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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
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If you're using Skip and Take in LINQ to page through your data, a tweak to your syntax can cut your response time by as much as 10 percent as you page through your data.
12/06/2016
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If you care about data typing and want to avoid null/undefined errors, there's a lot you're going to like in TypeScript 2.0. And, if you like creating general purpose functions that can work with a variety of classes, there's something here for you, too.
12/05/2016
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Last time, I created the app. This time, I take care of a few annoying but important issues with it, especially in the area of the user's experience with application connectivity.
12/01/2016
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By Jason Roberts
A .NET port of the Ruby library allows for experimental testing of code that's gone to production.
11/30/2016
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When you're testing an ASP.NET MVC controller (or, really, any class at all) you want to make sure the code that fails is the code you're testing. Moq provides a simple way to isolate the code you're testing and lets you generate test cases.
11/29/2016
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Code Focused
Pile on the exceptions, and .NET will have your back with the tools it provides at your disposal.
11/28/2016
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You might need multiple keystrokes to move your cursor from wherever it is back to the editor window...but it's the same key every time (and you don't have to touch your mouse).
11/18/2016
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Sometimes you want child objects retrieved with the parent object, and sometimes you don't. What you NEVER want is to retrieve child objects accidentally. Here's Peter's advice on how to get the best performance when loading child objects.
11/17/2016