JetBrains announced that it's developing a C# integrated development environment that works independently of the Visual Studio environment.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/14/2016
Developers (including you) benefit when you provide a string representation of your class. By implementing IFormattable, you can take control of this representation and provide some flexibility. Besides, if you don't provide one, the Microsoft .NET Framework will provide a useless one for you.
Also noteworthy: weird keyboard layout problem encountered by developers on OSX -- fixed.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/12/2016
Like a mobile force, Xamarin 4 awakens. So upgrade now, especially if you're a Visual Studio developer and building apps for iOS.
- By Wallace McClure
- 01/11/2016
With the Universal Windows Platform, developers can target a wide variety of devices with a single application, but it comes with performance ramifications. We look at ways to make those apps more efficient and highly performant.
- By Nick Randolph
- 01/08/2016
Incremental update version 14.0.2 of the Eclipse plugin supports Mars, mixed repository use in projects.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/07/2016
For this first in a series, Eric Vogel checks out the new IReadOnlyCollection<T> Stack<T> and Queue<T> implementations in .NET Framework 4.6.
You're a developer who's managed to create the killer app. You've also built a well-rounded team and marketing plan to push it. But wait -- is it what users want?
- By Wallace McClure
- 01/06/2016
It's a small step, but a duet of sender-side features are enabled in this preview that allow a more nuanced way of pushing out event-driven WebHooks to users.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/04/2016
Security risks will be a major concern for companies using some versions of .NET Framework and SQL Server after extended support ends some time this year.
Generic classes and functions are one way to create flexible, reusable classes and functions. But before you start creating your own generic functions, you should be clear on when they’re your best choice.
It's no small feat to be able to customize work items, right from the Web. The functionality is due to process inheritance, which is a function of Team Process Templates.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/22/2015
Learn to measure the performance of your apps and ensure a great UX.
- By Greg Shackles
- 12/18/2015
When you need to know when a file or folder appears, disappears or is renamed -- in fact, if almost anything at all happens in the file system -- you can have Windows notify your application so that you can take action.
C# developers who want to wring more meaningful info from large sets of data should get cozy with the statistical computing language known as R. Let's get familiar with R in this new series.
- By James McCaffrey
- 12/16/2015