Microsoft used the Visual Studio Live! keynote at its Redmond headquarters to unveil the future of its flagship IDE, ...

The update includes a new XAML Source Generator for .NET MAUI and PipeReader support in System.Text.Json. The release also ...

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Learn what Project Orleans, an open-source, cross-platform framework from Microsoft for building distributed, scalable, and ...

Practical ASP.NET Never Lock Records in Web Applications! Never! That Means You! Seriously, don't. Here are two reasons why record locking is simply a bad idea. By Peter Vogel 07/23/2008 Here's a ...

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 ...

It isn't news that developers don't like documenting their code. But you have good reason not to. And if you are documenting code, try to stop! It's not too late.

New research on the effect of AI-powered GitHub Copilot on software development cites some adverse results. The "Coding on Copilot" whitepaper from GitClear sought to investigate the quality and ...

"The gap between C# and Java never has been so small," says the latest edition of the TIOBE Index of programming language popularity. "Currently, the difference is only 1.2 percent, and if the trends ...

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The main advantage of using PCA for anomaly detection, compared to alternative techniques such as a neural autoencoder, is simplicity -- assuming you have a function that computes eigenvalues and ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full demo of k-nearest neighbors classification on mixed numeric and categorical data. Compared to other classification techniques, k-NN is easy to ...