Demo-heavy sessions from Build will be circling the globe at select international cities. Also, this week's .NET Insight Podcast features excerpts from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's Build keynote, in which he gives some weight to the sheer amount of data that represents developer opportunity for decades to come.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/22/2017
Normally, you don’t care about first-chance exceptions -- it's only when something becomes a second-chance exception that you start to pay attention. But when you do care about all the exceptions, here’s how to work with them both in Visual Studio and in your code.
Microsoft's developers have been churning through code and delivering a dizzying array of tools and services. But there's still more to come this year, as Microsoft's Jeffrey T. Fritz explained at Visual Studio Live! this week.
Microsoft's Matt Nunn provides a whirlwind tour of the current state of tools and services that Microsoft has to offer developers in this VSLive! Austin keynote.
Another dozen of the latest tools and extensions available for Visual Studio 2015 and the recently released Visual Studio 2017. This time, it's build/test/ship tools.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 05/17/2017
Sensepost says it has discovered a method for hackers to compromise Microsoft Outlook by way of a Visual Basic-embedded shell. The catch: It requires a feat of social engineering to pull it off.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/17/2017
Last time I looked at the basics of triggers. Let's look at creating an HTTP-triggered function for displaying a greeting based on a target audience.
- By Jason Roberts
- 05/15/2017
Microsoft's Day 1 Keynote was one of information overload, with a slew of product announcements. But there was one bit of emotional overload that I couldn't let go. Also: an interview with Paul Pardi and Selina Winter of the Microsoft Learning Group in this week's .NET Insight Podcast.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/12/2017
The OutputCache attribute is a great way to improve both response time and scaleability, except there are many times when you can’t use it. Here’s how to leverage the HtmlHelper Action method to handle those exceptions.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella provided the framework of Microsoft's developer tooling and services so far and a nicely detailed glimpse into future direction. Then EVP Scott Guthrie detailed the vast number of new and upcoming offerings as a preview to the sessions taking place the rest of the week.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/10/2017
Let's catch up with the latest tools and extensions available for Visual Studio 2015 and the recently released Visual Studio 2017.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 05/10/2017
Microsoft's big developer shindig often sets the agenda for Microsoft's development efforts for the next year and beyond.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/09/2017
Learn how Mobile Center helps you easily develop, build, test, distribute, and monitor your mobile apps.
- By Greg Shackles
- 05/09/2017
You can force users to always get the most recent version of your ASP.NET Web page by using the last tool you'd expect to handle this: The OutputCache attribute.
NativeScript has undergone a major revision, with version 3.0 sporting improvements in cross-platform module implementations, command-line interface, and runtimes.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/03/2017
.NET Framework 4.7 now supports Windows versions besides the Creators Update, and the TypeScript team gets cracking on new PRs for version 2.4.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/03/2017
Here’s how to add AngularJS to an ASP.NET MVC application in Visual Studio 2015.
Let's explore factor analysis again, this time using the R ability to tap into OOP, but we won't use the RC model.
- By James McCaffrey
- 05/02/2017
It's possible to hook into document store events to monitor (and even modify) behavior.
- By Jason Roberts
- 05/01/2017
Here's the best performing option when you're retrieving the objects at the end of an entity class's navigation property, either when you only want some of the objects or when you only want them some of the time.