There are lots of benefits to gathering information by opening a dialog box instead of sending your user to another page. Fortunately, jQuery and ASP.NET MVC make it easy to do (and you don't have to worry about offending pop-up blockers).
Final releases of VS 2015 Update 1, TFS Update 1 follow quickly after release candidates that were announced during Microsoft's Connect() event in November.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/03/2015
TypeScript has some "interesting" limitations when it comes to overloading functions. But it also offers you some options when you need more flexibility in declaring functions, including both optional parameters and infinite parameter lists.
With the Universal Windows Platform, you can now build apps that truly interact with the new digital assistant for Windows. In this article, Nick Randolph walks through using Cortana to launch and interact with your application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 12/01/2015
Microsoft's Jay Schmelzer described the current state of the developer group's open source efforts in Redmond at a Live! 360 Conference keynote.
Microsoft packages a handful of developer-related services into an Essentials-style pack, and submits Visual Studio Code to beta testing. Oh yeah, and it's also being open sourced.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/18/2015
New additions include the Mac agent for native iOS app development within the Visual Studio IDE, as well as a beta of Xamarin Insights and updates to Xamarin Forms and Xamarin Test Cloud.
Preview of new plugin from the developers of the Sencha Web Application Lifecyle Management Platform allows .NET developers to write JavaScript code as if it were native to Visual Studio.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/17/2015
The Visual Studio coding extension suite from JetBrains has a whole host of improvements, and includes a new build tool.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/02/2015
Now that you know how to create tag helpers, let's create a custom one that loads a bootstrap-select dropdown via a remote URI.
An introduction to the Chakra JavaScript engine and how it can be used within a Windows 10 app to execute JavaScript.
- By Nick Randolph
- 10/21/2015
Peter addresses reader's concerns by showing how to implement a read-only/immutable value object.
Functions in TypeScript aren't handled the way you'd expect, based on any other language (including JavaScript). Fortunately, because of the way TypeScript handles functions, you're protected from a common JavaScript error (in addition to getting better IntelliSense support and compile-time checking, of course).
A September update to the .NET Server SDK include automated OWIN setup and improved middleware authentication processes.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/24/2015
A number of developer tools have been in the works and released in recent weeks leading up to the release of Office 2016 today.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/22/2015