The 26-year-old Visual Basic programming language just won't go away, as Microsoft just announced plans to bring its IDE back to the Office for Mac environment.
Rider, a new alternative to Visual Studio for developing .NET applications that's based on IntelliJ IDEA and ReSharper, was released to manufacturing by JetBrains.
Microsoft's Scott Hanselman is trying to drum up interest in a community project created to provide an integrated terminal for command-line operations from within the Visual Studio IDE.
With the fall release of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, developers will be able to get full support for WSL, now that it's no longer labeled a beta service.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/28/2017
Those days are long gone, but Microsoft was at one time a notorious anti-open source company. It's turned that notion upside down within a decade, and is now a member of several foundations whose purposes are to steer open source development deep into the cloud.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/28/2017
It's a sweet win for X.Glu, this year's top team of student developers from the Czech Republic with a glucose meter that extends to the Azure cloud via an app built with Visual Studio and Xamarin.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/27/2017
Squash the dangers lurking in your SQL queries by setting parameters by way of parameterized queries.
Test, test and test again. You can automate those tests with a TestServer-based Web app that doesn't even touch the Web server.
- By Jason Roberts
- 07/27/2017
An update to this VS Code extension allows for locally running and debugging code prior to pushing code to production Azure services.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/26/2017
Playing around with Apple's Core Image imaging technology, using some simple C# code to perform facial recognition and apply filters to photos.
- By Wallace McClure
- 07/26/2017
Here’s a roundup of the newest tools and extensions available for the new Visual Studio 2017 release.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 07/25/2017
Update 2 is now out, and with enhancements to Delivery Plans and a more simplified Work Item search capability comes more pull request and git improvements, and a new build definition editor.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/25/2017
It's a programming language darling of those working in the data science/machine learning space, which might explain why Python takes the top spot in a recent IEEE survey. Plus: .NET Insight Podicast 11 explores coding camps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/24/2017
Part 2: Now that we've nailed down the serverless compute concepts, we'll use a handful of online tools to develop Azure Functions.
- By Joseph Fultz, Darren Brust
- 07/21/2017
James McCaffrey uses cross entropy error via Python to train a neural network model for predicting a species of iris flower.
- By James McCaffrey
- 07/20/2017
PowerShell Core, the version aimed at providing scripting capabilities across a number of platforms, will eventually supersede the Windows-only version. A beta is available now, with a full release planned for end of this year.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/19/2017
A new Release Definition Editor is in preview in this sprint, as well as a number of pull requests, including a good handful of Task group feature improvements.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/18/2017
The venerable relational database management system is now feature-complete, with support for Linux and containers running on Linux and Mac OS X, and it's available as a release candidate this week.
The cloud has enabled some incredible innovation, like serverless compute, which is transforming the way we build applications for the cloud. We dive into serverless concepts and explore how they are supported by Azure Functions.
- By Joseph Fultz, Darren Brust
- 07/17/2017
Among an explosion of free offerings in the Microsoft imprint are resources for mobile development, available to Microsoft Virtual Academy members. Plus, MS Press is discounting certification-related titles by more than half off if bought in bulk.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/14/2017