An explanation of the Visual Studio Online outage that occurred July 18 was simply Azure SQL Database slowness, but it was a bit more than that.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/31/2014
A mere month later, Microsoft's point release of the Unity gaming platform add-on comes mainly with debugging improvements.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/30/2014
How to use Xamarin.Auth, Xamarin.Social, and the Facebook SDK for Android to interact with Facebook within a Xamarin.Android application.
- By Wallace McClure
- 07/29/2014
Support for cross-origin resource sharing now built in via the ASP.NET Web API.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/29/2014
Weight decay and weight restriction are two closely related, optional techniques that can be used when training a neural network. This article explains exactly what weight decay and weight restriction are, and how to use them with an existing neural network application or implement them in a custom application.
- By James McCaffrey
- 07/28/2014
An interaction script bridges the gap between designing concepts and actually adding controls to forms. The interaction script will tell you what your application needs to do, leading you (finally) to what controls you need on which forms.
Version 2.0.0, released earlier this month, contains a bevy usability, functionality, and configurability improvements, as well as rounds up a number of bug fixes.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/24/2014
After Wayne's employer decided to bring some outsourced code back in house, he discovered that developers in Kerbleckistan were doing some serious innovating in the science of passing parameters.
New security-minded Worker Account capability can be written into iOS, Android and OS X apps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/23/2014
A few features get fine-tuned, including how Visual Studio Online is able to add a directory to an existing account to better centralize identity management.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/22/2014
Database schema comparisons, security among incremental updates made to this July 2014 release of SSDT.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/21/2014
Kenny Kerr continues his series about compiler fundamentals by introducing the syntax analysis, grammars, and the act of parsing or interpreting source code.
The principles of great UI design start from a different place than the principles that lead to great application design. They both end up in exactly the same place, though.
CTP 1 of the Microsoft development platform package manager introduces a new package source, speeds up performance and adds a debugger console.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/17/2014
Ondrej Balas continues his series on refactoring code for dependency injection, focusing on techniques that make it easier to refactor complex applications.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 07/16/2014
Next up: Developer kits to roll out to early registrants, along with open source code for building Internet of Things-connected apps and devices.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/16/2014
New technology called Apportals aimed at enterprise developers working in healthcare, sales and distributed organizations and requires XAML and C# skills to set up.
The best thing you can do in order to create a great UI is to stop thinking about UI design.
When you need a specialty development tool like an HTTP debugger, you have a few options. I'll take a look at the popular current offerings and talk to some of their developers about the experience of building these apps.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 07/14/2014
The Windows Phone app for creating Windows Phone apps adds a bevy of features for testers to try out, including some design improvements, as well as support for more REST services connections.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/14/2014