News
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.
09/29/2016
In-Depth
A case study in swift .NET application debugging using a variety of free tools that can help keep a client happy.
09/29/2016
News
A second preview of the forthcoming on-premises version of Azure highlights "infrastructure management technologies."
09/28/2016
News
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.
09/28/2016
Code Focused
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.
09/28/2016
Practical .NET
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.
09/27/2016
News
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.
09/27/2016
News
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.
09/26/2016
If you have areas in your application where you often put breakpoints, it might be worthwhile to give them names so that you can manage them in the Breakpoints window.
09/26/2016
In-Depth
You might be surprised how easy it was to port this NoSQL database for .NET to the Python language.
09/23/2016
Code Focused
Here's another area where the two languages differ.
09/21/2016
News
It appears to be an incremental update, but the new features make all the difference when it comes to speed.
09/21/2016
Code Focused
Each language treats case clauses differently, but there's a way you can make them less boring in C#.
09/21/2016
Visual Studio Toolbox
The tools and extensions keep on coming, so here's another round-up of new releases. You keep building extensions, we'll keep sharing them with the Visual Studio community.
09/20/2016
Cross-Platform C#
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.
09/20/2016