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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
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Normally, you don’t care about first-chance exceptions -- it's only when something becomes a second-chance exception that you start to pay attention. But when you do care about all the exceptions, here’s how to work with them both in Visual Studio and in your code.
05/22/2017
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In-Depth
By Lafe Low
Microsoft's developers have been churning through code and delivering a dizzying array of tools and services. But there's still more to come this year, as Microsoft's Jeffrey T. Fritz explained at Visual Studio Live! this week.
05/18/2017
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In-Depth
By Lafe Low
Microsoft's Matt Nunn provides a whirlwind tour of the current state of tools and services that Microsoft has to offer developers in this VSLive! Austin keynote.
05/17/2017
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By Terrence Dorsey
Another dozen of the latest tools and extensions available for Visual Studio 2015 and the recently released Visual Studio 2017. This time, it's build/test/ship tools.
05/17/2017
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By Michael Domingo
Sensepost says it has discovered a method for hackers to compromise Microsoft Outlook by way of a Visual Basic-embedded shell. The catch: It requires a feat of social engineering to pull it off.
05/17/2017
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By Jason Roberts
Last time I looked at the basics of triggers. Let's look at creating an HTTP-triggered function for displaying a greeting based on a target audience.
05/16/2017
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The OutputCache attribute is a great way to improve both response time and scaleability, except there are many times when you can’t use it. Here’s how to leverage the HtmlHelper Action method to handle those exceptions.
05/12/2017
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By Terrence Dorsey
Let's catch up with the latest tools and extensions available for Visual Studio 2015 and the recently released Visual Studio 2017.
05/10/2017
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By Greg Shackles
Learn how Mobile Center helps you easily develop, build, test, distribute, and monitor your mobile apps.
05/09/2017
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Here’s how to add AngularJS to an ASP.NET MVC application in Visual Studio 2015.
05/03/2017
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Let's explore factor analysis again, this time using the R ability to tap into OOP, but we won't use the RC model.
05/02/2017
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By Jason Roberts
It's possible to hook into document store events to monitor (and even modify) behavior.
05/01/2017
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Here's the best performing option when you're retrieving the objects at the end of an entity class's navigation property, either when you only want some of the objects or when you only want them some of the time.
04/28/2017
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By Michael Domingo
New Help Viewer option allows Microsoft books and resources for the newest VS version to be available and updated with more recent and timely information. Plus: MSDN Editor-in-Chief Michael Desmond offers his Microsoft Build insights on this week's .NET Insight Podcast.
04/28/2017
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In-Depth
Visual Studio is all about making the developer coding experience more streamlined, allowing you to get to elements of the IDE that matter to you most. Customizing the Start Page is, well, a good start.
04/27/2017
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If you haven’t used the .NET Framework Contract tools to help guarantee code quality, it’s worthwhile to consider integrating them into your work. If you figured that Contracts were all hype, it may be time to see how they could be genuinely useful.
04/25/2017
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In-Depth
By William L. Bain
Huge volumes of data need near-supercomputer power to process and analyze it all. You can get there with the .NET Task Parallel Library.
04/20/2017
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By Michael Domingo
There's no rest for Windows developers, as one of the more interesting parts of the next Windows 10 release that's accessible by insiders, Build 16176 for PC, is improved support for Windows Subsystem for Linux.
04/18/2017
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By Michael Domingo
The Visual Studio Code page on GitHub hosts a slew of tips, and CodePlex will be shutting down later this year. Bonus: Inaugural .NET Insight Podcast!
04/14/2017
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By Jason Roberts
Azure Functions get you beyond the traditional client/server approach to app creation, right into the cloud. Let’s first look at triggers.
04/12/2017
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If you have a process that needs to be performed -- but with variations -- then implementing the Template Method pattern will give you simpler, more extensible code. You’ll also recognize this pattern from all the times you work with it in the .NET Framework.
04/10/2017
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Code Focused
The custom formatters in the .NET Framework provide a more seamless way to mix traditional and custom formatting situations.
04/05/2017