In this episode, Robert is joined by Nick Landry, who shows us how to integrate Cortana into apps. Among the topics Nick covers and shows are voice commands, speech recognition and synthesis, background voice commands and continuous dictation.

This project contains the C# 101 LINQ Samples rewritten to Kotlin. Like the existing Java LINQ Examples, Kotlin examples run and have their results displayed inside an Android App courtesy of the rich support for Kotlin in Android Studio. 

 With the new Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update comes a feature called “Just My Code” for JavaScript, which can speed up your debugging experience by allowing you to focus on debugging your own code, and not library or framework code. In this post, I’ll walk through how this works

Learn how you can save time by creating your own reusable .NET Core templates in just a few steps.

Do you ever develop prototypes, or starter projects/accelerators, that you’d like to use again in the future? A good way to do that is by creating custom templates for dotnet. Once completed, anytime you want to create a new project of that type in the future, you can key in “dotnet new ” and you’re off, complete with correct namespaces. You can even do conditional checks, or variable replacements. 

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. 

protected override void OnException(ExceptionContext filterContext)
{
    // Bail if we can't do anything
    if (filterContext == null)
        return;

    // log
    var ex = filterContext.Exception ??
            new Exception("No further information exists.");
    // save log ex.Message
    
    filterContext.ExceptionHandled = true;

    filterContext.Result = View("ViewName");
    base.OnException(filterContext);
}

protected void Application_Error(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var error = Server.GetLastError();
    var code = (error is HttpException) ? (error as HttpException).GetHttpCode() : 500;

    if (code != 404)
    {
        // save log error.Message
    }

    Response.Clear();
    Server.ClearError();

    string path = Request.Path;
    Context.RewritePath(string.Format("~/Errors/Http{0}", code), false);
    IHttpHandler httpHandler = new MvcHttpHandler();
    httpHandler.ProcessRequest(Context);
    Context.RewritePath(path, false);
}

public class ErrorsController : Controller
{
    [HttpGet]
    public ActionResult Http404()
    {
        Response.StatusCode = 404;
        return View();
    }

    [HttpGet]
    public ActionResult Http500()
    {
        Response.StatusCode = 500;
        return View();
    }
}

In this guide, we will describe how to meet the expectations of performance-sensitive applications, explain the relevant parts of Angular change detection, and highlight potential pitfalls along the way. 

The ASP.NET Core tag helpers improve on the HTML templated helpers in ASP.NET MVC 5. ASP.NET Core comes with some useful stock tag helpers for common tasks such as creating custom elements or extending existing HTML elements, but their use can be extended to making a framework such as Bootstrap easier to work with. Dino shows how helpers are used, and demonstrates a Bootstrap Modal Tag Helper 

Cryptography has crept into everything, from web browsers and email programs to cell phones, bank cards, cars and even into medical implants. Thus, an increasing number of people have to understand how crypto schemes work and how they can be used in practice. We wanted to create a book that teaches modern applied cryptography to readers with a technical background but without an education in pure mathematics.