One of the primary ways to extend SharePoint is to create Web Parts -- the same Web Parts that are used in ASP.NET. But because SharePoint is an application platform built on top of .NET, creating a ...

Transforming a dataset into one with fewer columns is more complicated than it might seem, explains Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research in this full-code, step-by-step machine learning tutorial.

Technology Toolbox: VB .NET, C#, SQL Server 2005, other Check out the XMLA specification at www.xmla.org. Supply-chain applications must often deal in durations: How long does it take to move a ...

Microsoft's Mads Kristensen took to social media to ask developers about their "pet peeves" with Visual Studio and got an earful in reply. The principal program manager on the Visual Studio team is ...

Short, short tip: If you're working in an ASP.NET Core controller you may not have noticed that you have some new methods for generating a response to go back to the client: Ok, Created, NotFound and ...

Microsoft is polishing up a new PowerToys utility to improve the user experience on PowerShell in Windows 10 and 11 by suggesting installations of missing components through WinGet packages. Teased ...

In the .NET Framework 4.0 or earlier, you have to set the culture for each thread individually. At the very least, this meant setting the CurrentThread object's CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture ...

Every once in a while, you have a file open in one of your Visual Studio tabs and the file is updated on the disk. Unlike when any unopened files/folders in Solution Explorer are changed, Visual ...

There are four Redirect help methods built into your .NET Core Controllers that you can use to tell a client that a resource exists ... but not at this URL. For all these cases, you should also be ...

I have to admit that I've never really understood regular expressions. But if there was any reason that I was going to learn to use them, it would be when doing searches in Visual Studio. For one ...

If you do anything at all with file path, you need the Path class (in the System.IO namespace). The methods on the Path class that you're most likely to use include: GetTempFileName: Doesn't just ...

You can use various techniques for working with user controls in .NET that involve complex and time-intensive rendering. The primary one I present gives you the capability to pass a user control from ...