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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

There's no more important topic than machine learning in the developer space right now as advanced AI constructs like ChatGPT and Microsoft's "Copilot" assistants are transforming the industry. With ...

Rather than a product, this preview is described as an "experience" or "control center" that provides a "home" for developers in Windows, aiming to boost productivity and performance for dev-related ...

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 ...

In an earlier post, I discussed the three objects that Microsoft has provided for calling Web Services: HttpWebRequest, WebClient and HttpClient. At the time, I suggested WebClient was the simplest ...

I've always argued that the only easier way to test your code than using Visual Studio Test is to not test at all. But that doesn't mean that I think Visual Studio Test is perfect. For example, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Starting about a week ago, whenever I opened a solution in Visual Studio, Solution Explorer did not appear. Instead, the right-hand side of the Visual Studio window was completely occupied -- top to ...