Did you know you can combine C#, F#, Visual Basic, Razor, HTML and JavaScript within a single app?
- By Greg Shackles
- 12/01/2014
The Microsoft MEF can be used for dependency injection, but it does it much differently than most other containers. See how to get the most from the unique features of MEF.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 11/21/2014
Integrating unit testing into your coding practices can have some positive psychological effects on your programming career.
- By Patrick Steele
- 11/18/2014
Reactive Extensions will let you catch interim results from a long running process. Coupled with the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 support for asynchronous processing, you don't even have to lock up your client while you process those results.
A neural network implementation can be a nice addition to a Python programmer's skill set. If you're new to Python, examining a neural network implementation is a great way to learn the language.
- By James McCaffrey
- 11/12/2014
ASP.NET MVC 5.1 has new HTML helpers that can be used to ease Bootstrap integration, as well as enum data type binding.
Here's how to build a Windows Phone application that synchronizes data with Azure Mobile Services, triggered when the device restores its network connection.
- By Nick Randolph
- 11/01/2014
Peter extends his Backbone/Typescript application to support updating and deleting Customer objects. Along the way he discovers what looks like a bug in the way that Backbone and TypeScript work together.
Like JSON, only in binary format, BSON is now easier to parse with built-in media type formatters that are included with ASP.NET Web API 2.2 Client Libraries. Here's how.
Eric Vogel covers some of the new features in ASP.NET MVC 5.1. In this first of a two-part series, he takes a good, long look at some new attribute routing options.
Explicitly setting all the bindings needed to compose your application -- that's a lot of work! See how to use convention over configuration to save time and make your composition easier to understand.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 10/28/2014
The Xamarin tool ecosystem is gaining popularity, as more developers continue to build tools with mobility in mind. Here's how to use them in your projects.
- By Wallace McClure
- 10/23/2014
When you have a process that can return multiple results over time, then .NET Framework Reactive Extensions will let you simplify your code and manage it better.
Simplex optimization is one of the simplest algorithms available to train a neural network. Understanding how simplex optimization works, and how it compares to the more commonly used back-propagation algorithm, can be a valuable addition to your machine learning skill set.
- By James McCaffrey
- 10/16/2014
Creating a full-featured extension for the ASP.NET MVC HtmlHelper class sounds like a lot of work. But, because of the way the Microsoft .NET Framework works, it's almost trivially easy. To show that, here's an EditBlockFor method that adds a label, a textbox and a validation message to your ASP.NET View.
Windows Phone applications can use Azure Active Directory to authenticate users and authorize access to Azure Mobile Services. Nick Randolph walks through the process, step by step.
- By Nick Randolph
- 10/13/2014
Andrew does integration for a living. As a result, weird client data comes with the territory, but one client's data in particular stands out as being truly unique.
Peter upgrades his Backbone/Typescript to respond to the event raised when the user selects an item in a dropdown list by retrieving related data from a Web API service.
Now you have compiler fundamentals down pat, let's move on to some of the techniques you can use to improve the parser's design and performance.
Lots of decisions go into creating cross-platform apps. Without Xamarin.Forms, the decision process is almost too unwieldy. Here's how it can simplify your mobile development.
- By Wallace McClure
- 09/30/2014
DI containers all serve a similar purpose, but with some differences in syntax and functionality. Ondrej Balas explains the differences between Ninject, Castle Windsor, Unity, StructureMap and Autofac.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 09/25/2014
Peter returns to improve performance by splitting a single table into multiple entities, but this time, he implements his solution using the Entity Framework 6 designer.
Dr. McCaffrey walks you through how to use the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, a new front-end for Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, to get a neural prediction system up and running.
- By James McCaffrey
- 09/18/2014
There are some occasions when using Entity Framework can really hurt you: When you have tables with hundreds of columns or tables with large payloads. Here's how to get EF6 to do the right thing.
A look at some of the tools available to automate the creation of documentation for your Web API.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 09/16/2014