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You press F5 and, instead of launching your application, Visual Studio finds a syntax error. Skip the stupid question and go right to fixing your code.
05/08/2019
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With no help from Microsoft, your intrepid VSM editor seeks to answer reader questions about the big news that .NET 5 is coming next year to unify various .NET implementations in order "to target Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, tvOS, watchOS and WebAssembly and more."
05/07/2019
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Microsoft announced .NET Core 3.0 will arrive in September, after which the company is switching to one unified .NET platform, called .NET 5, which will debut in November 2020.
05/06/2019
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Microsoft kicked off its huge Build developer conference with the usual bevy of announcements, touching on everything from a new .NET Core 3.0 preview ahead of September general availability, to Visual Studio Online, the general availability of VS IntelliCode, ML.NET 1.0 for machine learning and much more.
05/06/2019
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The well-documented bond between Visual Studio Code and Python has been further epitomized in new remote development tooling just announced for Microsoft's popular, open source, cross-platform code editor.
05/03/2019
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Visual Studio Code, the increasingly popular programming tool that already tops some major surveys, is getting expanded remote development capabilities via a brand-new extension pack.
05/02/2019
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As a prelude to the big Build developer conference next week, Microsoft has announced a host of new development features, many focusing on the Azure cloud and, in particular, artificial intelligence development with machine learning.
05/02/2019
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Visual Studio Code tooling provided with the Java Extension Pack has been updated with support for Java 12, new code actions, new debugging features, Maven enhancements and more.
05/01/2019
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Blazor on the Server is coming with .NET Core Version 3.0 in the second half of 2019. Here's what Peter thinks of that (and he's not completely happy).
04/30/2019
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Microsoft has some best practices around handling exceptions. With respect, Peter disagrees with their recommendation.
04/26/2019
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Microsoft released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 2, with improvements to debugging, C++ development, extensibility, NuGet functionality and more.
04/26/2019
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When it comes to retrieving the object sent to you by a Web Service, there's an easy way to do it and a hard way to do it. The problem is that the easy way is hard to get.
04/25/2019
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Almost four years after the debut of Apache Spark, .NET developers are on track to more easily use the popular Big Data processing framework in C# and F# projects.
04/25/2019
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Eric Vogel kicks off his series on ASP.NET Core security by showing how to set up authentication to register, log in and log out a user account in an ASP.NET Core MVC application.
04/24/2019
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The latest monthly update to the Python extension for Visual Studio Code makes it easier for developers to keep track of variables and their data when working with the ever-popular programming language in the ever-popular open source code editor.
04/24/2019
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Visual Studio Code now does Blazor development thanks to updated Razor tooling support in a popular C# extension for the code editor.
04/23/2019
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On the same day we reported "the end of the experiment is in sight" for Microsoft's Blazor project, it did indeed graduate from experimental status to a preview of a new way to do Web UI with .NET languages like C#.
04/19/2019
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Microsoft's .NET Core 3.0 is out in a fourth preview as it nears general availability, with the exact release date to be revealed by the company at its Build developer conference in about three weeks.
04/19/2019