This is something that I'm pretty familiar with as I was a self-taught software developer myself.

And in this video, I'm going to tell you why it's better to become self-taught rather than going to college for software development, and how you can do this. 

A common question from customers is how to have an RPC (as in .NET Remoting and Windows Communication Foundation) experience on .NET Core. We are contributing to the gRPC (grpc.io) project to ensure gRPC will have first-class support for .NET developers. 

ReactOS is an open source alternative to the Windows operation system. Even if the first version of ReactOS dates back to 1998, there is still no 'stable' version of ReactOS. May be, the most important reason is a lack of attention

Ever wondered how JWT came to be and what problems it was designed to tackle? Are you curious about the plethora of algorithms available for signing and encrypting JWTs? Or are you interested in getting up-to-speed with JWTs as soon as possible? Then this handbook is for you. 

WebSocket is real-time communication protocol we can use to make UI in browser to send and receive messages from server over real-time communication channel. WebSocket is also supported by ASP.NET Core. This blog post demonstrates how to build simple browser based chat room on ASP.NET Core and WebSocket. 

When a client sends data to your web API, often you want to validate the data before doing any processing. This article shows how to annotate your models, use the annotations for data validation, and handle validation errors in your web API. 

Microsoft continues to focus on enabling developers to do amazing work as businesses and industries transform in support of the shift to a cloud-first, mobile-first world. At Build 2016 we will present the latest tools and technologies and how they can help today's developers be their most creative and productive.  

When you’re dealing with complex and structured data, you need to determine whether the data is valid or not. JSON-Schema is the standard of JSON documents that describes the structure and the requirements of your JSON data. In this two-part series, you’ll learn how to use JSON-Schema to validate data. 

Now you can upgrade any .NET application to the latest version of .NET inside of Visual Studio! We are happy to introduce it as a Visual Studio extension and will upgrade your .NET Framework or .NET Core web- and desktop apps. In this video, Olia shows you how to get the extension and start to update your projects to the latest version of NET in minutes.