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When you need to share a list of specific information between asynchronous processes, you probably need the ConcurrentDictionary. Except, of course, when you don't.
03/18/2016
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Here's a nifty tool that can help you get to the heart of issues in your mobile apps that aren't easy to track down.
03/16/2016
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When it's important to know what path your application took when processing data, a log of that path can be helpful. And, when you need to make a decision in your code based on an earlier decision, that internal path can make your code both simpler and easier to understand.
03/14/2016
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If you're creating an asynchronous application (and you should be) you'll be glad to know that .NET offers ways to share data that don't require you to lock up your application.
03/07/2016
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You have a method that's supposed to return some kind of object … except sometimes it doesn't. Good news! There's a design pattern for that.
03/04/2016
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R is the perfect language for creating a variety of chi-square tests, which are used to perform statistical analyses of counts of data. Here's how, with some sample code.
03/02/2016
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The Microsoft Band is one of the most sophisticated fitness and health trackers available today. In this article, Nick walks through building a Windows Phone app that can communicate with it.
03/01/2016
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If you're not worried about control coupling, then your applications probably aren't as loosely coupled as you think they are.
02/26/2016
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By Terrence Dorsey
Web and application accessibility isn't just a nice thing to do. It makes your work available to a bigger world of customers ... and may be a legal requirement for some projects.
02/25/2016
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You can add additional information to any Exception object to help you debug your application when something goes horribly wrong.
02/23/2016
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When classes are more structure than you need, tuples let you specify simple type-safe aggregates of other data types. They'll also let you create a dictionary collection…but it won't be type-safe.
02/22/2016
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The basic functionality of the BlockingCollection makes creating asynchronous applications easy to do. But you need to use some of the BlockingCollection's other tools to create applications that handle typical real-world problems.
02/17/2016
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By Arnaldo Pérez Castaño
We looked at the basic features of functional programming with Visual F#. In this second part, we take it a bit farther and look at creating anonymous functions, pattern matching, and other features of F#.
02/16/2016
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If you need to get back to an earlier place in your code, you don't have to go through every change in between.
02/16/2016
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By Ondrej Balas
ASP.NET Identity is a simple but robust framework allowing you to easily inject custom authentication logic into your applications.
02/15/2016
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By Arnaldo Pérez Castaño
The functional programming paradigm, which has been around for decades, has never gone out of style. In this two-part series, we look at Microsoft's implementation, Visual F#.
02/10/2016
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ServiceStack moves to a complete Web application framework with support for Razor forms.
02/10/2016
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Dividing your application up into simple processes will make it easier to maintain and extend. Using BlockingCollection to communicate between those processes will let you make those processes run asynchronously.
02/08/2016
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Peter revisits an earlier column on how to display a dynamic dialog box to your browser-based users, this time using the JavaScript library that comes with ASP.NET MVC: Backbone.
02/05/2016
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One of the hardest challenges of mobile development is how to minimize the cost of building the same application for multiple platforms. Nick shows how to use Xamarin.Forms to develop a cross-platform application that also targets the Universal Windows Platform.
02/03/2016
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Linear regression was easy, right? Now, let's check out t-test analysis using R.
02/02/2016
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With the right tools, creating an asynchronous application can give you not only a more responsive application that makes better use of your multi-core computer, it can also make your application simpler. Really, asynchronous applications should be your default choice.
02/01/2016
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If you're going to use the BeginForm HtmlHelper then you might as well get it to do the complete job.
01/28/2016
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TypeScript doesn't have the rich set of native collection classes that you're used to in the .NET Framework -- instead, it has just arrays and tuples. Fortunately, you can do quite a lot with them.
01/27/2016
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You want to give the user the ability to select one (or more) items from a table. It's not as easy in ASP.NET MVC as you might like... but it's not awful, either.
01/22/2016