News
SharePoint 2016 and add-in development support are highlights of this release that allows Visual Studio developers to customize Microsoft Office.
04/28/2016
News
Providers for Oracle, MySQL, PostgresSQL, SQLite 5.5, and DB 2.0 can now work with Entity Framework Core 1.0 RC1.
04/28/2016
Cross-Platform C#
Add pressure-based interactions in your apps in just a few minutes.
04/27/2016
News
Slew of announcements from the company at its Evolve 16 event in Florida include a bevy of solutions to help developers connect to Macs to create native iOS apps.
04/27/2016
News
Microsoft Learning is providing early warning to exam takers that the cost of taking MCP exams, including exams for obtaining the developer-based titles, will go up worldwide at mid-year.
04/26/2016
Modern C++
Too few C++ developers use const properly, or enough. A seemingly-strange guideline, suggesting you never use a particular language feature, leads to some insight about const and some good practices for you.
04/26/2016
Practical TypeScript
The JSX tool lets you describe your page as a set of custom elements that you define in TypeScript classes. Those elements then add to the page whatever text or code makes sense to you.
04/25/2016
You're just one click away from using Windows Explorer with the files in your project or the individual file in your editor window.
04/21/2016
In-Depth
What you can do with most programming languages can be accomplished in F#'s functional programming paradigm. Here's how to handle some simple operations, which might look familiar to you already.
04/20/2016
Practical .NET
The ConcurrentDictionary provides the most efficient (and safest) way to shared named values between asynchronous processes with several powerful methods. But the best advice might be to avoid ever needing them.
04/20/2016
News
Latest updates allows more incremental improvements to work items, such as alerts for keeping up with them and ability to move between projects, as well as the simple act of changing their types.
04/19/2016
In-Depth
It's time to take a break. Have you seen Silicon Valley? It's a comedy, but the depiction of a developer startup hits very close to the bone.
04/19/2016
Modern C++
Whether you're new to C++ or a seasoned C++ coder, there are times when deciding how to do something seems arbitrary. The C++ Core Guidelines have been written to guide developers of all experience levels through some of the choices we make to help us write code that is fast, readable, maintainable, and sensible.
04/19/2016
Practical .NET
Using the Stream objects correctly can speed up your I/O, protect your files and simplify your code.
04/15/2016
News
The online cross-platform editor is now a finished product, now that the company has appended its name with a version 1.0.
04/14/2016