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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
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You like the idea of an AJAX application, but would rather not write the JavaScript yourself. You're in luck: ASP.NET MVC provides two tools that write the client-side code for you. And these tools even make sense if you’re comfortable with writing your own JavaScript.
06/28/2017
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By Michael Domingo
Dynamic import expressions, enhanced string enums, and improved generics checking are just a few of the features of this point release of the JavaScript superset.
06/27/2017
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In-Depth
By Tomáš Herceg
You don't need to write tons of JavaScript code to create a JavaScript-friendly MVVM app. Let DotVVM can take over. Here's a basic tutorial for developing with it.
06/27/2017
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At the company's Azure OpenDev online presentation, Microsoft and its open source partners showcased a number of tools and resources meant to provide developers a leg up on developing for the "intelligent cloud & an intelligent edge."
06/26/2017
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Code Focused
C# finally gets the BASIC GOSUB feature through local functions, but local functions take that GOSUB-like capability up a few notches.
06/26/2017
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By Michael Domingo
Microsoft's second release of its open source deep learning framework earlier this month adds support for Java bindings, Spark, and Keras.
06/23/2017
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Sensibly, ASP.NET MVC 5 prevents users from entering HTML or Script tags into your page's textboxes, protecting you from a wide variety of hacks. However, for those rare occasions when you do need to let the user enter tags, here's how to do it.
06/22/2017
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Wally shows you how to use Xamarin.iOS to create a pedometer app for a Fitbit that employs the CoreMotion Framework.
06/20/2017
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You don't have to resort to writing C++ to work with popular machine learning libraries such as Microsoft's CNTK and Google's TensorFlow. Instead, we'll use some Python and NumPy to tackle the task of training neural networks.
06/15/2017
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By Michael Domingo
Long live the programming language that is still running strong well into the second half of its third decade. What might help it is a provision for VB-based .NET Core and .NET Standard libraries in an upcoming VS 2017 release.
06/13/2017
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Consuming services is something every application needs to do. In this article, Nick demonstrates how to document a REST service using Swagger in order to make it easy to consume from a Universal Windows Application.
06/12/2017
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By Michael Domingo
There have been some significant changes to Visual Studio Code from March to now; with the May 2017 Build, specific settings that were in preview -- editor drag and drop, minimaps, to name a few -- are now enabled by default.
06/09/2017
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Peter doesn't like them, but that doesn't mean you have to hate 'em, too -- here's how to add a listbox or dropdown list to your View that lets users select multiple items.
06/09/2017
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By Jason Roberts
Azure Functions can be used to trigger event-driven Webhooks. Here’s how.
06/08/2017
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By Terrence Dorsey
Mads has written dozens of essential Visual Studio extensions. Terrence Dorsey sat down to talk about his background, development process and favorite extensions.
06/06/2017
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Code Focused
Lots of searching through lots of data means potential app performance degradation. Hash codes can speed things up.
06/01/2017
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By Michael Domingo
C# developers can dive into the basics of Xamarin.Forms, and go beyond with customizing them, learning how to target game development for various mobile platforms, and integrate it with Azure Machine Learning to build "smart" apps. It's all free in this once-weekly webinar series.
05/30/2017
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With Python and NumPy getting lots of exposure lately, I'll show how to use those tools to build a simple feed-forward neural network.
05/24/2017
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By Michael Domingo
Demo-heavy sessions from Build will be circling the globe at select international cities. Also, this week's .NET Insight Podcast features excerpts from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's Build keynote, in which he gives some weight to the sheer amount of data that represents developer opportunity for decades to come.
05/22/2017