You don't need to take your hands off the keyboard to move to another tab in the Toolbox.
Your Xamarin Forms App needs one more little tweak, and that's to make it device-specific, so users don't freak out. Unlike the Apple tweak, the Android tweak takes a bit of work.
- By Wallace McClure
- 02/08/2017
Find out more about this new feature of ASP.NET Core 1.0 and how it might help you.
If you decide on using an Enum with enumerated values in your Entity Framework class, here are the tools you'll need to make it work. But an enumerated value shouldn't be your first choice.
Here are two ways to save some typing when defining anonymous objects. One only works in Visual Basic, though.
Welcome to the 21st century, C#, now that case blocks support a variety of pattern-matching formats.
Find the patterns in your data sets using these Clustering.R script tricks.
- By James McCaffrey
- 02/01/2017
A roundup of a few more features: deprecated any type, literal datatypes, read-only properties, more!
You want to keep an object around only as long as you have memory available, do ya? Then you need the WeakReference class.
On the Windows platform, the C++ language offers several ways to process a file. We'll look at four approaches for serial IO access.
- By Bartlomiej Filipek
- 01/26/2017
Marten is PostgreSQL-based, so take advantage of relational features where it makes sense. Here's an example.
- By Jason Roberts
- 01/24/2017
Peter starts off with a perfectly good solution to a problem but then complicates the problem . . . and ends up moving to a different design pattern. While on that journey he has some best practices around designing Data Transfer Objects.
You probably use ToList to convert your LINQ results into Lists. It's almost as easy to convert any collection into a Dictionary whose items you can retrieve by key.
String functions, integer functions ... booorrring! Tuples in C# 7.0 -- let's explore what makes them infinitely more exciting.
Chatbots are the new mobile application. In this article, Nick demonstrates how you can integrate a bot right into your Universal Windows Platform app via the Microsoft Bot Framework Direct Line API.
- By Nick Randolph
- 01/17/2017
As a company's problems continue to become more complicated, your code will become more complicated. Peter shows how refactoring code can lead you to better designs.
Peter gets an improved tip from one reader and some more tips from another, all designed to navigate Visual Studio faster.
Let's break away from C# somewhat and learn how F# is a great fit for crafting mobile applications.
- By Greg Shackles
- 01/12/2017
Both are .NET Framework-based, but they don't seem to be speaking the same language.
The S3 OOP model is still widely used, so let's use write S3-style OOP code via the R language.
- By James McCaffrey
- 01/10/2017
Sometimes life is like playing Whack-a-Mole: You write some code that solves a problem, and then someone comes along and makes the problem harder. Here's how to continuously integrate new solutions without having to rewrite your old solutions (much).
Peter didn't bother doing any performance testing but he believes that this change has just got to speed up your ASP.NET MVC application.
The latest version of TypeScript provides developers with tools to create base classes and class hierarchies just like the other object-oriented languages.
Amazon offers solutions specifically for Visual Studio developers who want to start deploying services on its cloud. Here's a guide to do it with minimal effort and all it takes is digging into the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio.
Let's take a quick side trip and see what information we can glean from the .NET assembly.