Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET. Microsoft’s Visual Studio is its primary development ...

I first learned about the C# compiler as a service workings way back in 2008 at PDC. At that time, Anders Hejlsberg gave a brief preview of what was to come by showing off a C# ...

In a previous column, I showed how to create a "Hello, World" application that integrated JavaScript functions and C# Blazor methods. However, my Blazor-world and JavaScript-world code didn't interact ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

Take advantage of the new top-level statements in C# 9.0 to eliminate boilerplate code and make your programs more readable, maintainable, and efficient. When writing programs in the C# programming ...

As promised, Microsoft today launched Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6. These new versions are aimed at developers targeting new platforms, including cross-platform mobile development (Android, iOS, ...

At Ignite 2019 today, Microsoft launched Visual Studio Online public preview. Visual Studio Online meshes Visual Studio, cloud-hosted developer environments, and a web-based editor. AI, big data, and ...

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