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Microsoft's latest update of its ML.NET open source machine learning framework comes with a twist: The company is offering to provide an engineer for one-on-one help to get it working in production use.
03/14/2019
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You've rewritten some code to make it "better" ... how do you know that?
03/13/2019
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You want to find all the places some object is used and, once you've found them, walk through them. Good news! You're just two keystrokes away from your goal.
03/12/2019
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Microsoft's experimental Blazor project to allow .NET coding for Web projects via experimental WebAssembly may be getting all the attention, but new open source tooling does something similar, acting like a bridge between the death of Silverlight and the production readiness of WebAssembly.
03/12/2019
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If you're moving your application's client-side code to Blazor, then you'll want Blazor to manage navigating between pages, too.
03/11/2019
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You want to use code-first Entity Framework and the idea of driving your database schema from your object model makes sense to you. Here's what you need to do when you're extending an existing database both in the .NET Framework and .NET Core.
03/11/2019
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ASP.NET Core's Razor Components -- aka server-side Blazor -- received a lot of attention in the just-released NET Core 3.0 Preview 3 as Microsoft continues to mature its initiative to run C# code in the browser instead of just JavaScript.
03/07/2019
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Microsoft-centric developers asking if the much-awaited .NET Core 3.0 release will ship with the much-awaited Visual Studio 2019 release now have the much-awaited answer to their question: No.
03/06/2019
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The new Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Preview 3 continues Microsoft's effort to boost the quality and reliability of the troublesome IDE by borrowing internals from the flagship Windows version.
03/06/2019
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There are lots of ways to handle databases in a containerized environment like Docker. Here's how to create SQL Server in a container, how to load it with the data you want and how to integrate that container into whatever project needs it. Be warned: Some PowerShell is used.
03/05/2019
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Here's how to run a "real-world" application (consisting of an MVC application and a Web Service) in a networked set of Docker containers. And it's just a couple of mouse clicks in Visual Studio to implement it.
03/05/2019
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Microsoft's move from the ageing Windows-only .NET Framework to the open source, cross-platform .NET Core framework may come with ancillary consequences, such as a boost in the popularity of its PowerShell scripting language.
03/05/2019
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Our resident doctor of data science this month tackles anomaly detection, using code samples and screenshots to explain the process of finding rare items in a dataset, such as discovering fraudulent login events or fake news items.
03/04/2019
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Microsoft has beefed up several data analytics offerings in its Azure cloud platform, including the general availability of Azure Data Explorer and Azure Data Lake Storage.
03/04/2019
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The Data Science doctor delves into supporting vector machines, software systems that can perform binary classification such as creating a model to predict the gender of a person based on their age, annual income, height and weight.
03/04/2019
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If you want to handle the most common pattern in ASP.NET Controllers (displaying a page and then accepting data entered into it), you can do it with Razor Pages. You'll just need less code than if you used a Controller, a View and a model object.
03/01/2019
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With cross-platform .NET Core 3.0 poised to support desktop applications -- the next step in totally subsuming the Windows-only .NET Framework -- Microsoft has published guidance on how to port existing WinForms and WPF projects to the new platform.
02/28/2019
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DIP may sound abstract but, of all the software design principles, Dependency Inversion is the one you understand best. Better yet, it describes how to build stable applications.
02/27/2019