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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many teams today use Agile techniques such as Test-Driven Development (TDD), eXtreme Programming or just a heavy use of unit testing to verify functionality. One of the gaps in unit testing is the ...

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 ...

At Build 2023, Microsoft revealed updates for Dev Box, a cloud-based developer workstation service. At this week's conference, the company revealed that Dev Box will emerge from preview into ...

Microsoft's dev team for Java on Azure tooling announced support for the Azure OpenAI Service and associated Playground, enabling new AI-based scenarios based on advanced tech from Microsoft partner ...

Microsoft chose the Rust programming language to completely redo its Azure Quantum Development Kit (QDK), noting that it's now 100 times faster, 100 times smaller "and it runs in the browser!" In ...

What's an Azure cloud dev to do for messaging in that fancy new app? From messages to events, from streams to publish and subscribe, the options seem overwhelming. What's an Event Grid? How does that ...

Microsoft is polishing up a new PowerToys utility to improve the user experience on PowerShell in Windows 10 and 11 by suggesting installations of missing components through WinGet packages. Teased ...