Developers on Reddit discussing upgrades from .NET 8 to .NET 10 report few breaking changes, minimal effort, and consistent ...

Distributed systems have long been one of the more complex frontiers in software engineering, often requiring developers to grapple with thorny issues like state management, concurrency, and ...

Test projects give you a way to exercise your code to see if it works but they're also part of your project's "permanent record." If all you want to do is try something out with some throwaway code, C ...

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 ...

Web Parts and User Controls let you easily build customizable UIs with the same tools you use to create inflexible user interfaces -- and implement an MVC-like pattern in ASP.NET. In reporting ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on using the LightGBM tree-based system to perform binary classification (predicting a discrete variable that ...

A free tool to reduce coding for developers who like to surface T-SQL database recordsets in a simple collection of customized POCO objects. Every so often, I find myself wishing that I had a utility ...

You like the idea of using await and async to execute asynchronous methods, and you've got a method that you'd like to turn into an asynchronous method ... but you haven't called any native ...

When I pressed F5 to start debugging and Visual Studio found a compile-time error, nothing irritated me more than the dialog box Visual Studio popped up that asked, "There were build errors. Would you ...

In an IDE AI update, this week we see JetBrains unveiling a new coding agent called Junie just as Microsoft introduced a free tier for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio. The moves are the latest efforts ...

Is the original "AI pair programmer" helping developers be more productive? Several reports seeking to measure the impact of GitHub Copilot -- including one from GitHub itself -- have weighed in on ...

Chances are if you've had many coding interviews you've been presented with a poker problem. Here's a great take from Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research. This article presents C# code for a ...