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 ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...

To speed development, Visual Studio now has additional code refactoring capabilities, including IntelliSense code snippets and intelligent helpers. Hundreds of components and classes inside the .Net ...

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The theme of Ballmer's keynote address was integration, but it was the move by a fictitious coffee company to integrate a recent application and set up the infrastructure for a promotion campaign that ...

In a dramatic shift, Microsoft takes a big step into open source, with the aim of spreading Microsoft development across iOS, Android, OS X, and Linux Microsoft’s long and contentious relationship ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In addition to announcing that .NET is going open source and ...