MSDN Magazine

October 2016

Volume 31 Number 10

Cognitive Services - Face and Emotion Recognition in Xamarin.Forms with Microsoft Cognitive Services

Use the new Face and Emotion APIs in Microsoft Cognitive Services to recognize face attributes and emotions in Xamarin.Forms, either by loading existing pictures or taking pictures from the camera.

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Cutting Edge - Event-Command-Saga Approach for Business Logic

Dino Esposito

Dino Esposito presents a .NET-based framework specifically devised to implement the business logic of applications using relatively new concepts such as commands and sagas.

Universal Windows Platform - Working with Memory Limits and Task Priorities in the UWP

Andrew Whitechapel

Learn how system resource management affects Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, and the techniques that you can use to take part in this management and to profile and tune your app.

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Data Points - Run EF Core on Both .NET Framework and .NET Core

Julie Lerman

Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is the newest version of EF and runs equally well on both the full .NET Framework and the cross-platform .NET Core. Julie Lerman walks you through two projects that explore how to use EF Core in APIs and applications that run across both frameworks.

Bing Maps - Create Interactive Geo-Applications Using Bing Maps 8

James McCaffrey

Learn how to build interactive geo-applications with the new Bing Maps 8 library. James McCaffrey presents two Web applications that demonstrate some of its most interesting features, which respectively enable user interaction and allow users to deal with large amounts of data.

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Test Run - ANOVA with C#

James McCaffrey

James McCaffrey explains and shows how to code a classic statistical technique—analysis of variance (ANOVA), which is used to tell if the averages of three or more groups are equal, in situations where you only have sample data.

Mobile DevOps - Transform Source Code to Deployable Artifacts with TFBuild

Kraig Brockschmidt

Kraig Brockschmidt continues his series on Mobile DevOps with a focus on the build/continuous integration stage of the release pipeline, setting up an automated Team Foundation Build with continuous integration for a Xamarin app to demonstrate.

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The Working Programmer - How To Be MEAN: Exploring Yeoman

Ted Neward

Ted Neward examines Yeoman, the ECMAScript scaffolding tool, which serves the same purpose as the project template facility in Visual Studio.

Windows Service - Create a Customizable FileSystemWatcher Windows Service

Diego Ordonez

Learn how to write a Windows service application that monitors file system changes and allows you to easily change the application’s settings simply by updating an XML file and restarting the service.

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Essential .NET - Windows PowerShell Just Keeps Getting Better

Mark Michaelis

Mark Michaelis explores new features that significantly improve Windows PowerShell. These include the addition of cross-platform support (PowerShell now runs on Linux!) and the transition to open source on GitHub.