Did .NET MAUI Ship Too Soon? Devs Sound Off on 'Massive Mistake'

Microsoft recently advanced .NET MAUI to General Availability status, but many developers have complained about half-baked functionality that was shipped too soon. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 2 years ago

Runs Testing Using C# Simulation

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses a full code program for a step-by-step explanation of this machine learning technique that indicates if patterns are random. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 2 years ago

Visual Studio 2022 17.3 Preview 2 Is First Native Arm64 Release

As promised at the recent Build developer conference, Visual Studio 2022 17.3 Preview 2 is now available as a native Arm64 application on Windows 11. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 2 years ago

Microsoft Won't Do Drag-and-Drop for Blazor

Don't look for Microsoft to provide drag-and-drop functionality for Blazor, though it can still be done via JavaScript interop. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 2 years ago

How to Create a Transformer Architecture Model for Natural Language Processing

The goal is to create a model that accepts a sequence of words such as 'The man ran through the {blank} door' and then predicts most-likely words to fill in the blank. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 2 years ago

OpenSilver v1.0 Arrives as Microsoft Ends Silverlight Support

Userware, on a years-long mission to provide an open source alternative to Microsoft Silverlight, shipped OpenSilver 1.0 just as Microsoft ended support for the popular web-dev tool. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 3 years ago

A Decade Later, .NET Developers Still Fear Being 'Silverlighted' by Microsoft

Some 10 years after the final Microsoft Silverlight release, some developers still fear being 'Silverlighted,' or seeing a development product in which they have invested heavily be abandoned by Microsoft. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 3 years ago

So Why Doesn't Microsoft Provide Its Own Blazor Component Library?

Did you ever wonder why Microsoft doesn't provide a component library for Blazor, like Angular and others do? | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 3 years ago

'Modern Visual Basic' Mercury Language Debuts

RemObjects has debuted the Mercury programming language, described as a modern Visual Basic 'with a future' for all platforms. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 3 years ago

Pylance Now Default Language Server for Python in Visual Studio Code

Pylance is now the default language server for Python in Visual Studio Code, providing IntelliSense functionality as of the May 2021 release of the Python Extension for VS Code. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 3 years ago

Microsoft's New Programming Language for Excel Now Turing Complete

Microsoft, which calls its Excel spreadsheet a programming language, reports that an effort called LAMBDA to make it even more of a programming language is paying off, recently being deemed Turing complete. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 3 years ago

Death of the Dev Machine?

Here's a takeaway from this week's Ignite 2020 event: An advanced Azure cloud portends the death of the traditional, high-powered dev machine packed with computing, memory and storage components. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 4 years ago

Microsoft: 'We Are Finished with F# 5'

While highlighting new development work on Microsoft's F# programming language alongside the latest .NET 5 preview, the company announced that, except for one minor enhancement, 'we are finished with F# 5!' | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 4 years ago

.NET 5 Now 'Feature Complete' with Preview 8, Go Live Release Candidates Up Next

The milestone .NET 5.0 release is now feature complete with the new Preview 8, Microsoft announced, with a couple of go-live release candidates on tap ahead of the official November ship date. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 4 years ago

Mercury Is Latest 3rd-Party Visual Basic Effort: 'Multiplatform VB++'

Notwithstanding Microsoft's death knell for Visual Basic, a new project scheduled to debut this fall aims to keep at least some semblance of the iconic programming language going and evolving. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 4 years ago

Remote Development Productivity at Microsoft: 'No Lunchtime Dip'

So what happens to productivity when an enterprise shifts its software development to a remote, work-from-home scheme? Having made the switch a few weeks ago, Microsoft mined its internal data to find out. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 4 years ago

Microsoft: 'We Do Not Plan to Evolve Visual Basic as a Language'

In its move to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core, Microsoft will support Visual Basic in the upcoming .NET 5 and is expanding the programming language's supported application types to help VB developers migrate their code, but noted 'we do not plan to evolve Visual Basic … | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 4 years ago

GitHub Project Provides 300-Plus Samples of Asp.net Core/Blazor Fundamentals

A GitHub project providing more than 300 code samples to illustrate ASP.NET Core fundamentals has amassed more than 4,000 stars. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 4 years ago

Microsoft: Move from Traditional Asp.net to 'Core' Requires 'Heavy Lifting'

There are plenty of reasons to move traditional ASP.NET web apps -- part of the old .NET Framework -- to the new cross-platform direction, ASP.NET Core, but beware it will require some 'heavy lifting,' Microsoft says. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 4 years ago

Up Next: .NET 5

Now that Microsoft has shipped .NET Core 3.1, the next stop on the .NET Core roadmap is just plain old .NET 5 with no 'Core' and no 'Framework' -- it's all just .NET from here on. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 4 years ago

No More .NET Framework APIs Will Be Ported to .NET Core, Microsoft Says

The old, proprietary, Windows-only .NET Framework has given all it can give to the new cross-platform, open-source platform of the future, .NET Core. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 5 years ago

.Net Core Is 'Most Loved' Framework in Stack Overflow Survey

Stack Overflow's huge annual developer survey is known for asking respondents what tools they most love, dread and want, and the new 2019 report identifies Microsoft's .NET Core as the 'most loved' non-Web framework. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 5 years ago

Working with Session in ASP.NET MVC Core (or: Why You Can't Migrate)

Here's everything you need to write code for the Session object in ASP.NET Core -- including why you can't expect to migrate your existing ASP.NET MVC application to ASP.NET MVC Core (though Peter has some suggestions on easing that pain). | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 5 years ago

2018: When VS Code Eclipsed Visual Studio IDE

The success of VS Code -- along with the evolution of the open source, cross-platform .NET Core -- provides the signature theme of 2018 in the Microsoft developer ecosystem. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 5 years ago

ASP.NET Core Ditching .NET Framework, Will Be 'Part of .NET Core' Going Forward

Microsoft said that going forward, ASP.NET Core will only run on the NET Core 3.0 platform, not the traditional 16-year-old .NET Framework. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 6 years ago

18 New Tools and Extensions for Visual Studio – Visual Studio Magazine

We've got a new round-up of tools covering security code analysis, code generators, console apps and command-line arguments. | Continue reading


@visualstudiomagazine.com | 6 years ago