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By Michael Domingo
With a pack of updates that amount to minor fixes following the release of Visual Studio 2017 RC3 a week ago, the Visual Studio team is now set to launch a feature-complete version within a month's time.
02/09/2017
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By Michael Domingo
Microsoft offers a laundry list of developer-oriented features to get devs up to speed with the newest, feature-complete Windows 10 Creators Update slated for early 2017 release.
02/08/2017
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Your Xamarin Forms App needs one more little tweak, and that's to make it device-specific, so users don't freak out. Unlike the Apple tweak, the Android tweak takes a bit of work.
02/08/2017
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If you decide on using an Enum with enumerated values in your Entity Framework class, here are the tools you'll need to make it work. But an enumerated value shouldn't be your first choice.
02/06/2017
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Here are two ways to save some typing when defining anonymous objects. One only works in Visual Basic, though.
02/03/2017
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By Michael Domingo
Tizen is an open source app platform targeting mainly Samsung devices, from televisions, to phones, to wearables. Yep, there's a Visual Studio Tool for that, and it's on its second preview.
02/03/2017
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Code Focused
Welcome to the 21st century, C#, now that case blocks support a variety of pattern-matching formats.
02/02/2017
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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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By Michael Domingo
The third release candidate of the venerable, all-encompassing and integrated Microsoft developer platform has been re-released after being pulled for a short time due to reports of developer machines crashing due to an odd installation issue.
01/27/2017
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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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By Michael Domingo
A not-ready-for-production preview, which contains updates and additions to the Windows namespace, is available for testing to Windows Insiders members.
01/19/2017
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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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By Michael Domingo
Last VS Code update of 2016 has hot exit and a number of other code-focused enhancements and improvements.
01/10/2017
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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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By Terrence Dorsey
Whether you're building an application database or generating data access code, we've got a round-up of tools to make the job easier.
01/04/2017