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Last time, I created the app. This time, I take care of a few annoying but important issues with it, especially in the area of the user's experience with application connectivity.
12/01/2016
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By Jason Roberts
A .NET port of the Ruby library allows for experimental testing of code that's gone to production.
11/30/2016
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By Michael Domingo
Two new tools for cross-platform developers provide insight into app performance and allow for real-time XAML previews.
11/29/2016
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When you're testing an ASP.NET MVC controller (or, really, any class at all) you want to make sure the code that fails is the code you're testing. Moq provides a simple way to isolate the code you're testing and lets you generate test cases.
11/29/2016
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Code Focused
Pile on the exceptions, and .NET will have your back with the tools it provides at your disposal.
11/28/2016
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By Michael Domingo
The Visual Studio 2017 RC from a week ago introduced speedier build and edit-debug tools for TACO, and an improved IDE for Unity game devs.
11/23/2016
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You might need multiple keystrokes to move your cursor from wherever it is back to the editor window...but it's the same key every time (and you don't have to touch your mouse).
11/18/2016
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By Michael Domingo
The ability to embrace U-SQL jobs via authoring, scripting, extensibility via the VSCode environment and using C# is the key to this tooling preview.
11/17/2016
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Sometimes you want child objects retrieved with the parent object, and sometimes you don't. What you NEVER want is to retrieve child objects accidentally. Here's Peter's advice on how to get the best performance when loading child objects.
11/17/2016
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By Michael Domingo
The new name for what we've been calling Visual Studio '15' is actually the smaller of several big news items to come out of today's Microsoft Connect(); event oline. Among the bigger reveals is the preview of a Mac-native version of Visual Studio.
11/16/2016
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Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie kicked off the Connect(); conference with an action-packed keynote where he revealed significant tooling improvements impacting mobile app development, containerized app dev, cross-platform mobile DevOps and serverless compute architectures, and more.
11/16/2016
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In-Depth
By Lafe Low
In this Q&A, highly regarded developer and educator Scott Allen shares his thoughts on coding with C#.
11/15/2016
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Code Focused
The alternative to that simple error-handling combo is the Try...Catch, but it's not as simple as wrapping up your code with it.
11/15/2016
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Script bundling speeds up your application by reducing the time it takes to download all of your JavaScript code. But you'll need another object to get your files added to the page in the order you want.
11/14/2016
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By Michael Domingo
It's like a better version of TypeScript 2.0, only this incremental update adds "smarter" inference and a bevy of other improvements.
11/11/2016
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By Michael Domingo
Visual Studio Team Services is at Sprint 108 this week, and it might seem like a lightweight with mainly fixes, but it does pack quite a few new features -- integrating Team-based collaboration features, build and replace enhancements, Docker support -- to be worthy of attention.
11/10/2016
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The R language simplifies the creation of neural network classifiers with an add-on that lays all the groundwork.
11/10/2016
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In test-driven development, you have to decide how you'll divide your test methods between your test classes. The best solution is the one that requires the least effort on your part and implements the Single Responsibility Principle for tests.
11/09/2016
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There are two attributes you can put on your entity class properties: one is a convenience, the other is essential, and both are required when the primary key for a table consists of two columns.
11/07/2016
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With Apple's update to its phone OS, we look at the support that Xamarin has for it by building a simple speech app.
11/07/2016
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By Michael Domingo
Just as the Visual Studio team started rolling out the October 2016 Build version 1.7 this week, the team did an about-face with an incremental "recovery build" update that disables JavaScript IntelliSense for the time being. Still, there's lots of new and enhanced productivity and debugging features to check out in this version.
11/04/2016
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Peter shows how to browse a set of objects in an IndexedDB ObjectStore and, along the way, finishes up his TypeScript/IndexedDB utilities for storing and retrieving large amounts of data on the client.
11/02/2016
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By Jason Roberts
Here's how to use SpecFlow to convert plain-text scenario steps into .NET types.
10/31/2016
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An HTML Helper is a bit of Razor code that can be called from multiple places in a View. But, if you put your Helper in the right place, you can also use it from any View in your application.
10/28/2016
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Code Focused
Look behind the curtain on this one, and you'll see that code is quite magical in and of itself.
10/27/2016