Null pointer exceptions can get downright annoying, so who needs that?
- By Kate Gregory
- 06/08/2016
The MSDN blogs can't contain all the information that's being produced on the various Microsoft developer tools and technologies.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/08/2016
The CQRS pattern separates updates from queries, allowing you to create the best process for each of those activities. Effectively, CQRS codifies the standard practice for ASP.NET MVC developers: Here are some strategies for implementing that pattern and improving your application's performance.
Azure Test Drives gives developers the ability to test out apps in the cloud without any commitment whatsoever.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/01/2016
Case matters when moving from one language to another and, often, variable naming conflicts can be as simple as that.
If you ever need to work with all of the properties in some object, you can use GetType and GetProperties to retrieve the object's PropertyInfo objects. After that you can do what you want. Here's an extension method that sets all those properties to their defaults, for example.
Online book from C++ expert Andrey Karpov aims to explain away the myths of C++ programming by way of example.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/26/2016
In part 4 of this series on the C++ Core Guidelines, Kate Gregory reminds you of an oddity in C++ when it comes to initializing member variables, and shows you a best practice that will make sure this oddity never hurts you.
- By Kate Gregory
- 05/25/2016
A belated 25th birthday to Visual Basic. Yes, 25 years ago, this language transformed the Windows app market in ways even Microsoft could not have imagined.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/24/2016
Creating a form with TypeScript, React and JSX lets you generate the HTML for your form dynamically, at runtime, and on the user's computer. Here's how to integrate a data- driven form into ASP.NET MVC.
Developers will always look to customize everything, and keyboards aren't out of bounds. Here's how to customize the iOS keyboard that pops up in your mobile apps to address any shortcomings.
- By Wallace McClure
- 05/18/2016
Data retrieval and updates are very different activities so the CQRS pattern says that the smart thing to do is treat them differently. Here's a variety of solutions for the retrieval side in an ASP.NET MVC application.
When working with TypeScript it's not unusual to need a class that matches an already existing server-side class written in C#. Here's one way to get from C# to TypeScript by doing what you normally do.
Now that you know how to communicate with the Band apps, here's another twist. Let's get interactive.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/12/2016
In part 3 of this series on the C++ Core Guidelines, we explore constructors and why, rather than writing a default constructor, you should use in-class member initializers, a feature added in C++ 11.
- By Kate Gregory
- 05/11/2016
You can't make a complicated problem simple. But, by leveraging the right tools in your language (and the Visitor pattern) you can ensure that your code doesn't get as complicated as your problem.
New to this type of analysis? It's a classic statistics technique that is still useful. Here's a technique for doing a one-way ANOVA using R.
- By James McCaffrey
- 05/04/2016
Leveraging the right combination of object-oriented tools can keep your code simple, even as the problems you solve get more complicated.
Microsoft Azure has become one of the top cloud computing environments and we've got 14 essential tools for integrating Azure right into your development environment.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 05/02/2016
Add pressure-based interactions in your apps in just a few minutes.
- By Greg Shackles
- 04/27/2016