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    Visual Studio 2019 Gets Closer with Preview 2

    Visual Studio 2019 is expected to ship in the first half of this year, and it just took another step on that journey with the release of its second preview that improves just about every area of the IDE experience. 01/24/2019

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    Windows 10 Mobile Revival Effort Grows

    An effort among users beseeching Microsoft to rethink the impending end of Windows 10 Mobile seems to be picking up steam after the platform's latest death knell. 01/24/2019

  • 21 New Tools and Extensions for Visual Studio 2017

    From legacy xBase code to cutting-edge Quantum computing, these Visual Studio extensions will make you more productive. 01/23/2019

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    Microsoft Garage's XAML Studio Does Real-Time UWP UI Changes

    The Microsoft Garage initiative for experimental hacking projects championed by interns and staffers has come out with new tools including XAML Studio, used to smooth iterative development by quickly prototyping Universal Windows Project apps. 01/23/2019

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    Progress Previews Telerik UI for Blazor

    In response to developer requests, .NET-centric tooling specialist Progress is supporting Microsoft's experimental Blazor project for C# Web development in a major new release of its UI-focused components. 01/23/2019

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    Windows 10 Mobile Support Ends in December

    Microsoft confirmed the official demise of its mobile initiative will be Dec. 10, 2019, when support ends for Windows 10 Mobile, the failed challenger to iOS and Android. 01/22/2019

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    New Xamarin Controls Highlight Syncfusion's Update of .NET-Centric UI Components

    .NET development tools specialist Syncfusion is out with another update of its UI components suite, with new Xamarin controls of special interest to mobile developers. 01/22/2019

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    Cloud Explorer (VS 2017 Azure Workload) Gets IoT Update

    The Cloud Explorer tool installed automatically with Azure Workloads in Visual Studio 2017 now sports additional functionality for interacting with the Azure IoT Hub. 01/18/2019

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    Tool Converts Visual Studio IDE Code Snippets for VS Code Editor

    Developer Rick Strahl, tired of the cumbersome process of converting his many Visual Studio IDE code snippets into formats that can be used in the Visual Studio Code editor and the JetBrains Rider IDE, has created a tool to automate the process. 01/16/2019

  • Self-Organizing Maps Using Python

    Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses a full project code sample and screenshots to detail how to use Python to work with self-organizing maps (SOM), which let you investigate the structure of a set of data. 01/15/2019

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    GitHub Tool Does Pull Requests from Visual Studio Code

    GitHub highlighted improvements to its Visual Studio Code extension that lets developers manage pull requests from the open source code repository with a few clicks from within the code editor. 01/15/2019

  • Working with Session in ASP.NET MVC Core (or: Why You Can't Migrate)

    Here's everything you need to write code for the Session object in ASP.NET Core -- including why you can't expect to migrate your existing ASP.NET MVC application to ASP.NET MVC Core (though Peter has some suggestions on easing that pain). 01/14/2019

  • Extending the ASP.NET Core Processing Pipeline

    Amazingly, at least one thing is easier in ASP.NET Core than it is in ASP.NET: Adding your own functionality to the ASP.NET Core processing pipeline. 01/11/2019

  • Bundling Scripts in ASP.NET Core

    You can still bundle scripts to save download time but, in ASP.NET MVC Core, it's more about configuration than code. 01/10/2019

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    ML.NET Update for Machine Learning Comes with New Visual Studio Templates

    Microsoft today released an update to its ML.NET framework that includes new Visual Studio templates to help developers code their machine learning projects. 01/10/2019

  • When the Watch Window in Visual Studio Doesn't Update

    It's not always obvious, but sometimes the Watch window isn't always showing you the latest data. Here's how to tell and what you can do about it (sort of). 01/09/2019

  • Lazy Loading in Entity Framework Core

    Good news for .NET Core developers: There's a package that gives Entity Framework Core the lazy loading capabilities that your existing applications may be using. Or may not be using -- you might not know, which is the real problem. 01/08/2019

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    Will Flutter Become a Xamarin Option?

    An open source GitHub project championed by a handful of developers seeks to add Google's new Flutter mobile UI framework as an option for creating native mobile apps in the Xamarin framework. 01/08/2019

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