When classes are more structure than you need, tuples let you specify simple type-safe aggregates of other data types. They'll also let you create a dictionary collection…but it won't be type-safe.
There's an extra day this year. What you do as a .NET developer in just that one day can shape the future of your development for many years to come.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/22/2016
Developers working toward SharePoint 2013 and Windows Store-related exams and certifications might need to step up exam-taking efforts, as exams are set to retire in September.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/18/2016
Pictures are worth a thousand words, and some can be storage-hungry, which can be bad for mobile apps and sites. Here's a trick for slimming them down.
- By Wallace McClure
- 02/18/2016
The basic functionality of the BlockingCollection makes creating asynchronous applications easy to do. But you need to use some of the BlockingCollection's other tools to create applications that handle typical real-world problems.
We looked at the basic features of functional programming with Visual F#. In this second part, we take it a bit farther and look at creating anonymous functions, pattern matching, and other features of F#.
- By Arnaldo Pérez Castaño
- 02/16/2016
The company has been putting a year's worth of work porting its open source Web database management system to the Windows platform.
ASP.NET Identity is a simple but robust framework allowing you to easily inject custom authentication logic into your applications.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 02/15/2016
The functional programming paradigm, which has been around for decades, has never gone out of style. In this two-part series, we look at Microsoft's implementation, Visual F#.
- By Arnaldo Pérez Castaño
- 02/10/2016
ServiceStack moves to a complete Web application framework with support for Razor forms.
- By Patrick Steele
- 02/10/2016
The death of Windows Phone, well, it looks like no exaggeration for now. It doesn't mean you're dead as a Windows Phone developer.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/09/2016
Version 2.2 fixes a few integration issues that have been bewitching Unity game developers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/09/2016
When your goal is 99.999-percent uptime, there's a small crack in the window for downtime. That happened with Visual Studio Team Services last week. And it happened within a span of two days.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/09/2016
Dividing your application up into simple processes will make it easier to maintain and extend. Using BlockingCollection to communicate between those processes will let you make those processes run asynchronously.
Visual Studio developers who are part of the Essentials Program now have access to more than $300-worth of Azure credits over a year, as well as the addition of mobile development courses from Xamarin University.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/04/2016