Code First is a new development approach in the Entity Framework stack that can simplify the understanding and maintenance of your domain model. In the middle of 2008, Microsoft published the first ...

One of the primary ways to extend SharePoint is to create Web Parts -- the same Web Parts that are used in ASP.NET. But because SharePoint is an application platform built on top of .NET, creating a ...

Transforming a dataset into one with fewer columns is more complicated than it might seem, explains Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research in this full-code, step-by-step machine learning tutorial.

Technology Toolbox: VB .NET, C#, SQL Server 2005, other Check out the XMLA specification at www.xmla.org. Supply-chain applications must often deal in durations: How long does it take to move a ...

Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, SQL Server 2005 SP2, Note: This article uses VB.NET for its samples, but you can find C# and VB.NET versions of the code for this article online. Some programming issues ...

Rather than a product, this preview is described as an "experience" or "control center" that provides a "home" for developers in Windows, aiming to boost productivity and performance for dev-related ...

Microsoft says organizational focus on improving the overall developer experience -- as opposed to traditional developer productivity/velocity measurements -- pays off, according to new research. Sure ...

Microsoft's efforts to improve mobile, Web and cloud application development have captured a great deal of mindshare over the past year. Yet even as Microsoft pushes the boundaries of its developer ...

Microsoft chose the Rust programming language to completely redo its Azure Quantum Development Kit (QDK), noting that it's now 100 times faster, 100 times smaller "and it runs in the browser!" In ...

Are you mystified by all the Azure services Microsoft provides to help developers build .NET apps in the cloud? Sure, building an app with .NET is simple enough, but what happens when it needs to ...

Short, short tip: If you're working in an ASP.NET Core controller you may not have noticed that you have some new methods for generating a response to go back to the client: Ok, Created, NotFound and ...

Microsoft is polishing up a new PowerToys utility to improve the user experience on PowerShell in Windows 10 and 11 by suggesting installations of missing components through WinGet packages. Teased ...