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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.
04/17/2017
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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
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By Michael Domingo
Support for Windows 10 Creators Update SDK and Xamarin Workbooks, updates to the Redgate Data Tools, and a number of performance enhancements are good reasons for developers to take heed with this VS 2017 update.
04/05/2017
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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 start organizing your TypeScript code into focused files right now.
04/03/2017
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By Michael Domingo
Syncfusion Essential Studio 2017 adds bevy of new controls for charts, text, and provides more responsive menus. Bonus: It's all now .NET Standard-compliant.
03/31/2017
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By Michael Domingo
The Microsoft development teams responsible for Visual F# and TypeScript recently provided their respective communities with some insight into their development efforts moving forward, now that the Visual Studio 2017 release hubbub has cleared. The goal with the insights via two recent blog posts, it seems, is toward more transparency.
03/30/2017
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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