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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
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This might sound like the stupidest tip in the world … but hear it out. There are actually cases where you don't want your methods to appear in your class's IntelliSense list. Well, OK: one case.
01/21/2016
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You don't ever have to write a complicated LINQ/Entity Framework query, but you do need to know when to call the ToList method on your query. Here's a tip on both.
01/19/2016
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Now that you've got a good sense of how to "speak" R, let's use it with linear regression to make distinctive predictions.
01/18/2016
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Sometimes you want to look at two parts of the same file at the same time. Here are two ways to do that.
01/14/2016
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Developers (including you) benefit when you provide a string representation of your class. By implementing IFormattable, you can take control of this representation and provide some flexibility. Besides, if you don't provide one, the Microsoft .NET Framework will provide a useless one for you.
01/13/2016
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Like a mobile force, Xamarin 4 awakens. So upgrade now, especially if you're a Visual Studio developer and building apps for iOS.
01/11/2016
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With the Universal Windows Platform, developers can target a wide variety of devices with a single application, but it comes with performance ramifications. We look at ways to make those apps more efficient and highly performant.
01/08/2016
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By Eric Vogel
For this first in a series, Eric Vogel checks out the new IReadOnlyCollection Stack and Queue implementations in .NET Framework 4.6.
01/07/2016
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If you find that Entity Framework works fine with your Oracle database in test but fails in production then you're probably missing one of these packages.
01/05/2016