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Visual Studio and .NET-centric developers are no doubt waiting to see how today's news that Microsoft will acquire open source giant GitHub will affect their day-to-day coding, but there is already no shortage of strong opinions being voiced
06/04/2018
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Expert Web developer Chris Klug helps makes sense of today's complicated Web dev ecosystem and the tools and technologies that are emerging at a dizzying pace.
06/01/2018
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Your DELETE request to the service just timed out. Surely, it's safe to send it again. Actually, it may not be.
05/30/2018
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TypeScript applies type safety to JavaScript but, with conditional types, adds some flexibility in how consistent your types are.
05/29/2018
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New support for styling Xamarin.Forms apps with CSS may be controversial, but Greg Shackles thinks CSS is a powerful (and frequently maligned) solution to the problem of styling native mobile applications. See what he means in this hands-on tutorial.
05/29/2018
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Your update request to the service just timed out. Is it safe to send it again? Maybe. Here's how to ensure that all your update, delete and add requests are safe plus some advice on what you should really be calling them and handling concurrency.
05/29/2018
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Sometimes your applications have to combine older technology with newer practices. Here's one example of how to keep your code up to date without replacing it.
05/29/2018
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Here's a guide to the colorful lines down the right-hand margin of your editor window (and how to get them).
05/22/2018
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If you want to implement a fully "REST-compliant" application you should address a critical question: How do consumers know what URLs to use? What if all the consumer needed to know was how to use the HTTP protocol and a little common sense?
05/22/2018
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Here's what a real-world "Hello, World" TypeScript application looks like (beginning with a discussion of whether you need TypeScript at all).
05/14/2018
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If you've got a recent version of Visual Studio (Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition, for example) then you can start creating an Android application. Here's what you need to do to get your first project set up.
05/01/2018
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The data science doctor explains everything you need to know about clustering data, the process of grouping items so those in a group (cluster) are similar and items in different groups are dissimilar.
04/30/2018
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The VS Code team is well-known for going all in on Python development, but the Visual Studio IDE team has also been busy in adding and improving features for using the popular and growing programming language.
04/27/2018
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With a host of improvements based on customer and SQL community feedback, the SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 was released by Microsoft.
04/27/2018
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Developers creating base classes can decide what should and should not be inherited. So can developers creating derived classes.
04/26/2018
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Microsoft is previewing a Visual Studio Code extension for working with Internet of Things projects in the Azure cloud, including a DevKit with a customized Arduino-based board.
04/25/2018
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JetBrains, a .NET development specialist, continues to cater to developers who prefer to code in the Visual Studio IDE or those who would rather use an alternative IDE.
04/25/2018
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iOS devices aren't traditionally used for Internet of Things deployments, but Microsoft is seeking to help change that.
04/24/2018
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Stop. Just stop.
04/23/2018
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Linux support, the most-requested feature for Visual Studio Code Live Share -- which allows real-time collaboration among developers on different machines and platforms -- was announced this week.
04/20/2018
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Microsoft has updated Blazor -- for full-stack Web apps coded in C# -- with new features including the ability to create reusable component libraries.
04/19/2018
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Windows Template Studio, an open source Visual Studio extension that provides a low-code approach to creating Universal Windows Platform apps, launched in version 2.0 with an improved Visual Studio UI highlighting new features.
04/19/2018
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From variables to inheritances to what JavaScript patterns you really need to know, C# MVP Ben Hoelting offers his top tips for C# coders looking to use JavaScript to build complex client-side Web apps.
04/17/2018
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Mozilla has unveiled an IDE for coding WebAssembly projects that could serve as an alternative to Visual Studio and the Visual Studio Code editor.
04/17/2018
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At the RSA security conference, Microsoft announced a preview of Azure Sphere for securely connecting Internet of Things devices.
04/17/2018
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As part of putting together a request to a Web Service, whatever tool you’re using will format an HTTP request. That request has two main parts: The headers (which includes the URL and the HTTP verb) and the body (your JSON payload), with the body being optional.
04/16/2018
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From new features like async return types and advice on when to use the latest structures, here's Microsoft MVP Jason Bock's top tips for developers currently working with concurrent and asynchronous programming.
04/13/2018