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If you run an automated test and your test fails then you want to know that it's your fault -- not a problem in someone else's code or the result of a change in your test data. Moq lets you do that in two lines of code, even if your code uses the ASP.NET Session object.
12/13/2016
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Every once in a while you'll need to use the LINQ Join to get the data you want.
12/12/2016
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By Michael Domingo
Amazon and Microsoft are anticipating the serverless computing space to heat up, with support and developer tools.
12/09/2016
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By Michael Domingo
Following the RC release of 2.1 nearly a month ago, the final version adds a few more tweaks to smooth the coding experience.
12/07/2016
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I predict you'll find this logistic regression example with R to be helpful for gleaning useful information from common binary classification problems.
12/07/2016
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By Terrence Dorsey
We've gathered together the newest project templates, security tools and generally useful extensions for Visual Studio.
12/06/2016
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If you're using Skip and Take in LINQ to page through your data, a tweak to your syntax can cut your response time by as much as 10 percent as you page through your data.
12/06/2016
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Microsoft's Tim Sneath explains how the Visual Studio team stripped Visual Studio down to the chassis and worked its way up from there to build the next-generation IDE and toolset.
12/06/2016
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If you care about data typing and want to avoid null/undefined errors, there's a lot you're going to like in TypeScript 2.0. And, if you like creating general purpose functions that can work with a variety of classes, there's something here for you, too.
12/05/2016
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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