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Windows 10 Mobile Support Ends in December

Microsoft confirmed the official demise of its mobile initiative will be Dec. 10, 2019, when support ends for Windows 10 Mobile, the failed challenger to iOS and Android. 01/22/2019
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Cloud Explorer (VS 2017 Azure Workload) Gets IoT Update

The Cloud Explorer tool installed automatically with Azure Workloads in Visual Studio 2017 now sports additional functionality for interacting with the Azure IoT Hub. 01/18/2019
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Tool Converts Visual Studio IDE Code Snippets for VS Code Editor

Developer Rick Strahl, tired of the cumbersome process of converting his many Visual Studio IDE code snippets into formats that can be used in the Visual Studio Code editor and the JetBrains Rider IDE, has created a tool to automate the process. 01/16/2019
The Data Science Lab

Self-Organizing Maps Using Python

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses a full project code sample and screenshots to detail how to use Python to work with self-organizing maps (SOM), which let you investigate the structure of a set of data. 01/15/2019
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GitHub Tool Does Pull Requests from Visual Studio Code

GitHub highlighted improvements to its Visual Studio Code extension that lets developers manage pull requests from the open source code repository with a few clicks from within the code editor. 01/15/2019
Practical .NET

Working with Session in ASP.NET MVC Core (or: Why You Can't Migrate)

Here's everything you need to write code for the Session object in ASP.NET Core -- including why you can't expect to migrate your existing ASP.NET MVC application to ASP.NET MVC Core (though Peter has some suggestions on easing that pain). 01/14/2019
Extending the ASP.NET Core Processing Pipeline

Amazingly, at least one thing is easier in ASP.NET Core than it is in ASP.NET: Adding your own functionality to the ASP.NET Core processing pipeline. 01/11/2019
Bundling Scripts in ASP.NET Core

You can still bundle scripts to save download time but, in ASP.NET MVC Core, it's more about configuration than code. 01/10/2019
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ML.NET Update for Machine Learning Comes with New Visual Studio Templates

Microsoft today released an update to its ML.NET framework that includes new Visual Studio templates to help developers code their machine learning projects. 01/10/2019
When the Watch Window in Visual Studio Doesn't Update

It's not always obvious, but sometimes the Watch window isn't always showing you the latest data. Here's how to tell and what you can do about it (sort of). 01/09/2019
Lazy Loading in Entity Framework Core

Good news for .NET Core developers: There's a package that gives Entity Framework Core the lazy loading capabilities that your existing applications may be using. Or may not be using -- you might not know, which is the real problem. 01/08/2019
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Will Flutter Become a Xamarin Option?

An open source GitHub project championed by a handful of developers seeks to add Google's new Flutter mobile UI framework as an option for creating native mobile apps in the Xamarin framework. 01/08/2019
Practical .NET

Creating Web Pages with Blazor: The Basics

If you know how to create an ASP.NET MVC View, you know a great deal about how to create pages in Blazor. But, by packaging up pages as Blazor Components, you can use (and re-use) those pages more like objects. 01/07/2019
Practical .NET

Finding Your Objects in ASP.NET Core

Central to ASP.NET Core is the collection of objects that give you access to ASP.NET Core functionality. Here's how to access it, how to add to it and an example of how to use this technology with the "difficult" cases. 01/04/2019