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In the move from the ageing, Windows-only .NET Framework to the new open source, cross-platform .NET Core framework, some technologies weren't invited along for the ride, but open source projects may be coming to the rescue.
06/10/2019
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After previously publishing developer guidance for porting "simple" desktop apps to the new .NET Core platform, Microsoft has just followed up with a two-part post on a more "complicated" project.
06/10/2019
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Progress announced an update to its .NET-centric Telerik line of development tools that features a new suite to accomodate the red-hot Blazor initiative, which lets coders use C# instead of JavaScript for Web projects.
06/07/2019
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Several new time-saving keystroke combinations were recently detailed by Kendra Havens, program manager for .NET and Visual Studio, in a Channel 9 video presentation. Here's a roundup of the new stuff, along with old favorites, and a list of other productivity resources.
06/06/2019
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Risking developer wrath, Microsoft has again changed the Visual Studio Code icon in the May 2019 edition, version 1.35.
06/05/2019
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Feature requests and reported problems are now exclusively on Developer Community, which features tabs for Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, .NET, C++, Azure DevOps and Azure DevOps Server (TFS).
06/05/2019
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If you want to add server-side Blazor to your existing ASP.NET Core applications, you can. There's not much to it, fortunately. In fact, there's probably more work involved in creating a View or Page that will play well with your component
06/04/2019
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The hottest NuGet extensions for the hottest ASP.NET Core project.
06/04/2019
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The Exception object has both a Message property and a ToString method and they return different results. Both are good, just not for the purposes that Microsoft suggests (at least, in Peter's opinion).
06/03/2019
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There's not a lot that's new in Views in ASP.NET Core, but here's one new feature that will make your Views more flexible.
05/31/2019
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Peter's beginning a self-improvement course in using regular expressions, at least when doing searches in Visual Studio. As part of achieving that goal, he's decided that the Find Files option is his new bestest friend.
05/30/2019
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Less than two weeks after the Release Candidate, Microsoft has shipped the final release of TypeScript 3.5, the increasingly popular programming language that improves upon JavaScript by allowing optional static typing.
05/30/2019
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Here are three different ways to dynamically build a string out of constant text and variable values.
05/29/2019
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New porting guidance targets two groups of .NET developers: those who want just the basics and those who want meatier details for more complex use cases.
05/28/2019
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Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core.
05/24/2019
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Microsoft shipped Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 with a host of new features and enhancements, led by an expansion of workloads that now support IntelliCode, the AI-assisted upgrade of IntelliSense.
05/23/2019
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Xamarin.Forms 4.0 is out, a major release featuring the new Shell, an application container providing basic, common UI features -- including troublesome navigation functionality -- to help developers get started more easily and quickly, addressing "hassle" reported in developer feedback.
05/23/2019
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Introduced by Microsoft, accepted as an OASIS standard, it's now being championed by a Microsoft software engineer as a useful tool in the company's new era of open source, cross-platform utility.
05/20/2019