James McCaffrey explains what neural network activation functions are and why they're necessary, and explores three common activation functions.
- By James McCaffrey
- 06/07/2013
Sometimes you need more than roles to effectively manage authorizing user requests. You can do that without moving to claims-based security in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 by creating your own user object.
At Computex, Microsoft also showed off a growing number of devices for its newest OS.
One key change that will smooth your transition from ASP.NET to Windows 8 is to think like a designer from the outset.
- By Brandon Downing, Phillip Stewart
- 06/05/2013
At TechEd, Microsoft reveals the next release of Visual Studio will be available later this year.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 06/05/2013
The new version of the .NET-focused unit-testing product aims to quickly find and fix bugs.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 06/04/2013
While there are several tools available to monitor your application's performance, when it comes to improving your UI, it's your understanding of your users that's critical to finding problems.
MSDN subscribers get a host of new benefits as well, including credit toward Azure time, making cloud-based development free in some cases.
C++ has several methods -- including the <type_traits> header and runtime type information -- to help your application make type-based decisions.
Mickey Gousset reviews a Visual Studio extension that provides real-time collaboration options.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 06/03/2013
The Prototype Pattern involves cloning objects. Learn how to create both deep and shallow clones for instances in your program where creating a new object won't work.
The latest version is Release Candidate (RC) 2, and Microsoft says it's safe for production use.
Windows Azure may have been slow out of the gate, but Microsoft's efforts to make it more of an Infrastructure as a Service platform is starting to pay off.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 05/30/2013
The decorator pattern is a good way to add extensibility to an application, as it follows SOLID design principles. Learn how to use it by adding validation logic to a form.
Predicate methods allow you to separate the criteria you're using to test items in a collection from the code that processes the collection. You may never write a For...Each loop again.
Use AJAX and some JavaScript libraries to decouple your data and presentation logic.
- By Patrick Steele
- 05/23/2013
Rackspace Cloud SDK for Microsoft .NET is a tool suite for .NET developers working with the OpenStack cloud OS.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 05/16/2013
Xoreax Software releases version 4.6 of its code-build-acceleration product.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 05/13/2013
Microsoft exec also says Visual Studio 2012 has been downloaded more than 4 million times since its release.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/10/2013
Understanding the feed-forward mechanism is required in order to create a neural network that solves difficult practical problems such as predicting the result of a football game or the movement of a stock price.
- By James McCaffrey
- 05/10/2013