As Microsoft ends further development of LightSwitch, the "development" tool aimed at line-of-business types, it introduces an alternative: PowerApps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/17/2016
Once you start implementing current design practices, you'll find that your typical object consists of a lot of other objects.
Goto statements, whether they're used in Visual Basic or C#, can be confounding as to their purpose in some contexts.
One month after release, there's already a slew of fixes and enhancements that are responses to user feedback to the toolkit. Also, it's now a .NET Foundation project.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/13/2016
Fresh from Ignite, the Azure teams have been on a DevOps-heavy kick with a number of new tools for managing Azure services.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/13/2016
Cross-platform software development has come a long way. Here's a roundup of tools, templates and plug-ins for .NET coding that targets Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS -- even Raspberry Pi and Lego.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 10/12/2016
That noexcept keyword is tricky, but just know that if you use it, your coding world will spin faster.
- By Kate Gregory
- 10/11/2016
The final point release of Microsoft's JavaScript-like language comes with tagged unions, glob support and new types with which to play around.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/11/2016
In an object-oriented world you create flexible applications by combining objects. You'll want to keep those objects loosely coupled, though, so that a change in one class doesn't force you to rewrite every class. Here's how to keep them loosely coupled.
Performance comes in the form of shorter load times and more efficient memory usage across the tooling. and productivity are highlights of this latest preview.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/06/2016
Microsoft is making it so much more convenient for developers to get hands-on experience building Windows 10- and UWP-based apps -- via preconfigured Windows 10-based virtual machines.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/05/2016
The R language can be used to perform a sign test, which is handy for comparing "before and after" data.
- By James McCaffrey
- 10/05/2016
From VSLive!: Microsoft's Matt Nunn demonstrated some use cases for the modern cloud platform, one that opens up options for businesses to tranform the way they do business internally and externally.
From Microsoft Ignite: Shum will lead new group formed out of Microsoft Research and others that will study the implications of artificial intelligence on future innovations in computing and development.
TypeScript might change the way you design an application that uses IndexedDB.
From Visual Studio Live!, Anaheim: Brian Randell gets beyond buzzwords with a DevOps demo that puts .NET Core and Visual Studio Team Services right in the middle of the mix.
From Visual Studio Live!: Microsoft's Xamarin guy James Montemagno described the combination of C# and Xamarin as the perfect mobile platform.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella demonstrated some of the AI supercomputing capabilities in its Azure public cloud that make it now among the fastest cloud services available. The secret sauce is the use of field-programmable gate arrays.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/30/2016
Microsoft's Visual Studio team says that even though it's a release candidate, it can be used for developing production-ready apps, which the company has dogfooded it internally. Also: Pricing for Release Management available, now that it's a part of TFS '15' RC2.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/29/2016
A case study in swift .NET application debugging using a variety of free tools that can help keep a client happy.
- By Kamran Bilgrami
- 09/29/2016