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.

The Microsoft Synchronization Services 1.0 API for SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition and the new Sync Designer in the Orcas March 2007 CTP team up to generate a local data cache that synchronizes ...

Visual Basic 2008 (aka VB9) introduces a host of new features, including extension methods, Language Integrated Query (LINQ), anonymous types, and lambda expressions, to name just a few. I've covered ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can use various techniques for working with user controls in .NET that involve complex and time-intensive rendering. The primary one I present gives you the capability to pass a user control from ...

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'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 ...

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 ...