While some applications will have an easy migration path to .NET Core, especially ones based on ASP.NET MVC, others may run into problems. Not just obvious ones such as porting from WinForms or WPF to Universal Windows Applications (UWP), but subtler issues…

I recently did a tech talk and lab session at our latest internal conference here at Jayway and would like to share a summary of its context here in a blog post. A lot of …

A first-hand look from the .NET engineering teams

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By now, we all know that Entity Framework Core 1.0 will not include several features that we were used to. In this post, I will try to explain how we can get over this by implementing …

Seth Juarez, of Channel 9, interviews Mads Torgersen, product manager of C#, about the development of the next version of the C# language, codenamed C# 7. Alongside a few other features, three major ones are described: pattern matching, tuple syntax and nullable…

An under-the-hood look at the new Routing framework provided as part of ASP.Net Core 1.0

When Google first announced back in late 2014 that major syntax changes would be coming for their popular Angular.js JavaScript framework, the developer community expressed some concerns. "Screw You, Angular" was the title of one widely-shared, and actually…

It’s been an incredible year for the data business at Microsoft and an incredible year for data across the industry. This Thursday at our Data Driven event in New York, we will kick off a wave of launch activities for SQL Server 2016 with general availability…

Often, we need to add custom validation capabilities to our application's form. In this article we're going to explore how to implement custom validators.

Cross site request forgery is one of those attacks which remains enormously effective yet is frequen...

I’ve been at ThoughtWorks for 12 years. Who would have imagined? Instead of writing about my reflections on the past year, I thought I would do something different and post twelve key learnings and observations looking back over my career. I have chosen twelve…

One of the most important aspects of our evolving culture at Microsoft is our deep commitment to building a more diverse and inclusive workforce. If we want to build products and services for everyone on the planet, we need to represent everyone on the planet.…

The value of good software design is economic: you can continue to add new functionality quickly even as the code-base grows in size.

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