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Code Focused
While Visual Basic is a bit more forgiving with data conversions, you'll need to jump through some hoops to do similar conversions in C#.
03/29/2017
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When your objects get sufficiently complicated to create, it's time to simplify your life by moving to the Builder pattern. The Builder pattern is not only a great pattern for creating complicated objects, it supports your application's further evolution.
03/28/2017
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By Michael Domingo
Azure Service Fabric team hopes to spur improvements to Service Fabric .NET SDK through the open source community. ASF and the SDK have also recently been updated.
03/27/2017
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By Michael Domingo
It's at 1.0, with a version supporting Visual Studio 2017 to follow some time in May.
03/24/2017
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By Michael Domingo
Mobilize.net now has support for Visual Studio 2017 for users of its VB-to-.NET code migration tool.
03/24/2017
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If you don't use a section in a View, then you'll get an error. But you may not find out until it's too late.
03/24/2017
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By Michael Domingo
Visual Studio Code's February Build is now available, and it sports quite a few updates having to do with the workbench and debugging features, and includes a preview of a new code view.
03/23/2017
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Similar to the UITableView in iOS and ListView in Android, the XF version can be used to cache images for use in other locations of an application.
03/22/2017
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The Entity Framework DbEntityEntry object lets you do all sorts of things you probably didn't think were possible, including getting the latest data from the database (without losing your current data) and invoking the .NET Framework validation subsystem.
03/20/2017
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In-Depth
By Lafe Low
No longer a pipe dream, cross-platform coding has been made fairly straightforward and nearly ordinary with tools from Xamarin and others. At VSLive!, Microsoft's James Montemagno demonstrated the ease with which cross-platform apps can be delivered without venturing too far from the C# space.
03/16/2017
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Let's use this classical statistics technique -- and some R, of course -- to get to some of the latent variables hiding in your data.
03/16/2017
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By Michael Domingo
Nifty, printable info graphic shows everything new and updated in the latest developer suite.
03/15/2017
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By Michael Domingo
.NET developers now have another option for the streamlined creation of cloud apps, now that Google App Engine has announced support for the Microsoft developer stack.
03/14/2017
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If you're not using the Entity Framework DbCollectionEntry object when working with an entity class's related objects, then your application is running too slow. Using DbCollectionEntry lets you asynchronously retrieve related objects and get only the objects you want.
03/13/2017
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By Michael Domingo
Visual Studio Team Services team are in the midst of rolling out yet another sprint, this one with additional Delivery plans features, a more optimized mobile work item experience, and some other Team features.
03/09/2017
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By Michael Domingo
No secrets here, as features and updates of the suite have been portioned out in public testing in the months and weeks leading up to the launch. So much of what's new in this morning's announcements has to do with the current state of several VS iterations, including the Mac and Mobile Center previews, as well as some new benefits.
03/07/2017
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By Michael Domingo
With Visual Studio 2017 making its debut next week, a number of software and services that comprise its tooling ecosystem have already embedded support for the development platform.
03/02/2017
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Entity Framework Core doesn't have lazy loading (at least, not yet). But you can fake it by using explicit loading, though it doesn't work quite the way you might want. In fact, it's probably a good idea to use this in Entity Framework 6.
03/02/2017
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If you want to ensure that the right code is loaded at the right time (and only loaded when you need it), you can use TypeScript code to organize your code into modules. As a side benefit, managing your script tags will get considerably easier.
02/28/2017
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In-Depth
Imagine platform-neutral, language-agnostic tools for writing code. Awesome, yes, but using tools like Visual Studio Code to compose your programmatic masterpiece will require a bit of rethinking.
02/28/2017
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In-Depth
By Lee Richardson
Writing Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that rely on inter-process communication is actually easy. Debugging and making them fault-tolerant is the tricky part, but it can be done with the AppServiceConnection for UWP and IoT Apps.
02/27/2017
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Some questions can only be answered by organizing your data into groups and then finding groups that contain particular members or have particular properties.
02/24/2017
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Complex queries can be solved with a combination of simpler LINQ queries, anonymous objects and the Group/By/Into clauses. Using Group/By/Into will also give you the best possible performance for those complex queries.
02/20/2017
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By Jason Roberts
Here's a trick to have Marten automatically deserialize JSON data only when you want it to.
02/16/2017
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By Michael Domingo
Version 1.9 of the online code editor sports a new look and some new tools to get developers up to speed quickly, including an Interactive Playground to test-drive some of the news features.
02/15/2017