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Find the patterns in your data sets using these Clustering.R script tricks.
02/01/2017
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A roundup of a few more features: deprecated any type, literal datatypes, read-only properties, more!
01/30/2017
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You want to keep an object around only as long as you have memory available, do ya? Then you need the WeakReference class.
01/27/2017
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By Jason Roberts
Marten is PostgreSQL-based, so take advantage of relational features where it makes sense. Here's an example.
01/24/2017
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Peter starts off with a perfectly good solution to a problem but then complicates the problem . . . and ends up moving to a different design pattern. While on that journey he has some best practices around designing Data Transfer Objects.
01/23/2017
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In-Depth
String functions, integer functions ... booorrring! Tuples in C# 7.0 -- let's explore what makes them infinitely more exciting.
01/18/2017
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Chatbots are the new mobile application. In this article, Nick demonstrates how you can integrate a bot right into your Universal Windows Platform app via the Microsoft Bot Framework Direct Line API.
01/17/2017
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As a company's problems continue to become more complicated, your code will become more complicated. Peter shows how refactoring code can lead you to better designs.
01/16/2017
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Peter gets an improved tip from one reader and some more tips from another, all designed to navigate Visual Studio faster.
01/13/2017
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By Greg Shackles
Let's break away from C# somewhat and learn how F# is a great fit for crafting mobile applications.
01/12/2017
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Code Focused
Both are .NET Framework-based, but they don't seem to be speaking the same language.
01/11/2017
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The S3 OOP model is still widely used, so let's use write S3-style OOP code via the R language.
01/10/2017
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Sometimes life is like playing Whack-a-Mole: You write some code that solves a problem, and then someone comes along and makes the problem harder. Here's how to continuously integrate new solutions without having to rewrite your old solutions (much).
01/09/2017
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The latest version of TypeScript provides developers with tools to create base classes and class hierarchies just like the other object-oriented languages.
01/05/2017
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Code Focused
Let's take a quick side trip and see what information we can glean from the .NET assembly.
01/03/2017
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You can turn on logging for your Entity Framework code with a single line. Configuring it to write to a file takes only a little bit more effort.
01/02/2017
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I don't believe in coding design tools. I've been programming for more than 30 years now (40 years if you go back to my first class in programming). I think in code. Code is my design language and procrastination is my friend.
12/27/2016
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When you hit a breakpoint in Visual Studio, everything stops. If you'd rather other processes keep running, you can enable that.
12/20/2016
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There's more (and some less) in Entity Framework Core compared to Entity Framework 6, at least in version 1.0. While you can move to Entity Framework Core now, it might be too early for you.
12/19/2016
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Saving and retrieving data is a fundamental part of all but the simplest of applications. In this article, Nick walks through getting started using Entity Framework with SQLite to persist application data.
12/15/2016
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Code Focused
Hashwords can use a pinch of salt for added security. There's a .NET class for that.
12/15/2016
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It's relatively simple to make use of the multi-window mode now that Xamarin supports it. Here's how.
12/14/2016
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If you run an automated test and your test fails then you want to know that it's your fault -- not a problem in someone else's code or the result of a change in your test data. Moq lets you do that in two lines of code, even if your code uses the ASP.NET Session object.
12/13/2016
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Every once in a while you'll need to use the LINQ Join to get the data you want.
12/12/2016
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I predict you'll find this logistic regression example with R to be helpful for gleaning useful information from common binary classification problems.
12/07/2016