Functions in TypeScript aren't handled the way you'd expect, based on any other language (including JavaScript). Fortunately, because of the way TypeScript handles functions, you're protected from a common JavaScript error (in addition to getting better IntelliSense support and compile-time checking, of course).
A September update to the .NET Server SDK include automated OWIN setup and improved middleware authentication processes.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/24/2015
Nick Randolph pulls apart the lifecycle of a Windows 10 application and reveals what goes on programmatically when users launch, switch between and close Windows 10 apps.
- By Nick Randolph
- 09/23/2015
A number of developer tools have been in the works and released in recent weeks leading up to the release of Office 2016 today.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/22/2015
Readers suggest ways to build a powerful HtmlHelper that simplifies creating typical application Views. Along the way, Peter uses a workaround for extending an anonymous object with additional properties and shows how to extract values from a lambda expression in a View.
Preview version 0.8.0 adds TypeScript 1.6 support, improved debugging features, themes, and takes care of Windows setup bugaboos that have plagued some VSC users.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/18/2015
Sometimes you need to make platform-specific calls. That's where DependencyService comes in handy.
- By Wallace McClure
- 09/16/2015
TypeScript 1.6 update adds support for React and JSX, which allows developers to use JSX syntax and TypeScript code interchangeably.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/16/2015
If you're not careful, you'll replace your huge, lumbering unmaintainable enterprise applications with a web of applications that can't be changed without blowing each other up. But if you apply the same tools you use inside your applications to your application architecture, you can avoid that.
Command pattern helps to encapsulate a request as an object and lets you parameterize clients with queues, all while supporting undoable operations. I'll explain how to use command pattern using an example in which we create a list in SharePoint with Visual Studio.
- By Malin De Silva
- 09/11/2015
Neural network models can be created, saved and reused. Here's how.
- By James McCaffrey
- 09/10/2015
Microsoft makes significant progress with its Azure App Service by extending Node.js support by releasing a Node SDK for Azure Mobile Apps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/10/2015
Ease the pain of concurrent programming with the Actor Model and Akka.NET.
- By Jason Roberts
- 09/09/2015
Simplify development of your next project by taking advantage of these UI control collections.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 09/08/2015
Since March, Microsoft has had designs on taking the Microsoft Build Engine open source and cross-platform as it ports it to .NET Core in the coming months. Progress is in full swing now.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/07/2015