Accessing Web APIs can be easily done using the HTTPClient Handler. This class expedites the development process in accessing data from a Web API, and allows for customizing the client handlers when the need arises.
Microsoft's Amanda Silver addressed the challenges of developing for a widening spectrum of devices infiltrating the enterprise, and demonstrated a few tools that have been added to the Visual Studio suite for tackling those challenges head on.
Here's an article about managing transactions that you don't need to read because, with one exception, Entity Framework will do the right thing by default. But, in the .NET Framework 4 and later, you can do more (if you ever need to).
Microsoft's Azure team releases NoSQL document database-as-a-service accessible for devs looking to toward the cloud for app development/deployment, as well as a few other developer-friendly Azure tools.
Third round of funding to go toward expanding Visual C#-based mobile app tool offerings, and to growing the company's sales and marketing teams.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/21/2014
Simple problems are often solved by simple solutions. Other times, simple problems are solved with an end user running a Web site from Visual Studio on their machine.
Unified API at root of changes that will allow developers using Xamarin tools to simplify developing for 32- and 64-bit frameworks, as well as share code between Android and Apple apps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/20/2014
VS "14" CTP 3 includes early build of next-generation Microsoft .NET Framework and ASP.NET, plus a slew of enhancements that include C++ productivity improvements.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/19/2014
There are two different techniques for training a neural network: batch and online. Understanding their similarities and differences is important in order to be able to create accurate prediction systems.
- By James McCaffrey
- 08/18/2014
This time, it's an issue with new Git projects.
The repair team says it's rolling back recent updates to mitigate the problem.
You want the responsiveness that asynchronous programming in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 provides, but also need your asynchronous methods to work with other code in your application. Here's how the Task object answers all of your problems.
The latest version includes both fixes and upgrades.
Ondrej Balas continues his series on refactoring code for dependency injection, looking at patterns and strategies for changing application behavior after it has already been compiled.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 08/11/2014
.NET vNext isn't here just yet, but Microsoft wants developers to move on to .NET Framework 4.5.2 as soon as possible, with support for versions 4 up to 4.5.1 ending mid-January 2016.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/11/2014
Extension methods provide a great way for extending a class functionality -- but it's interfaces that let you use those methods anywhere you want.
We often take syntax highlighting for granted -- it just makes code so much more readable that it's become hard to live without. I'll take a look at a little history behind it and some new developments that might make code coloring even more useful.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 08/07/2014
"Summer update" comes with improved URL support, message logging, and authentication.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/07/2014
In related news, also released is another CTP for an extension for developing apps with the Apache Cordova platform.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/06/2014
How to define common XAML resources to improve the consistency of your applications.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/06/2014