Microsoft announced a "special invitation with a" "sweet offer" to developers attending the upcoming Visual Studio Live! developer conference in Las Vegas, headlined by the company's expert developers ...

One of SharePoint Portal Server's selling points is that it provides broad customization at all levels, from a corporation's home page down to a single user's personal page. Without having to write ...

This month I'm writing about an issue I've found myself helping people with frequently of late: problems with related classes defined in Code First and then, in most cases, used in the ...

Microsoft's Mads Kristensen took to social media to ask developers about their "pet peeves" with Visual Studio and got an earful in reply. The principal program manager on the Visual Studio team is ...

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.

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on an implementation of the technique that emphasizes simplicity and ease-of-modification over robustness and ...

Microsoft finally shipped v1.0 of its Azure Quantum Development Kit (QDK) after last year changing directions and using the Rust programming language for a re-write. It's been a long road, as the kit ...

Securing microservices can feel like herding cats, and in the dynamic world of .NET 8 the challenge of ensuring robust security looms large as developers embrace the agility and flexibility of this ...

New research on the effect of AI-powered GitHub Copilot on software development cites some adverse results. The "Coding on Copilot" whitepaper from GitClear sought to investigate the quality and ...

This tooling comes in the Extension Pack for Java. Microsoft's January 2024 update post says the dev team has almost completed its integration of support for JDK 21, which shipped September 2023. The ...

Microsoft's' string of productivity improvements in Visual Studio 2022 over the past year have continued in v17.9 Preview 3, shipped last week. That preview enhances search functionality, specifically ...

The concept of "write once, run anywhere" has long been a dream of developers. Supporting an application across multiple platforms and devices, without having to rewrite and maintain it, is something ...