Asynchronous services are easier to implement with support of the await and async keywords in WCF 4.5. We look at that, as well as contract-first development.
- By Joydip Kanjilal
- 08/05/2015
Clean up your Razor views with the new tag helpers in ASP.NET MVC 6.
Partial Views can make creating Single-Page Applications dramatically easier by better achieving the goals of the MVC design pattern. Here, in TypeScript, is how to leverage Partial Pages to create an AJAX-enabled application in ASP.NET MVC.
Visual Studio developers can use a number of Web Essentials features to speed up Web development.
The ListView in Xamarin.Forms has a lot of options, and the ability to use a custom cell is one of the more useful features.
- By Wallace McClure
- 07/24/2015
A View without any code is probably impossible in any real-world application. But, by leveraging Partial Views, you can still separate your View-related code from your HTML.
DocumentDB brings together the best of No-SQL and the cloud, to give you a robust scalable data persistence engine. Here's what you need to know to start developing projects with it.
- By Brian Korzynski
- 07/22/2015
Let's explore mini-batch training, the third among a variety of back-propagation algorithms you can use for training a neural network.
- By James McCaffrey
- 07/21/2015
Now that Visual Studio 2015 is upon us, here's a brief overview of the capabilities of the .NET Compiler Platform.
Domain-Driven Design claims that it provides a strategy for building applications that will grow and evolve over time without collapsing under their own complexity. It does that by upsetting some conventional wisdom.
You lose some functionality with the default editor in Visual Studio 2013. Here's how to quickly switch back and get the functionality you were used to.
Let's wrap up this series on TDD for ASP.NET MVC and talk about the view layer via JavaScript.
You've moved your ASP.NET MVC application into production and all of your lovely AJAX calls have started failing. The solution is to ensure the URLs you're using in your AJAX calls are absolutely correct.
The newest version of C# 6.0 that you'll see in Visual Studio 2015 improves and streamlines the way you'll code for a "mobile first, cloud first" world.
In this second of a series, we'll find out how to make sure your product is reaching the right market. But first, you need to work on you before you work on your product.
- By Wallace McClure
- 06/30/2015
In TypeScript 1.4, you get type-safe support even when you may be working with multiple types, better type checking when inferring types and aliases for type definitions.
Xamarin Forms makes the hard work of navigation in apps from device to device a much simpler developer proposition. Here's what I've learned so far.
- By Wallace McClure
- 06/24/2015
You've developed a killer app that you know other developers and users want. Are you ready to take it to market? It's time to do some research and see where this new venture can take you. (First in a series.)
- By Wallace McClure
- 06/23/2015
How to unit test view model validation, focusing on the controller when the model is bound to a controller action.
If users enter an invalid URL, then ASP.NET MVC will handle the problem by issuing a generic HTTP error. Here's how to give users more support (plus some advice on avoiding the problem altogether).
Nick Randolph investigates the inner workings of the new compiled data binding support available to Windows platform developers in the Universal Windows Platform.
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/17/2015
When things go wrong in production, logging provides a way of going back through an application's history to find out what happened. Here's the simplest possible way to use Peter's favorite third-party logging utility: NLog.
Here's how to use non-standard activation functions to customize your neural network system.
- By James McCaffrey
- 06/11/2015
You're vying for a senior developer position. Here's what you need to know to win over your interviewer.
- By Patrick Steele
- 06/10/2015
SharePoint 2013 offers several ways to interact with the SharePoint data, one of which is through the SharePoint SDK for Windows Phone 8. Malin De Silva walks through the process.
- By Malin De Silva
- 06/10/2015