Practical .NET
When you hit a breakpoint in Visual Studio, everything stops. If you'd rather other processes keep running, you can enable that.
12/20/2016
Practical .NET
There's more (and some less) in Entity Framework Core compared to Entity Framework 6, at least in version 1.0. While you can move to Entity Framework Core now, it might be too early for you.
12/19/2016
Mobile Corner
Saving and retrieving data is a fundamental part of all but the simplest of applications. In this article, Nick walks through getting started using Entity Framework with SQLite to persist application data.
12/15/2016
In-Depth
From Visual Studio Live! in Orlando, Microsoft's Tim Sneath offered an extensive look inside the next-generation development platform.
12/15/2016
Code Focused
Hashwords can use a pinch of salt for added security. There's a .NET class for that.
12/15/2016
Cross-Platform C#
It's relatively simple to make use of the multi-window mode now that Xamarin supports it. Here's how.
12/14/2016
Practical .NET
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
Practical ASP.NET
Document databases are a form of NoSQL database that may store all of the information for a given object in a single instance in the database.
12/12/2016
Practical .NET
Every once in a while you'll need to use the LINQ Join to get the data you want.
12/12/2016
News
The Azure developer exam discounts are part of a broader initiative by the Microsoft Partner Network to narrow the Azure deployment and development skills gap.
12/09/2016
News
Amazon and Microsoft are anticipating the serverless computing space to heat up, with support and developer tools.
12/09/2016
Code Focused
Sometimes the default view of objects in the debugger isn't enough, especially if you operate on complex data structures. Here's one way to alter the view and use a customized one.
12/08/2016
News
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
The Data Science Lab
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
Visual Studio Toolbox
We've gathered together the newest project templates, security tools and generally useful extensions for Visual Studio.
12/06/2016