Microsoft's newest CEO seems to understand the challenges Microsoft faces, and is positioning the company to re-assert its preeminent place in the industry.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 06/04/2014
It's a preview of the next version of the IDE, expected to hit in 2015.
Gartner also says Azure is still "Microsoft-centric," appealing primarily to .NET developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/03/2014
Entity Framework 6 gives you a variety of ways to call stored procedures that return data and capture the results those procedures return. Here's a look at all of them.
The tool was entirely rebuilt for better monitoring of applications.
What's proper etiquette for handling code snafus when working for -- literally -- a mom-and-pop company?
Tighter integration with Visual Studio among the highlights.
Learn how to leverage the powerful resource system of Android to support a variety of Android devices and languages.
- By Greg Shackles
- 05/28/2014
The API is for the HTML Client.
The Update comes fewer than two weeks after the official release of Update 2 at TechEd North America.
When you implement the Model-View-ViewModel pattern you need to tell your View (in this case, a Windows Form) when the ViewModel has new data. Here's how to do that, along with a warning about how to avoid a potential bug.
It currently only works with new Visual Studio Online accounts, but that will soon change.
A cornucopia of code editing and collaboration software that lets you use the same familiar tools no matter what computer you're working on.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 05/21/2014
One Microsoft employee calls it a "business decision" -- and a bad one at that.
Take control of your application's behavior and move toward dependency injection by refactoring your existing code.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 05/20/2014
Visual Studio 2013 came with a new version of Web API. The Web API 2.1 update includes a host of new features, including support for Binary JSON. Learn how to leverage BSON by building a Web API 2.1 service.
Backbone is a popular library for creating MVC/MVVM-like applications in your client. Here's an introduction to Backbone and some best practices for creating a Single-Page Application with TypeScript.
Many developers are unhappy that future releases won't be supported on Visual Studio 2012 and earlier.
Dropout training is a relatively new algorithm which appears to be highly effective for improving the quality of neural network predictions. It's not yet widely implemented in neural network API libraries. Learn how to use dropout training if it's available in an existing system, or add dropout training to systems where it's not yet available.
- By James McCaffrey
- 05/13/2014
The API integrates many third-party tools and cloud-based services using standard Web technologies.