The company packed quite a bit into a three-hour keynote that spanned the spectrum of Microsoft technologies and hardware. For developers, the emphasis was on cross-platform app building, with new tools built right into the next Visual Studio 2015.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/29/2015
Promises not only provides a simple, flexible interface for assembling chains of asynchronous operations in client-side code, it also makes it easier for you to manage parallel processing.
Project renaming, a top user feature, now available, as is account restoration and several incremental configuration updates to Kanban boards and Taskboards.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/28/2015
Building line-of-business mobile apps for Windows Phone that connect to Microsoft Azure for authentication, data storage and notifications isn't much different from on-premises apps. Here's what it takes.
- By Nick Randolph
- 04/28/2015
Some things only matter to the true nerd. So, if you're looking for a genuinely useful article, this isn't it.
In all likelihood, Microsoft will highlight Universal App building. Here's what we know now. Specifics, of course, will be well known by the end of the week.
- By Visual Studio Magazine Editors
- 04/27/2015
A Windows 10 preview targeting "fast-ring" testers is released ahead of Microsoft's conference season.
It's what unit testing should be. Here's how to use it to test your apps.
- By Jason Roberts
- 04/22/2015
Cloud service for orchestrating microservices from within Visual Studio will have a preview at next week's Microsoft Build conference.
Display data to a user with Xamarin.iOS and this nifty class.
- By Wallace McClure
- 04/20/2015
As the group gets absorbed back into Microsoft, the company will start up a new open source advocacy group, Microsoft Open Technology Programs Office.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/20/2015
Microsoft pulled its SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 after numerous reports of installation errors.
Z-Ray to provide productivity enhancements for PHP developers working within Microsoft's managed cloud service.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/16/2015
Stored procedures can speed up your code by reducing trips to your database -- even if you only have one SQL statement to execute. Here's how to speed up your application (and how to simplify your stored procedure code).
Writing software is a complicated process. These new Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 extensions help your projects stay on schedule.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 04/15/2015
Back-Propagation is the most common algorithm for training neural networks. Here's how to implement it in C#.
- By James McCaffrey
- 04/14/2015
Another preview of the Unity gaming debugging plugin will have support for the Unity 5 gaming platform update, as well as an Options panel for enabling/disabling new features as needed.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/14/2015
User experience expert Billy Hollis points to great deal of uncertainty, and describes the best response for success in such a world.
Microsoft announced general availability of its NoSQL service for developers and IT pros.
Microsoft's Visual Studio team live-demo recent enhancements to the platforms that facilitate mobile device and cloud development.