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Cumbersome mobile app development using individual languages for each platform is giving way to multiplatform coding -- at which Visual Studio tooling is adept -- according to TIOBE, which tracks language popularity.
10/17/2017
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Perhaps answering the tabs-vs.-spaces indentation question forever, a developer has used Google's BigQuery analytics tool to investigate all things related to the C# programming language in GitHub's vast trove of open source code projects.
10/16/2017
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Here’s a look -- with code samples -- at two series of updates that will improve the feature set and, most important, performance of Microsoft’s cross-platform UI solution.
10/10/2017
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There’s a potential security exploit that ASP.NET MVC leaves you open to. However, in Peter’s opinion, all the proposed solutions miss the point.
10/03/2017
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With help from more than 20 open source community developers, a stable release of Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0 is out, introducing several new features and supporting .NET Standard 2.0 for consistent API usage.
09/29/2017
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According to Microsoft, community developers are driving changes to its flagship IDE, including a host of improvements in the just-announced second preview of Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.4.
09/13/2017
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In announcing Windows Template Studio 1.3, Microsoft hinted that work has begun to support Visual Basic programming in the wizard-driven dev tool for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps.
09/13/2017
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Microsoft's Xamarin unit announced a new certification program for mobile professionals, offering a badge below the level of its existing cert.
08/29/2017
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Once again, Mr. Xamarin comes to Visual Studio Live! to discuss cross-platform development.
08/28/2017
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"If you've ever used VSTS/TFS Code Search, you've probably loved it, it felt like this was the way code searching should be. Then you did a code search in Visual Studio, and were reminded of the painful past...."
08/25/2017
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By Greg Shackles
From performance improvements to new platforms, here’s a look at what’s coming down the road for Xamarin.Forms developers.
08/10/2017
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Code Focused
Learn how providing information in available HTTP header elements can help make interactions between unrelated systems straightforward and meaningful.
08/08/2017
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The 26-year-old Visual Basic programming language just won't go away, as Microsoft just announced plans to bring its IDE back to the Office for Mac environment.
08/07/2017
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While mostly known for its use in Linux-based development, the versatile curl tool for transferring data over HTTPS can be a nifty timesaver when using Visual Studio Code on Windows.
07/31/2017
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Code Focused
Squash the dangers lurking in your SQL queries by setting parameters by way of parameterized queries.
07/27/2017
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Playing around with Apple's Core Image imaging technology, using some simple C# code to perform facial recognition and apply filters to photos.
07/26/2017
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By Terrence Dorsey
Here’s a roundup of the newest tools and extensions available for the new Visual Studio 2017 release.
07/25/2017
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By Michael Domingo
It's a programming language darling of those working in the data science/machine learning space, which might explain why Python takes the top spot in a recent IEEE survey. Plus: .NET Insight Podicast 11 explores coding camps.
07/24/2017
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In-Depth
By
Joseph Fultz, Darren Brust
Part 2: Now that we've nailed down the serverless compute concepts, we'll use a handful of online tools to develop Azure Functions.
07/21/2017
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James McCaffrey uses cross entropy error via Python to train a neural network model for predicting a species of iris flower.
07/20/2017
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In-Depth
By
Joseph Fultz, Darren Brust
The cloud has enabled some incredible innovation, like serverless compute, which is transforming the way we build applications for the cloud. We dive into serverless concepts and explore how they are supported by Azure Functions.
07/17/2017
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Developers working in the Amazon Web Services realm who have requested .NET Core support in some of the AWS coding tools got their wishes granted.
07/13/2017
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By Michael Domingo
Developers who prefer VSC will find a slew of new change in the June release, including some enhancements that will make working with the Integrated Terminal more flexible. There are also a few changes to how VSC handles tasks.
07/12/2017
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Get Visual Studio to be more helpful when you're working with HTML.
07/07/2017
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By Michael Domingo
It's the third preview for VS 2017 15.3, which sports mostly fit-and-finish improvements of many user-reported issues, and second preview for the .NET/ASP.NET/Entity Framework Core 2.0 trio.
06/29/2017