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By Terrence Dorsey
From legacy xBase code to cutting-edge Quantum computing, these Visual Studio extensions will make you more productive.
01/23/2019
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses a full project code sample and screenshots to detail how to use Python to work with self-organizing maps (SOM), which let you investigate the structure of a set of data.
01/15/2019
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Here's everything you need to write code for the Session object in ASP.NET Core -- including why you can't expect to migrate your existing ASP.NET MVC application to ASP.NET MVC Core (though Peter has some suggestions on easing that pain).
01/14/2019
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Amazingly, at least one thing is easier in ASP.NET Core than it is in ASP.NET: Adding your own functionality to the ASP.NET Core processing pipeline.
01/11/2019
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You can still bundle scripts to save download time but, in ASP.NET MVC Core, it's more about configuration than code.
01/10/2019
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It's not always obvious, but sometimes the Watch window isn't always showing you the latest data. Here's how to tell and what you can do about it (sort of).
01/09/2019
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Good news for .NET Core developers: There's a package that gives Entity Framework Core the lazy loading capabilities that your existing applications may be using. Or may not be using -- you might not know, which is the real problem.
01/08/2019
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If you know how to create an ASP.NET MVC View, you know a great deal about how to create pages in Blazor. But, by packaging up pages as Blazor Components, you can use (and re-use) those pages more like objects.
01/07/2019
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Central to ASP.NET Core is the collection of objects that give you access to ASP.NET Core functionality. Here's how to access it, how to add to it and an example of how to use this technology with the "difficult" cases.
01/04/2019
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By Chris Sainty
Templated components expose customizable sections via parameters, and consumers then pass in their own templates for these sections that the component will use when rendering. They make it really easy to create some high-level reusable components, especially when incorporating generics.
01/03/2019
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Creating a custom image classification model is challenging, but the existence of neural network libraries like Keras has made it doable. Here's how, with many code samples and a full project download.
01/02/2019
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The success of VS Code -- along with the evolution of the open source, cross-platform .NET Core -- provides the signature theme of 2018 in the Microsoft developer ecosystem.
12/19/2018
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If you're a programmer then you know that you frequently get things wrong. Sometimes you find those bugs before your application gets to production ... and sometimes you don't. Bad news: Nothing is going to help and it's not going to get any better.
12/17/2018
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By default, tests in the new .NET Core testing framework (xUnit) are isolated. This is a good thing ... except when you need to create a single test environment that is used by multiple tests. Here's all the ways you can provide a single environment for a set of tests in xUnit.
12/13/2018
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There's a new testing framework in town. Here's how to use it.
12/11/2018
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Here's a tool to help you integrate Blazor and JavaScript by passing HTML elements defined in Blazor to JavaScript functions.
12/06/2018
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Sometimes the easiest solution isn't the best one. Here's an architectural approach to building Blazor pages that also makes it easy to combine the worlds of JavaScript and Blazor.
12/04/2018
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Eric Vogel provides many code samples to show how to use Entity Framework Core for an ASP.NET Core MVC application.
11/29/2018
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If you want to know what your next call to SaveChanges is going to do to your database then you want to use Entity Framework's ChangeTracker.
11/27/2018
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There's a new kid in the Visual Studio testing environment, though it's only for your .NET Core projects. You don't have to use it, but here are some reasons you'll want to.
11/26/2018
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If you're testing for exceptions using ExpectedException, you have a better alternative.
11/16/2018
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Custom sentiment analysis is hard, but neural network libraries like Keras with built-in LSTM (long, short term memory) functionality have made it feasible. Step into the Data Science Lab with Dr. McCaffrey to find out how, with full code examples.
11/15/2018
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Odds are that, when you stop on some breakpoint, you want to check the value in some variables. Here's how to get Visual Studio to display those values for you.
11/13/2018
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Here's how to add headers or modify the content of requests and responses in the ASP.NET pipeline's modules and handlers.
11/05/2018
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Not only can you integrate JavaScript with Blazor, that integration provides a strategy for moving your existing pages to Blazor without having to rewrite your existing JavaScript code.
11/02/2018