5 JustCode Features that Improve Visual Studio Development
Peanut butter and Jelly. Mac and Cheese. Oreos and Milk. Yes, each of these ingredients could stand on its own – but why? Some things just go better in pairs. The same could be said about Visual Studio...
View ArticleDebugging with Fiddler by Eric Lawrence (Session Recording)
Fiddler is the world’s most popular web debugging tool, used by developers, testers and other web technologists worldwide. At this year’s TelerikNEXT conference, Eric Lawrence showed off the newest...
View ArticleChoosing a Responsive Framework for Your Next .NET App
“The following is an excerpt from the new whitepaper The Anatomy of Responsive ASP.NET Apps“ There are a multitude of responsive web design (RWD) frameworks available that aim to solve the problem of...
View ArticleKendo UI MVC Scaffolding Vs. Unrealistic Deadlines
You have deadlines and deliverables. Your boss does not understand the intricate complexities of the ASP.NET MVC web application you are building. You get asked for a quick display of a custom data on...
View ArticleCreate a Microsoft Band App with Web Tiles
Wearables are awesome and they are everywhere. Wearables are unique, fashionable, productive and always connected, helping us live a digitized lifestyle. But wearables can also be disruptive in the...
View ArticleTaking Control of Configuration in MVC6
If you’re coming to ASP.NET MVC6 from using prior versions, you’ll quickly begin to realize that things have changed. One of the major changes in this version of MVC is the lack of a Web.Config file....
View ArticleMicrosoft Hates Enterprise Developers?
The changes with Visual Studio 2015 and .NET Core 5, aka vNext, have churned up quite a bit of conversation, but something I overheard recently caught me a bit off guard. The gist of it was that...
View ArticleCRUD with ASP.NET MVC, Web API, EF and Kendo UI (Session Recording)
This session recording from TelerikNEXT was designed for developers working on large-scale data-driven applications. In it, I demonstrate how the Telerik Kendo UI framework seamlessly integrates with...
View ArticleDeveloping ASP.NET 5 Web Apps with Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio .NET – I ♥ U Way back in 2001 I was just out of college and had taken training on ASP – yes you heard it right, Active Server Pages. I got placed in a small company in a small city and I...
View ArticleWindows 10, Chrome 45+, and Silverlight
If you’ve been too busy to keep up on the latest happenings involving Silverlight, there are two recent developments that will affect the Silverlight apps you have in production. As the old saying...
View ArticleTypeScript with Visual Studio 2015
TypeScript is being used everywhere from our own internal projects, like NativeScript and AppBuilder, to adoption by Google in Angular 2. It should come to no surprise that JavaScript is going to be...
View ArticleMVC6 New Project Tour
ASP.NET MVC 6 is a ground up rewrite of the popular .NET web platform. Sweeping changes were made throughout, with even some of the most basic elements being reorganized. These changes are immediately...
View ArticleEssential C# 6 Features You Need to Know!
With the final version of C# 6 having been released, we can seen that a lot of syntax changes have occurred since its inception. Because of this, I’ve noticed that most of the blog posts currently on...
View ArticleBuilding Mobile Apps with Visual Studio (Session Recording)
We’ve all heard about the various ways to build mobile apps such as web vs. hybrid vs. native…but what does that mean for .NET developers who enjoy the rich feature set of Visual Studio? Do we need to...
View ArticleBuilding Touch Apps With UI for WPF (Session Recording)
It’s 2015, and ever since the release of Windows 8, touch is becoming the norm for PC users. PC manufactures are releasing touch-screens for everything, including laptops. This doesn’t mean that you...
View ArticleFighting Against Bloated Software
Today, hard disk space, memory and internet speeds are cheap, but that shouldn’t be an excuse to write bloated software. Not surprisingly, software development tools tend to be the biggest offenders in...
View ArticleCSS Preprocessing with Visual Studio
ASP.NET 5 MVC6 gives breaths new life into web development on the .NET platform. In Visual Studio 2015 with .NET 5, support was added for massively popular package management sources npm and Bower, as...
View ArticleThe Era of Portable .NET
The .NET framework has had quite the journey from conception until today. Yet, every iteration from .NET 1.0 to .NET 4.5, almost invariably required kittens to die, as you painstakingly upgraded your...
View ArticlePodcast: How to be a six figure developer
On this bonus episode of Eat Sleep Code, guest Gaines Kergosien shares his advice on realizing your maximum earning potential as a software developer. Gaines Kergosien @gainesk Gaines Kergosien is an...
View Article.NET Developers – Love Thy Command Line
For the last decade, Windows or .NET developers using Visual Studio have been shielded from the command line. Why do we need command line tools when just about everything needed for app development is...
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