Asynchronous services are easier to implement with support of the await and async keywords in WCF 4.5. We look at that, as well as contract-first development.
- By Joydip Kanjilal
- 08/05/2015
Clean up your Razor views with the new tag helpers in ASP.NET MVC 6.
Some of the hidden gems in the just-released VS 2015 include improved account management as developers go from one environment to another, and the addition of some nifty features in the Productivity Power Tools for VS 2015.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/03/2015
Simple licensing change that allows single user to use VSO and TFS will go into effect September 1. And VSO Basic pricing is simplified as well.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/02/2015
Microsoft's developer division has been gearing up for this day, as it now officially opens up the Windows 10 Store and announces a handful of Windows 10 resources that developers can deploy in live production environments.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/29/2015
Partial Views can make creating Single-Page Applications dramatically easier by better achieving the goals of the MVC design pattern. Here, in TypeScript, is how to leverage Partial Pages to create an AJAX-enabled application in ASP.NET MVC.
We catch up with the MSDN magazine columnist on remembrances of things past, and ask him what he sees in the future for programmers living in a mobile-first, cloud-first world.
EF7 Beta 6 adds data annotations, customization of reverse engineer via templates, and support for raw SQL commands.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/28/2015
Visual Studio developers can use a number of Web Essentials features to speed up Web development.
Along with VS 2015 and .NET 4.6, VS 2012 Update 5 RC is now available, and with it come a few fixes and the capability to allow projects to be renamed.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/24/2015
The ListView in Xamarin.Forms has a lot of options, and the ability to use a custom cell is one of the more useful features.
- By Wallace McClure
- 07/24/2015
Changes in licensing allows anyone with the basic CAL to get access to features that were available only to premium subscribers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/23/2015
A View without any code is probably impossible in any real-world application. But, by leveraging Partial Views, you can still separate your View-related code from your HTML.
DocumentDB brings together the best of No-SQL and the cloud, to give you a robust scalable data persistence engine. Here's what you need to know to start developing projects with it.
- By Brian Korzynski
- 07/22/2015
Let's explore mini-batch training, the third among a variety of back-propagation algorithms you can use for training a neural network.
- By James McCaffrey
- 07/21/2015
Also released is Visual Studio 2013 Update 5, which rolls up a number of bug fixes but also adds features for developers to perform load testing of apps via an Azure site globally from within Team Foundation Server.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/20/2015
Now that Visual Studio 2015 is upon us, here's a brief overview of the capabilities of the .NET Compiler Platform.
An update to Microsoft's cross-platform code editor adds support for the popular scripting language.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/16/2015
Domain-Driven Design claims that it provides a strategy for building applications that will grow and evolve over time without collapsing under their own complexity. It does that by upsetting some conventional wisdom.
You lose some functionality with the default editor in Visual Studio 2013. Here's how to quickly switch back and get the functionality you were used to.