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  • VS2015 Coming July 20, C++ Features Finalized

    The Visual Studio 2015 team has finalized its implementation of the various C++ 11/14/17 standards that it will support in VS2015RTM. Accompanying these C++ features will be the completion of C99 language support. All of these will be part of production release of VS2015, which is coming in July.

    Jeff Martin
    on Jun 30, 2015

  • Scaling the Stack Overflow Monolithic App by Obsessing Over Performance

    At QCon New York 2015, David Fullerton presented a deep-dive into the monolithic C# / MS SQL architecture that powers the Stack Overflow website, which handles over 4 billion requests per month. Fullerton argued that by focusing on performance, scalability was included ‘almost for free’; and that by minimising the number of external application services, the need to pay ‘SOA tax’ has been avoided.

    Daniel Bryant
    on Jun 21, 2015

  • Newest NLog Improves Exception Logging, Adds JSON/Zip support

    NLog 4.0 has been released, and it brings improved exception logging, adds conditional logging, and support for JSON and Zip archives.

    Jeff Martin
    on Jun 18, 2015

  • Visual Studio Code v0.3: Support for Rust and F# debugging

    Microsoft has released v0.3 of its native Visual Studio application, bringing with it support for Rust, as well as changes to keybindings.

    James Chesters
    on Jun 08, 2015

  • Open Sourced RyuJIT Now Default for 64-Bit .NET

    RyuJIT, Microsoft's next generation 64-bit just-in-time compiler for .NET, is now the default on .NET 4.6. Those upgrading from a RyuJIT CTP to .NET 4.6 should be sure to review settings to ensure that their applications are able to run correctly.

    Jeff Martin
    on Jun 03, 2015

  • C# Futures: Immutable Classes

    In the last of our C# Futures series, we look at proposal 159, which would add compiler support for immutable classes.

    Jonathan Allen
    on Jun 02, 2015

  • WCF is Open Source

    The .NET Foundation has just announced the release of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) as open source. WCF, originally offered in .NET 3.0, offers a high-level abstraction over cross-application communication.

    Jonathan Allen
    on May 20, 2015

  • Microsoft Project Oxford Aims to Bring Intelligence to Apps

    Under the name of Project Oxford, Microsoft has made available a set of RESTful APIs that aim to make it possible for developers to build apps that feature face recognition, speech processing, and other machine learning algorithms. Part of the Azure portfolio, the new APIs are currently in beta and free to use up to 5,000 call per month.

    Sergio De Simone
    on May 12, 2015

  • Deployment in Universal Applications

    While the enterprise deployment scenario remains unsatisfactory, deploying Universal Applications through the Windows Store has improved significantly in Windows 10.

    Jonathan Allen
    on May 11, 2015

  • Microsoft Goes Universal with Astoria, Islandwood, Centennial and Westminster

    In an attempt to bring Android, iOS, classic Windows and web applications on a single platform and make them available through the Windows Store, Microsoft has launched four projects, also knows as Universal Windows Platform Bridges, namely: Astoria, Islandwood, Centennial, and Westminster.

    Abel Avram
    on May 04, 2015

  • Running .NET on Linux and Mac OS X

    The .NET Core runtime has realized the vision of being truly cross-platform with its arrival on Linux and Mac OS X. Last week at Microsoft Build, Microsoft Program Manager Habib Heydarian talked about how this benefits developers and where they can start to explore the new opportunities.

    Jeff Martin
    on May 04, 2015

  • .NET Core Builds Support for FreeBSD

    Developers working on the .NET Core project have added support for the FreeBSD platform. It is now possible run a single .NET assembly across all 4 platforms (Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD).

    Jeff Martin
    on May 04, 2015

  • Reducing Technical Debt with SonarQube and Visual Studio

    Java developers have long been able to use SonarQube to measure and analylize their code base for technical debt. Now C# developers using can benefit from this tool thanks to its improved cooperation with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server.

    Jeff Martin
    on May 01, 2015

  • Deep Dive into Universal Applications

    Developing Universal Applications require an understanding of .NET Native, their “compiler in the cloud” that allows one application to run on a variety of devices with paying for JIT compilation.

    Jonathan Allen
    on Apr 30, 2015

  • Entity Framework 7: New Platforms and New Data Stores

    Entity Framework was created solely for working with relational data on the full version of .NET. In EF 7, neither of those statements is true.

    Jonathan Allen
    on Apr 30, 2015
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