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Microsoft shipped an update to its functional programming language, incorporating Span support in the new F# 4.5.
08/16/2018
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Expert advice often explains how to do things easier, but sometimes that advice resonates more when it details hard lessons learned.
08/15/2018
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New features in Visual Studio 2017 15.8 focus on productivity and performance.
08/15/2018
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Microsoft released a tool to help developers check if their Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Framework applications are ready for the new platform, which it said promises a "drastically better deployment solution."
08/14/2018
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If you want to impress your boss (or client) with your diligence in generating documentation for your Web Service, then you need Swagger. That it will also make it easier for you to run tests on your service and check for typical errors is just icing on the cake.
08/13/2018
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The July 2018 release of Visual Studio Code features new functionality for navigation, applying Quick Fixes to address problems, working with extensions and more.
08/13/2018
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Microsoft's Xamarin team announced a preview release that lets C# developers tackle iOS 12, the next major release of Apple's mobile OS that's expected to ship this fall.
08/10/2018
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Microsoft has shipped Windows Community Toolkit 4.0, after earlier this year renaming the collection of development tools to reflect its broader reach beyond Universal Windows Platform apps to frameworks such as WPF, WinForms, Xamarin and .NET Core.
08/09/2018
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Microsoft has updated ML.NET, its cross-platform, open source machine learning framework for .NET developers, as it asks for input on a major API revamp.
08/08/2018
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A new Visual Studio Code extension from the Amazon Alexa dev team targets the development and deployment of skills, or capabilities the voice-activated virtual assistant can perform in response to verbal commands.
08/08/2018
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Visual Studio is perfectly willing to work with any file that you want to add to your solution -- you just have to tell it what editor to use.
08/07/2018
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Microsoft issued fixes to address problems with .NET Framework applications that were caused by July Windows patches.
08/07/2018
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If you're building a Xamarin solution you should be using a .NET Standard Class library to hold your common code. Here's how to convert an existing Xamarin Solution using a Shared or PCL project to the new standard.
08/06/2018
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Microsoft's Xamarin team announced the availability of Xamarin.Android 9.0 (P) Preview, letting Visual Studio developers target the next big update to Google's Android mobile OS.
08/03/2018
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Testing is a necessary but not a value-added task. To put it another way, while testing is something we have to do, our users would be just as happy if we could produce quality software without it. Understanding that leads to a realistic approach to testing.
08/02/2018
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This week Microsoft released updates to .NET Framework versions to fix problems caused by its botched July 10 patches, but some key Windows systems remain unpatched.
08/02/2018
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Blazor is the Microsoft toolset that exploits the WebAssembly standard to let you write C# code that will run in your browser. Here's how to set up Visual Studio 2017 and create your first app.
08/01/2018
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As the number of your automated tests starts to pile up, using "Run All" to make sure that you haven't introduced any new bugs starts to look less attractive. Fortunately, Visual Studio makes it easy to organize your tests into groups.
08/01/2018