Remember Microsoft's MCP Exam Retake Offer? This is a bit different. Instead of a second shot, take several shots at a certification exam. And many developer exams are part of the offer.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/10/2016
Microsoft R and R Server features are accessible almost directly through the Visual Studio IDE, with the new R Tools for Visual Studio plugin.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/10/2016
The latest Web preview of the VSTS rounds up a number of new features -- Agile planning, testing, Git, release management, Office 365 integration, more -- that the Visual Studio Team will be refining over the next few months.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/09/2016
Microsoft's Scott Guthrie said that the company's RDBMS could be running on the Linux platform some time in 2017. He plans to preview a new SQL Server Stretch Database service at a New York event this week.
If you're creating an asynchronous application (and you should be) you'll be glad to know that .NET offers ways to share data that don't require you to lock up your application.
Reliability and performance improvements rule on this release candidate, and there are a bevy of new features being tested out with Team Foundation Server 2015 U2 RC as well.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/04/2016
It's iOS and Android, then all others, along with Windows Phone. But some reports believe Windows Phone is the real growth market, and developers should take heed since there's money to be made there.
Just in time for Build in San Francisco, Microsoft will make available a kit for developing for yet another extension of the Windows platform that will have you going all Johnny Mnemonic on your Visual Studio apps. You'll need to be a Windows Insider, though, before you can get your hand -- and face -- on one.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/03/2016
R is the perfect language for creating a variety of chi-square tests, which are used to perform statistical analyses of counts of data. Here's how, with some sample code.
- By James McCaffrey
- 03/02/2016
Xamarin this, Xamarin that. But not all cross-platform is Xamarin. Have you heard of one other option, like React Native?
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/01/2016
The Microsoft Band is one of the most sophisticated fitness and health trackers available today. In this article, Nick walks through building a Windows Phone app that can communicate with it.
- By Nick Randolph
- 03/01/2016
Predictably, Microsoft has pulled the plug on the Windows Bridge for Android, now that the company is absorbing Xamarin. Xamarin's cross-platform development capabilities can already be used to port Windows apps to the Android marketplace.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/29/2016
Jason Roberts' e-book on C# 6 gets to a rolling start. And it's free, so you can't argue about the price at all.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/25/2016
Web and application accessibility isn't just a nice thing to do. It makes your work available to a bigger world of customers ... and may be a legal requirement for some projects.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 02/25/2016
The retirement of the Insider Program means -- voila! -- the Insiders Build for Visual Studio Code developers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/23/2016