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 ...

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 ...

Idera Inc. announced new suites for managing SQL Servers, providing performance monitoring, automated maintenance, security features and more. Known for its performance monitoring solutions, the ...

Most developers aren't aware that you can write properties that accept parameters, just like a method does. Of course, it isn't often that you need a property that accepts a parameter. One way I ...

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 ...

You'll also need to install Oracle's ODP.NET_Managed_ODAC package. As much as I'd like to pretend that I'm all-knowing but this information comes from Yonayli ...

I amazed a client recently who was looking over my shoulder when I copied a file path from the address in Windows Explorer. Actually, it wasn't copying the path that impressed him -- it was when I ...

There are four Redirect help methods built into your .NET Core Controllers that you can use to tell a client that a resource exists ... but not at this URL. For all these cases, you should also be ...

I have to admit that I've never really understood regular expressions. But if there was any reason that I was going to learn to use them, it would be when doing searches in Visual Studio. For one ...