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Model binding works great ... but it sometimes lets me down. In those cases you need to tell model binding to do the right thing. Here's an attribute that will let you know when you're missing non-nullable data and do it without interfering with your data design.
09/17/2018
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Microsoft has gone from its CEO calling open source a "cancer" in 2001 to buying the pre-eminent open source development platform GitHub in 2018.
09/17/2018
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The three-year-old startup being bought out by Microsoft provides a drag-and-drop approach for creating AI projects.
09/14/2018
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Microsoft is highlighting its new Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) for Windows as it runs through the top networking features of Windows Server 2019 in a blog series.
09/14/2018
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Chris Sainty provides hands-on code samples on how to use Web APIs to interact with Blazor, an experimental framework from the ASP.NET team that allows developers to write C# and Razor code and have it run in the browser via WebAssembly.
09/13/2018
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The latest preview release of Visual Studio 2017 v15.9 targets Universal Windows Platform (UWP) development, C++ debugging and more.
09/12/2018
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VSTS, the familiar DevOps offering that has been incorporated into the Visual Studio IDE for years, has evolved into the new cloud-hosted Azure DevOps, Microsoft announced.
09/10/2018
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Microsoft announced a new extension for Visual Studio Code that simplifies the process of working with GitHub pull requests, which can now be done completely within the editor.
09/10/2018
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The latest monthly update of the lightweight, cross-platform and open source Visual Studio Code editor features a number of UI, navigation and other improvements.
09/07/2018
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If you want to speed up your SQL Server queries you need to know how your application and your users actually use your database.
09/06/2018
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For the first time, Python has cracked the top three in the TIOBE index of programming language popularity, helping to demonstrate why Microsoft has fully embraced the language in its Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code editor.
09/05/2018
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The popular open source Babel compiler that makes modern JavaScript compatible with older environments has shipped in version 7 and, with help from Microsoft, now supports TypeScript.
09/04/2018
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There are five design patterns you'll use every time you create a smartphone application. One is imposed by the environment and one is a pattern that you've probably been avoiding when creating other kinds of applications.
08/31/2018
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Our resident data scientist provides a hands-on example on how to make a prediction that can be one of just two possible values, which requires a different set of techniques than classification problems where the value to predict can be one of three or more possible values.
08/30/2018
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That understanding should drive how you deal with testing, including how to turn it into a value-added task.
08/29/2018
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Coinciding with the start of the GopherCon show for developers using the Go programming language created by Google, Microsoft today published an extensive series of videos to help Azure cloud developers use Go.
08/28/2018
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Microsoft today published the results of hybrid cloud survey, with one of the findings indicating that controlling important data storage is the top use case, closely followed by backup/disaster recovery.
08/28/2018
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Downloading compiled C# code to the browser using Blazor is all very good -- but it would be so much better if you can integrate your Blazor code with JavaScript. Here’s how to do that.
08/27/2018
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Microsoft this month updated its R Open programming language with multi-processor support highlighting new functionality.
08/27/2018
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A brand-new C++ offering for Catch2 highlights the growing body of test explorers for the cross-platform, open source Visual Studio Code editor available in its marketplace.
08/27/2018
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.NET development tool specialist JetBrains has launched ReSharper Ultimate 2018.2, with performance improvements, support for C# 7.3 and initial support for the hot new Blazor project, which aims to allow for C#-based Web development.
08/23/2018
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Things are happening fast for ASP.NET Core, as Microsoft just released a new Version 2.2.0 preview while a recent developer survey indicates the Web dev framework is quickly becoming a mainstream option.
08/23/2018
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The modernization of the .NET ecosystem is paying off for Microsoft's Bing.com engineering team, which reports a 34 percent performance boost for the search engine following a shift from .NET Framework to .NET Core 2.1
08/22/2018
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The latest update for Visual Studio for Mac focuses on improving code editor reliability, IDE performance and working with Azure Functions.
08/21/2018
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Microsoft is bringing a pseudo console to Windows 10, which will make it easier for developers to connect their command-line and graphical user interface-based applications.
08/21/2018
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Here's what it's like to live and program in the mountains of Montana.
08/20/2018
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Microsoft Store on Oct. 31 will stop accepting new app submissions for Windows Phone 8.x or earlier, along with XAP or APPX packages for Windows 8/8.1.
08/20/2018