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.

Technology Toolbox: VB .NET, C#, SQL Server 2005, other Check out the XMLA specification at www.xmla.org. Supply-chain applications must often deal in durations: How long does it take to move a ...

Short, short tip: If you're working in an ASP.NET Core controller you may not have noticed that you have some new methods for generating a response to go back to the client: Ok, Created, NotFound and ...

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 ...

In the .NET Framework 4.0 or earlier, you have to set the culture for each thread individually. At the very least, this meant setting the CurrentThread object's CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture ...

In another column, I describe how you can, from JavaScript, call methods on C# objects defined in Blazor pages. As that sentence implies, however, there's no way to access properties on those objects ...

Often after I've cut or pasted some text, I find that my code isn't formatted correctly any more. As long as your code is syntactically correct (i.e. no stray brackets or End Ifs without matching Ifs) ...

Eight-five percent of all application development is spent on existing systems, with existing databases. If you want to use Entity Framework's code-first development (where the database schema is an ...

If you have change tracking turned on in Visual Studio, then you'll be getting highlights in the right-hand margin of your editor window flagging the condition of lines in the current file. If you're ...

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 ...