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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
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Microsoft has boosted the performance of WebAssembly -- and JavaScript -- in Edge's rendering engine, benefitting both developers and users.
06/19/2018
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While the DbContext object has a Dispose method, you don't really need to use it ... with one exception.
06/18/2018
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ASP.NET code gives you enhanced ability to rewrite URLs to redirect client requests. But that leads to a key question: When should you use this new ability?
06/18/2018
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Open source champion Red Hat announced the general availability of .NET Core 2.1 for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift container platforms.
06/18/2018
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Windows Template Studio, Microsoft's low-code tool for quickly creating Universal Windows Platform apps, is aiming to support more project types, including Xamarin.Forms-based iOS and Android and (possibly) Windows Presentation Foundation apps.
06/15/2018
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Microsoft's .NET has come a long way from its origins as a closed-source software framework for Windows to become what James Montemagno describes as "a vast, open, constantly growing, and ever-evolving ecosystem" that millions of modern developers are leveraging to build applications for virtually any platform.
06/14/2018
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While Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella probably won't be working up a sweat jumping around a stage shouting, "containers, containers, containers!" the company is clearly ramping up its focus on the technology.
06/14/2018
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The young .NET Core, an open source, cross-platform alternative to .NET Framework, is increasingly becoming the runtime target choice for C# coders, according to new survey results published by JetBrains.
06/13/2018
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"You owe it to yourself" was a continuing theme in the keynote presentation about embracing constant change at the Visual Studio Live! conference in Boston today, presented by Jasmine Greenaway, a cloud developer advocate at Microsoft.
06/12/2018
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To better support developers who are building containerized applications that target Kubernetes in Visual Studio, Microsoft last week announced the preview of an extension for the IDE.
06/11/2018
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Scott Klein, CTO at Cloud and Devices, explains how enterprises can leverage the built-in intelligence features of SQL Server 2017 to ensure DevOps pays off.
06/08/2018
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Microsoft continues to churn out updates to its experimental Blazor technology for running C# code on the Web, with the latest boosting JavaScript interoperability.
06/08/2018
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The May update of Visual Studio Code has added documentation for using the popular MongoDB in Microsoft's lightweight, cross-platform code editor.
06/07/2018
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TypeScript 2.9 has shipped with several new editor features added along with some language/compiler features.
06/07/2018
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For the first time, Microsoft has begun to officially talk about Visual Studio 2019.
06/06/2018
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Microsoft reassured the developer community that GitHub will retain its open source independence following the big acquisition announced yesterday, though it will see deeper integration with Visual Studio Team Services.
06/05/2018