I predict you'll find this logistic regression example with R to be helpful for gleaning useful information from common binary classification problems.
- By James McCaffrey
- 12/07/2016
We've gathered together the newest project templates, security tools and generally useful extensions for Visual Studio.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 12/06/2016
If you're using Skip and Take in LINQ to page through your data, a tweak to your syntax can cut your response time by as much as 10 percent as you page through your data.
If you care about data typing and want to avoid null/undefined errors, there's a lot you're going to like in TypeScript 2.0. And, if you like creating general purpose functions that can work with a variety of classes, there's something here for you, too.
As the year winds down, so does the work being done by the Visual Studio Team Services team as it rolls out Sprint 109. Micrsoft's Brian Harry highlights build task versioning, pull request tracking, and support for Linux hosted build pools in this one.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/05/2016
How crucial is the technology you choose to run it and build apps? It almost doesn't matter, as long as your chosen path provides enough options to deliver to customers the solutions they need. We look at the Microsoft stack as an example.
- By Wallace McClure
- 12/02/2016
Last time, I created the app. This time, I take care of a few annoying but important issues with it, especially in the area of the user's experience with application connectivity.
- By Wallace McClure
- 12/01/2016
In a Q&A preview of her session at Live! 360, veteran Visual Studio Live! presenter Rachel Appel shares her thoughts on the benefits of working with SignalR.
A .NET port of the Ruby library allows for experimental testing of code that's gone to production.
- By Jason Roberts
- 11/30/2016
Two new tools for cross-platform developers provide insight into app performance and allow for real-time XAML previews.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/29/2016
When you're testing an ASP.NET MVC controller (or, really, any class at all) you want to make sure the code that fails is the code you're testing. Moq provides a simple way to isolate the code you're testing and lets you generate test cases.
Pile on the exceptions, and .NET will have your back with the tools it provides at your disposal.
The Automated Typings Acquisition module that was disabled in VS Code 1.7 looks to be working as originally intended, and is now in a new incremental build available this week.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/23/2016
The Visual Studio 2017 RC from a week ago introduced speedier build and edit-debug tools for TACO, and an improved IDE for Unity game devs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/23/2016
Microsoft has been on the Linux bandwagon for a while, and many of the development tool offerings announced at this week's Connect(); event prove that the company is in it for the long haul.
The ability to embrace U-SQL jobs via authoring, scripting, extensibility via the VSCode environment and using C# is the key to this tooling preview.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/17/2016
Sometimes you want child objects retrieved with the parent object, and sometimes you don't. What you NEVER want is to retrieve child objects accidentally. Here's Peter's advice on how to get the best performance when loading child objects.
The new name for what we've been calling Visual Studio '15' is actually the smaller of several big news items to come out of today's Microsoft Connect(); event oline. Among the bigger reveals is the preview of a Mac-native version of Visual Studio.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/16/2016
Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie kicked off the Connect(); conference with an action-packed keynote where he revealed significant tooling improvements impacting mobile app development, containerized app dev, cross-platform mobile DevOps and serverless compute architectures, and more.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/16/2016
One highlight of this roll-up release is the addition of row-level security and dynamic data masking, which were only available in the Enterprise version, are now in Standard, Express, and other versions.