, and more.
06/26/2018
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The Data Science Doctor provides a hands-on tutorial, complete with code samples, to explain one of the most common methods for image classification, deep neural network, used, for example, to identify a photograph of an animal as a "dog" or "cat" or "monkey."
06/25/2018
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While the most popular extensions in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace are naturally dominated by Microsoft and some other big corporate names like Red Hat, many individual contributors are also making waves with useful tools.
06/22/2018
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The big news around collaborative coding in the Microsoft ecosystem has lately focused on the impending GitHub acquisition, but work is continuing on improving the existing VSTS platform.
06/22/2018
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Here's a step-by-step guide to creating a Xamarin project in Visual Studio 2017.
06/20/2018
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Here's how to avoid the frustration of discovering that you've made changes to a file you can't change in Visual Studio.
06/20/2018