I first learned about the C# compiler as a service workings way back in 2008 at PDC. At that time, Anders Hejlsberg gave a brief preview of what was to come by showing off a C# ...

Probit ("probability unit") regression is a classical machine learning technique that can be used for binary classification -- predicting an outcome that can only be one of two discrete values. For ...

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Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

More and more applications are being built on web technologies, from familiar web apps and services, to Electron-hosted JavaScript, to a new generation of stand-alone progressive web applications. The ...

Last month, Microsoft announced the release of Visual Studio for Mac: a full-featured development environment to help developers on the Mac create apps, games, and services for mobile, cloud, and web.

As promised, Microsoft today launched Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6. These new versions are aimed at developers targeting new platforms, including cross-platform mobile development (Android, iOS, ...

Take advantage of anonymous types in C# to create and instantiate types that have read-only properties without having to declare the type beforehand An anonymous type is a type that doesn’t have a ...