Visual Studio - Debugging Improvements in Visual Studio 2015
Visual Studio 2015 included a large number of improvements for debugging everyday problems. In this article we’ll take a tour of what’s new and how you can be more productive than ever debugging complex problems
Upstart - The Gift of Anger
It's time to embrace your inner idiot, says Krishnan Rangachari. Rather than gnash your teeth at dim-witted colleagues, he says its time to realize that everyone has a thick side.
Compilers - Managed Profile-Guided Optimization Using Background JIT
Background JIT is an optimization technique for managed code that can boost performance by as much as 50 percent and requires little effort to use. This article explores how to use the technology to best effect.
Cutting Edge - The Query Stack of a CQRS Architecture
In the implementation of a modern query stack, the LINQ language backed in the .NET Framework is immensely helpful. Dino Esposito goes through a possible implementation of a read stack where the storage is designed to be close to the organization of data required by the presentation.
C# - Discrete Event Simulation: A Population Growth Example
Discreet event simulation (DES) models a system or process as an ordered sequence of individual events over time, from the time of one event to the time of the next event. This article show how to use C# to create a DES for modeling the growth of a population.
Test Run - Neural Network Regression
Neural network regression is arguably the most powerful form of regression. If you want to explore this potent tool for predicting the values of certain variables based on one or more independent variables, James McCaffrey helps get you get up and running.
Python - Introduction to SciPy Programming for C# Developers
James McCaffrey takes you on a quick tour of programming with SciPy, then walks you through a representative program that uses SciPy to solve a system of linear equations, in order to demonstrate similarities and differences with C# programming.
The Working Programmer - How To Be MEAN: Robust Validation with MongooseJS
How to validate with MongooseJS, a software layer that sits on top of MongoDB and provides not only a schema-like, language-verified validation layer, but also an opportunity to build a layer of “domain object.”
Modern Apps - Parsing CSV Files in UWP Apps
Excel’s implementation of CSV import and export has become the de-facto standard. While most CSV files will fall in line with Excel’s implementation, not every file will. Frank La Vigne introduces a strategy to handle such uncertainty.
Don't Get Me Started - The Internet of Invisible Things
Cortana will be at its best when we hardly notice it at all. As Harry Shum, director of Microsoft Research, put it recently: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is invisible."
Editor's Note - Chasing Fogbank
What happens when technical knowledge is lost? The United States government found out when it realized that it had lost the formula to a critical component for its nuclear stockpile. Are there lessons here for the software world?
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