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
From Visual Studio Live!: Microsoft's Xamarin guy James Montemagno described the combination of C# and Xamarin as the perfect mobile platform.
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
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 second preview of the forthcoming on-premises version of Azure highlights "infrastructure management technologies."
If the data you work with is complex and hard to understand, it's easy to get stuck on them when debugging. Add helper variables to make data much simpler to use and comprehend.
- By Bartlomiej Filipek
- 09/28/2016
From Microsoft Ignite: Azure now in Germany, four other areas. Plus: Bevy of Azure announcements include more security controls in the cloud, improved monitoring capabilities.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/28/2016
The goal of .NET Standard is for "one library to rule them all," or more simply, one library of APIs that can be used across a number of platforms without much afterthought. The .NET team lets us in on their plans in the near future.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/27/2016
Integrating lambda expressions into your methods is easy. The trick is in recognizing when to use them. And that means understanding when the strategy and factory method patterns are going to make your applications better.
From Microsoft Ignite: The partnership that kicked off between the two companies two years ago takes another leap forward into the cloud in a big way.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/26/2016
You might be surprised how easy it was to port this NoSQL database for .NET to the Python language.
- By Idan Haim Shalom
- 09/23/2016
Each language treats case clauses differently, but there's a way you can make them less boring in C#.
It appears to be an incremental update, but the new features make all the difference when it comes to speed.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/21/2016
Here's another area where the two languages differ.
The goal of one tool for every platform isn't quite a reality yet, but you can get close. Here's what you can accomplish so far with Xamarin tools.
- By Wallace McClure
- 09/20/2016