Finalized versions of Microsoft's venerable software technologies are now generally available, and for Visual Studio 2015 U3, it includes the resolution of some high memory consumption issues that bedeviled some larger VS customers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/27/2016
Microsoft Research is open sourcing the project to help extend the C language, while also aiming to make it more secure and reliable.
Like magic, tuples make the impossible possible. Yep, we're talking here about one little corner in the Standard Template Library that will make it simple to return multiple values from a single function, without "out" parameters -- and it has other uses, too.
- By Kate Gregory
- 06/22/2016
SpecFlow offers a number of binding styles for bridging business-readable tests with test-automation code.
- By Jason Roberts
- 06/21/2016
A preview of the extension for spinning up Azure development and test environments right from within Visual Studio Team Services is now no longer a preview.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/21/2016
Here's another way to make applications more scalable and more responsive to the user: store some application data on the user's computer.
A big user request, tab support, is developed enough that it's now available in preview form for those working with the VSC Insiders Release.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/16/2016
It's not quite like C# or Python, but the R language's object-oriented programming capabilities are getting better with each iteration. Let's take a look at what .NET developers are able do now with OOP in R6.
- By James McCaffrey
- 06/16/2016
At Visual Studio Live! in Boston, Microsoft's senior program manager in the Developer Outreach Group showcases a number of features that will move .NET into a broader, more cross-platform-friendly future. Also, Fritz says to expect .NET on June 27.
That "other" cloud company is a popular option due to the breadth of tools and capabilities. So, it only makes sense that there are a number of Windows developer tools available for those who want to hop on the AWS cloud.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 06/14/2016
The cross-platform solutions provider that was acquired by Microsoft earlier this year released updates to its tools at the dotNetConf last week.
In any real-world business, updating data isn't simple and changing the rows in the table is just the start of a complex set of processes. Fortunately, you can break those updates down into a bunch of simple processes that can be easily extended.
Updates to TACO, AppInsight and HockeyApp are features of this release along with stability, performance, and bug fixes.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/09/2016
As developers churn through coding the next versions of .NET Core and other key Microsoft technologies, the company offers new bounties on bugs. Program runs to September.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/09/2016
Null pointer exceptions can get downright annoying, so who needs that?
- By Kate Gregory
- 06/08/2016