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Web workers in TypeScript give you concurrent processing but they can be awkward to debug. However, if you set up your web worker code as just another function, you can simplify debugging (or even build your web worker dynamically at run time).
02/14/2018
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Once you've created a JSON Schema that describes a JSON document, you can use it both in Visual Studio -- to provide guidance when creating JSON documents -- and in your code to validate the messages you're receiving.
02/13/2018
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If you ever have a question about a URL, then the Uri object has the answer.
02/13/2018
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If you don't need to replace the object stored in the variable, you might as well declare it as a constant.
02/12/2018
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Expert advice on using the latest techniques with Xamarin for your mobile development.
02/09/2018
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It's not really a Visual Studio tip but it can save you a lot of typing.
02/09/2018
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With TypeScript 2.4 If you've got a module that you only need in special cases, then you can put off loading it until that special case crops up.
02/08/2018
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The January 2018 update of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor incorporates the new TypeScript 2.7.1 edition, allowing for quicker fixing of errors in TypeScript and even regular JavaScript files.
02/08/2018
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Peter tries out Visual Studio Enterprise 2017's Live Unit Testing and has what might be a life-changing experience.
02/07/2018
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If you're thinking about moving to the cloud, the first step might be the easiest.
02/06/2018
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Here's how to use web workers in ASP.NET MVC with TypeScript to enable concurrent processing in your client-side code. And, as a bonus, the correct way to think about web workers.
02/05/2018
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We catch up with Abel Wang, senior cloud developer advocate at Microsoft and Visual Studio Live! keynote presenter, to ask him about exactly how feature flags make all the difference when it comes to implementing DevOps on a higher level in the enterprise.
02/05/2018
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Learn how to do time series regression using a neural network, with "rolling window" data, coded from scratch, using Python.
02/02/2018
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Microsoft's Visual Studio Code team has updated the popular, open source Python extension it acquired a few months ago, adding yet more functionality to the tool that has been installed more than 6 million times.
02/02/2018
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Windows Template Studio, Microsoft's open source, wizard-driven Visual Studio 2017 extension for coding UWP applications, is out in version 1.7 with new support for Visual Basic and the Prism framework.
02/02/2018
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In-Depth
This hands-on tutorial features an example app that displays a list of American cities, allowing the user to see a subset of choices by typing a filtering text value.
02/01/2018
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Microsoft yesterday shipped TypeScript 2.7, adding a bunch of new features as usual -- so many that a debate about bloat in the programming language was sparked on a social coding site.
02/01/2018
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SQL Server expert Leonard Lobel explains exactly how Always Encrypted, Dynamic Data Masking, RLS and more can make a real difference in securing your enterprise databases, plus he shares his favorite overall new feature in SQL Server 2016.
01/31/2018
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Imaging dev tools specialist LEAD Technologies announced the release of LEADTOOLS Version 20 with new libraries leveraging .NET Standard, Microsoft's effort to unify .NET API usage across different platforms and projects such as .NET Framework, .NET Core and Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin.
01/31/2018
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News
It's been just a couple week since the second preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6, with the latest iteration featuring improvements to Visual Studio Build Tools, Snapshot Debugging and more.
01/30/2018
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Here are five useful, ready-to-go extensions available for the Visual Studio Code editor to boost development for WordPress, a leading self-hosted blogging tool.
01/29/2018
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Putting a new twist on the term "low code," a new project from Microsoft Garage lets developers export wireframe sketches into Visual Studio, turning them into source code for basic UI constructs such as labels, buttons and text fields.
01/29/2018
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Microsoft this week announced a new analytics tool that lets Windows developers view details about desktop application performance and reach.
01/26/2018
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If you're building a RESTful Web service, you can provide both guidance and control around the JSON messages your service works with by replacing documentation with JSON Schemas.
01/25/2018
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Visual Studio Code, being based on the open source Electron framework, is among applications susceptible to a remote code execution vulnerability just announced and patched by the Electron team this week.
01/25/2018
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No matter how many HTTP codes there are, you really only need to check one property to determine success or failure.
01/25/2018
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In response to developer feedback, Microsoft is taking a page from the growing visual, low-code development approach to simplify Big Data analytics in the cloud with Azure Data Factory.
01/24/2018