Today we are excited to announce the general availability of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new no-cost distribution of OpenJDK that is open source and available for free for anyone to deploy anywhere.  

When we started the Google Code project hosting service in 2006, the world of project hosting was limited. We were worried about reliability and stagnation, so we took action by giving the open source community another option to choose from. Since then, we’ve seen a wide variety of better project hosting services such as GitHub and Bitbucket bloom. Many projects moved away from Google Code to those other systems. To meet developers where they are, we ourselves migrated nearly a thousand of our own open source projects from Google Code to GitHub. 

I just finished teaching the first week of a 9-week, super-intensive, hands-on boot camp that focuses on TypeScript/ASP.NET Web API/AngularJS. I decided to write a series of blog posts that describes each week of the camp. Who makes it. The challenges the students encounter. And, the material that we cover 

However, at the end of the day, it's good to remember that your initial regex along the lines of [a-z0-9.-]+@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z0-9]+ is quite simply... wrong. 

In this article, we are going to see how we can create a custom ModelValidatorProvider that validates models based upon the rules specified in the xml files and works side-by-side with the other built-in validator providers. 

RigaDevDays for the first time hosted .NET track in 2018 and eventually got very good feedback and appraisal from participants. So we publish 5 the most highly rated of these awesome talks. 

Anyone can write software, but it takes a seasoned developer to write decoupled software. Today, I cover the definition of loose coupling, how to detect it, and ways to improve your code. 

We are very pleased to announce the general availability of .NET Core 2.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift platforms!