C# 7 Features with Mads Torgersen 

Understanding HashSet in C# with Examples  

Using source control (1 of 5) | Getting started with GitHub

Welcome to the Getting started with GitHub series, where you will learn how to share your code from within Visual Studio by using Git and GitHub. In this episode, Robert shows how to add a solution to source control. 

Ready to get started with Visual Studio 2017? This is your course! Join the experts and get the details, from installation to debugging, in this practical Visual Studio 2017 deep dive.

See how to download and install Visual Studio in standalone and networked environments, along with some of the configuration options, such as choosing your workloads (types of apps or services, languages, and platforms), customizing the installation, and installing language packs. Then, take a tour of the Visual Studio IDE, including all the basics you need to get started with your development projects. Finally, explore debugging in Visual Studio, and learn how to use its features to investigate problems in your code.

New In-Memory OLTP improvements in CTP3.1 include:

• Unique indexes in memory-optimized tables, to complement the support for unique constraints that was released in CTP3
• LOB data types varchar(max), nvarchar(max), and varbinary(max) in memory-optimized tables and natively compiled modules
• Indexes with NULLable key columns in memory-optimized tables

Syntax inputdate AT TIME ZONE timezone.

• Inputdate: An expression that can be resolved to a smalldatetime, datetime, datetime2, or datetimeoffset value.
• Timezone: Name of the destination time zone in standard format as enumerated by Windows. Available time zones can be found by querying sys.time_zone_info.
  

SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) updates allow upgrading your existing models to 1200 compatibility level and a JSON editor for SSDT;

 [ServiceContract]
    public interface ISampleService
    {
        [OperationContract]
        int Sum( int number1, int number2 );

        [OperationContract]
        float Sum( float number1, float number2 );
    }

   public class SampleService : ISampleService
    {
        public int Sum( int number1, int number2 )
        {
            return number1 + number1;
        }

        public float Sum( float number1, float number2 )
        {
            return number1 + number1;
        }
    }

[ServiceContract]
    public interface ISampleService
    {
        [OperationContract( Name = "SumByIntNumbers" )]
        int Sum( int number1, int number2 );

        [OperationContract( Name = "SumByFloatNumbers" )]
        float Sum( float number1, float number2 );
    }

This post shows how to import and export .xls or .xlsx (Excel files) in ASP.NET Core. And when thinking about dealing with excel with .NET, we always look for third-party libraries or component. And one of the most popular .net library that reads and writes Excel 2007/2010 files using the Open Office Xml format (xlsx) is EPPlus. However, at the time of writing this post, this library is not updated to support .NET Core. But there exists an unofficial version of this library EPPlus.Core which can do the job of import and export xlsx in ASP.NET Core. This works on Windows, Linux and Mac. 

 There are many ways to become a programmer beside getting a computer science degree. If you’re on that less conventional path, you may be wondering what you should do to catch up to people who do have a degree. How can you compete with someone who spent many years in a classwork learning about computers and programming?